The second and third place runners were disqualified for stepping out of their lane during the curve portion. what a horrible time to make a mistake, particularly for the second place finisher who easily would have been second without the mis step anyways.
It took 16 years, but the record was shattered, twice, by the Pakistani Hulk - Arshad Nadeem! 🇵🇰 Thor-kildsen always made it look so easy. A legend of our game!
This 100m final came 3 days after Lezak chased down Bernard in that historic 4x100 relay. Credit to Bernard for rebounding & winning gold here after the letdown in the relay. Bernard went 46.73 in that relay, he was just beat by the superhuman 46.06 effort by Lezak .
Still coming back to this race from time to time after all these years. I was screaming at my TV in the middle of the night during the last 15 meters. Her finish was insane.
When you look at the Olympics now all of these guys are an inch close to each other… This was something else!!! Massive respect to this guy he still owns this!
these make me so nostalgic. I remember being a little girl hovering over my box tv with quiet volume so my parents didn’t wake up. i used to dream of being on of these swimmers. the sound of the cheering, the announcer, that noise they hear before they hit the water. nothing matches it. i don’t aspire to be a swimmer anymore but i love watching these, specifically 2008 because of the nostalgia..
