That would involve them actually rooting FOR the USA.

Try making a post about supporting OTHER countries teams. You'll probably get a better response. Oh wait....

Good Luck!

I haven't got airborne off the couch like that since USC beat Notre Dame in 2005. My wife and I were hooting and hollering our way through Lezak's final leg. It was fantastic.

Incidentally, now that it looks like we're re-entering the Cold War, are you going to change your name to Amerikanski77, or maybe RunningDogofCapitalism77? Or are you sticking with the enemy of the moment?

the dirty little secret of male viewers across the country

It's sort of cute that you think this is a "secret." I've only watched about 5 seconds of Olympic swimming coverage and know exactly who the target audience for those showering scenes is.

All over America, you could sense people dejectedly preparing to eat cold platters of crow au vin.

Why should Americans eat crow? They weren't the ones making big overstated predictions. Indeed one of the winning US swimmers pointed out they had been very careful not to make any predictions prior to the race.

Americans hate it so much when the French act like Americans.

Look up "Sicilian Vespers". Maybe this will give you a better understanding about why they advised us not to invade (and occupy) Iraq.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers the 2000 Sydney games, where the Aussies got the gold after the Gary Hall Jr. smack talk of smashing them like guitairs. The Aussies, Ian Thorpe and company, playing air guitar after they won is a very memorable/entertaining Olympic swimming moment.

I also thinks Jason Lezak's finish is more exciting than if Michael Phelps wins all gold medals. That will be exciting, for sure, but the overhype is killing that excitement for me.

Long live Jason Lezak!

Big deal. It is refreshing to see an athlete who thinks he'll win say so. Usually we get the tired pabulum of "I'm just happy to be here and hope I do well and represent (insert country here)" - The French lost to an amazing comeback and world record in the event - no shame in that. It's not like they lost to the relay team from Chad.

"The top of his suit peeled down about as far as it could go..."

I heard Phelp's coach is letting him lift weights now.

Thank you, coach.