The Beijing Olympics are here and if the first few days of events are any indication of how they will play out, it is going to be an unbelievable seventeen days.

    With these games American swimmer Michael Phelps is looking to become U.S.A’s most decorated athlete. He is competing in eight events and is looking to become the first athlete to win eight gold medals at a single Olympic game. 
 
  Monday was a little dicey. Phelps was the lead anchor in the men’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay, so he had to nervously watch as Southern Californian native Jason Lezak chased down the trash talking Frenchman Alain Bernard in the final metre to keep his dream alive. The race is already being widely regarded as the greatest in Olympic history.  

  What makes things even more interesting is that before the games, France’s Alain Bernard was quoted as saying they were coming to Beijing to “smash” the Americans and oddly enough he was the one who didn’t get things done, as Phelps and his teammates celebrate don the deck, Bernard stayed in the pool sulking with his head down and was the last to get out of the water.
 
 It only gets harder from here as mounting pressure; fatigue and an ungodly media blitz will surely start to catch up to Phelps. Here’s hoping he finds the strength to reach his goal and go eight for eight.