Great Escape, Part Deux

... in which a properly chastised Blobber, aka me, apologizes for his premature diss of the U.S. swimmers in Beijing.

Since I blogged yesterday that, outside of Michael Phelps, the U.S. swimmers had been getting their glutes kicked all over the Water Cube, they've been kicking back. Phelps won his third gold in laughable fashion, Aaron Peirsol defended his Olympic title in the 100 bacstroke in world-record time, and Natalie Coughlin became the first woman to repeat as champion of the women's 100 back.

I stand corrected. And properly chagrined.

-- Ben Smith