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an incredible finish! - Goktug Gedik

If you look at the images and ignore the arms paying attention to the body though Phelps (except for his arms) is actually in front. His arms are moving though and the other swimmers arms are just pointed forward gliding. It would be interesting to see high speed footage of the next few frames -- the ones between this and the touch (if they exist) - Brian Sullivan

great photo finish.. i remember that he is the left one so fantastic finish for him :) - Alp Çoker

is there a hi-res super-slow-motion video of this scene? - Goktug Gedik

Seems like the key information is between slides 4/8 and 5/8, rendering this frame-by-frame slightly silly. I'm also gonna quibble over the size of SI.com's top banner, forcing me to scroll down with each click. What I do like however is Phelps' arm-speed and rate of approach, awesome final push. - Marko Bon

I made an animated gif of those pics here http://picasion.com/pic2... - paisano from twhirl

Unbelivable. And thanks for that gif paisano. - Roberto Bonini

Brian, good point. I have seen the photos a few times now and didn't notice how far ahead Phelps was until you pointed out to look at their bodies. I was always focused on their hands. - Mike Boudreaux from fftogo

Love the Gif Paisano! - Marko Bon

Amazing. Cavic may have won if he hadn't tilted his head up like that. - Mike Reynolds

truly some of the best moments in olympic history ,, one of those most watched events - johnpiercy

unbelievable! - Jasmin Smith

What a finish! Thanks Paisano! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Amazing! He's superhuman going 8-for-8 - Dana D

Extra-terrestrial - Marcello Del Bono

WOW. This man is incredible - aliatrvash

Intense to review in itself! - Tamar Weinberg

WOW! - Ric from twhirl

this is a case where traditional photo journalism would be improved with more tech.... the GIF animation is terrific; just wish it could have been done by the folks with access to the super hi-speed images. thx paisano! (& I am Italian ;) - dave mcclure

Agree Dave. Wondered why they didn't create a high-quality animated gif themselves. It's easy to do and take no time at all. Heck, they could even make it more fun like allow us to zoom in and around the swimmers to view it from different angles...top, side then underneath. heh - paisano from twhirl

Since there are over 24 frames per second even in ordinary video film, and far more than that in high motion film, we certainly could have used a few more images. Although, this is impressive and his last half stroke effort, amazing. - iSteeve

24 fps gives a picture every .04 seconds or so -- the margin of victory was .001 wasn't it? So we may actually be seing the 24 fps frames here. I am not sure about high speed cameras -- what is the fps for them -- were they actually active and is footage available? - Brian Sullivan

One month after I graduated from high school in Ceres California. - Russellreno

I was 15 and eventually got NASA to send me one of my most prized possessions... an original Apollo 11 flight plan... for making some suggestion that I can now no longer remember. If you haven't seen the recent Discovery channel series, and you love the space program, you gotta watch it! - Michael Lehman

My dad had built a new Heathkit color TV in the months before this using his GI bill so he had a new TV for this event. He had all of the neighbors over to watch. I'll never forget one of the older men swearing it was a hoax, no way a man was walking on the moon up in the sky. I was 10, and I decided then that I was never going to stop keeping up with science and technology. Look where that has got me today. :-) - Charlene Kingston

I was 14, at the Newport Folk Festval in Newport, RI. Someone had a black and white TV plugged into the car battery of VW minivan and hundreds of people watched while some great folk musician was playing on stage. It was an amazing event, people couldn't believe it was actually happening. - Dave Winer

I was -28, and busy not being born. I'm happy I could see stuff like this now... - Yuvi

Wow...I wasn't even alive. That certainly would have cool to be around for. -

I wasnt born yet either, but I feel like I can relate to how amazing of a moment it was. At the time, was there any feat humans had undertaken more spectacular? I consider this to be one of the most amazing feats ever still today. - Andrew Baron

that was my 1st birthday! - Stephen Collins from twhirl

This rocks. I watched it on TV...and thanks for reminding me. I can recall it like it was yesterday. - Shambhu N. Vineberg

Later that summer was Woodstock. And in October the Mets won the World Series. - Dave Winer

i was a kid in grade school .. I remember the words .. vividly ,, One small step for man , one giant leap for mankind ,,, - johnpiercy

I was in Thailand and very lucky to have been able to see it there - Herb Myers

I got to see the last moon landing made via Kindergarten - Fred Grott

Thanks so much for this. In an instant I was back at our shore house, sitting with parents and grandparents and sibs, only a few weeks before I left them all to go off to college. What a sense of wonder and hope and possibilities that time held! Live TV from the moon - the unbelievable, seen with our own eyes. (To her dying day, though, my grandmother blamed every subsequent hurricane on those guys jumping around up there, but then she was sceptical about automobiles, too... she had seen it all!) - Linda Mills

Yeah i remember every minute, its very excited to me cos i wanna be an astronaut that day :) - Muge Cerman

Come on, everybody know it was all filmed in the basement of a Hollywood studio, don't you guys read the internet? :-) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

Excellent :) - Colin Walker

Incredible editing, dead on! - AJ Kohn

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone - l0ckergn0me

Absolutely speechless right now. - Gavin

Love it - Greg

Still crackin up on this! - Andrew Baron

I clicked the "like" button, and then I tried clicking it again. Very nice work. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

HAHAHAHA this one is ALL kinds of awesome too http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Mona Nomura

Nobody will believe me when I tell them Sesame Street sent me on a M.O.P. music kick. - Jason Toney

So well done. :-D - Jason Wehmhoener

ossim!! - Yolanda

"ANTE UP!...KIDNAP DAT FOOL!" hahaha! - Carlos Ayala

Brilliant ! - Mo Kargas

Uh, oh. Puppets, they scare me now. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Love! - Hutch Carpenter

I just captured a local version of this for my personal collection. - Andrew Baron

This is cute, but do people really like that "music?" I grew up with rap, but lately a lot of the forms it's morphing into just sound like garbage. I guess I'm just getting old... *sob* - Chrimmus Tad

This is totally awesome!!! - Jonathan Greene

Hate to make you feel older Tad, but that song is 8 years old. - Chris Nixon

Swell... - Chrimmus Tad

Also, even if the music is not your style, its just so perfect for this particular performance. So zen. - Andrew Baron

Personally, I think Bert and Ernie rock da howze. - Chris Baskind

dead on - so impressed - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Like? More like LOVE!! - ::Kristen::

I didn't think they could top the "death metal" skit. I was wrong! - Iain Baker

this is great, actually Ernie and b - Chris Conway

Bert are more hard core than your average rapper today. But not M.O.P. Those guys are def. Brooklyn bad ass - Chris Conway

that wa dead on accurate! awesome - Paul Rj Muller

That is funny and he actually manages to get an interesting point accross - Andy Lewandowski

Anthony, you ever think downloading a song illegaly is like stealing a car (or anything else) or you totally missed his point. kid rock is a brick for stating this bullshit. - Marcel Weiß

@Marcel, You really think this is complete bull? It seems there is some validity to his commentary. I don't completely agree with it but I think it has merit. - Andy Lewandowski

What's the wealth limit for when it's OK to steal? $1,000,000? $10,000,000? - Rich

@Richard Bill Gates has to ask at what point is it no longer worth it to bend over to pick up a dropped $100 bill when he could be making more money in those three seconds working on a more important problem. Like I'm doing here. Oh. - Andrew Baron

There is absolutely NO validity to his point. No actual theft is involved when you copy a digital file of any sort that exists on the internet. It's only theft if some loss of property is involved. Meatspace items are finite resources - if you take one you create a loss. Digital items are infinite resources. You can't "steal" a number, which is what digital files are. This is a tired argument that obsolete industries continually trot out in an attempt to justify their lingering existence. - Chrimmus Tad

Meatspace items can be secured from theft - locked, put up, garaged, etc. Some digital files, especially MP3s can NOT be secured. Attempts to protect digital "property" is fine with me, but the moment that a DRM scheme is rendered obsolete, the file it's protecting is no longer property. I "purchase" digital tracks because I can afford it. It's out of respect for the creator and to encourage continuing production. - Chrimmus Tad

It's funny. I'm not sure it's meant to be much more than that. - Iain Baker

Agreed with Tad - you can't steal something that has infinite resources, like a digital file. What makes 'things' valuable are their relative scarcity. I'm not advocating not paying for digital music, but this comparison is completely bogus. The bottom line is that digital music can't and shouldn't be directly monetized like records or CDs. - Phil G

this is great but kids with a sense of entitlement need more than this. They need a spanking to within an inch or their life because in the real world it translate to - Chris Conway

that explains their defection to Star Alliance and the rotten food they serve - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Same with Virgin: http://tinyurl.com/27f3zz - Benson Miller

I admit to having a box of legos in the attic that I haven't yet been able to part with. Is that so wrong? - Kelly Fox

Just fired it up in wine and appears to be working for Ubuntu at least - Vince

http://www.blockland.us/index... - Probably not as fun as Blockland though :) - Tim Hoeck

Legos were one of the best and coolest inventions ever. - Mark Forman

more than beautiful, Dreamy ! - ardiba

Photographer is a friend of mine-he does all kinds of awesome stuff. Many places in that area can be rented super cheap and offer incredible ocean views. Just kind of nasty when typhoons hit. - Mark Forman