Michael Giltz: God And Man At The Olympics

I'm a huge gymanstics fan, so beyond the excitement of the women -- who always get tons of press coverage -- it was great to see the men do so well, especially after injuries sidelined the Hamm brothers. Raj Bhavsar -- who deserved to be on the team outright -- switched from an alternate to a major player in helping the men snag a team bronze medal. Alexander Artemev -- who is famously inconsistent -- was the last man standing and had to accomplish his crowd-pleasing, extremely difficult pommel horse routine under the most intense pressure imaginable. And succeeded brilliantly. And sparkplug Jonathan Horton led the team throughout the event, giving the performance of his life on apparatus after apparatus. So I was cheering Horton when he competed on the horizontal bar for an individual medal. At the last minute, Horton added in some hugely challengng elements because he knew he didn't have a chance of medaling without them. Before he was ready to go, Horton was bending down next to those giant ... (link)