Bolles 2008
My last year at Bolles was very special. It was the year of the Olympic Games and my senior year, two good reasons to get motivated.
Before coming back to Bolles from my summer holiday in Israel I heard that we were going to have a new coach, a former Olympic medal holder, Sergio Lopez.

Hello from Beijing!
What a great place to be, The Games have been amazing, the people been unbelievable and most important this is an experience that I will never forget in my life.

Michael Phelps finished his Beijing Olympics assault with 8 Gold Medals and 7 WR’s. To actually witness this historic feat with my own 2 eyes is amazing.

Trap a bunch of sports enthusiasts in a room for 12 hours, starting at 5 p.m., and by the time 5 a.m. rolls around all you have is a veritable circus.
That’s something I’ve discovered during these past five or six nights on this shift. It’s not like working the graveyard shift at the TV station, which I did once upon a time.

If I didn’t get up and look out my hotel room window I might never know I was in Beijing. But then there’s the view…
Outside my window looms the Bird’s Nest, that iconic tangle of intertwining beams that make up the shell of the main Olympic stadium.

“What a Great Day to be a Bolles Alum Where ever you Maybe!” I could not be more proud of these swimmers! They proved to the world that they belong in the Olympic Games.

First we had Nimrod swimming the 200 Free in the Prelims. He was going to have to swim the swim of his life to be able to get into the semifinals and that is exactly what he did. He swam an amazing 1:47.78 breaking his own Israeli National record by a full second…

So first of all i want to express how amazing these games are, but at the same time when we got to the pool last night and watched the prelims i was slightly disappointed with the fact that it just seems like a regular swim meet when you watch it from the stands.

Some people say they know Sergio, and I was also one of them. But after last night I really got to know him so much better. We had the best time in the world. The closer we got to the stadium for the opening ceremony the more fun we were having. But let me start from the beginning.

Today 08-08-08 at 08:08 p.m. (close your eyes and make a wish) will start the Opening Ceremony of the 29th Olympiad and will be the beginning of what everyone thinks the best Olympic Games ever.