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cutecat

Jul 9 2008, 03:04 PM

Attendance Records Broken At Time Trials 07-08-2008 5:19 AM

(Omaha, NE) -- In addition to athletes breaking nine world records, attendance records were also broken during the Olympic Swimming Time Trials at the Qwest Center last week. USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus said yesterday that during one night of the competition, 13-thousand-717 people were in attendance, the highest number to ever watch a swim meet in the United States. The total attendance for all eight days was over 150-thousand, compared to 106-thousand for the time trials of 2004. Wielgus says he hopes to begin talks within the next month or two to bring the trials back to Omaha again in 2012.

Pegatha

Jul 9 2008, 03:33 PM

Just goes to show how we see what we expect to see! When I saw that cutecat had authored this thread, I automatically gestalted the title to read, "Obama showed out for the Olympic Swim Time Trials," and clicked on the link, expecting to see Obama in his speedos!

Don't laugh - I seem to recall a similar beefcake pic posted of Wes Clark about four years ago!

(hey, it could happen!)

cutecat

Jul 9 2008, 08:26 PM

It could!

graham4anything

Jul 9 2008, 08:49 PM

this is too funny for words

I saw the title and read OBAMA and thought speedo or some picture like that

open the thread and see Pegatha thought the same thing

we are all weird, aren't we?

mtnmagic

Jul 9 2008, 09:51 PM

Lord, I read Omaha as Obama too. Having said this, well GO Torres...Does my middle aged heart good!

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