Here are some other things that make me very happy.

Been watching the Tour de France religiously this past week. Figured it was a good year to start considering I missed 7 good ones. Don’t know anybody who watches cycling and didn’t think much of the viewability of the sport, but this stuff is actually really good. Reasons to watch:

1. overly excited Versus commentators
2. Contador and Armstrong getting real sassy
3. great background TV
4. helmets

Epic people celebrating an epic man in a sweet video. To send an insignificant-by-comparison message to Roger, visit Nike Tennis. Wish this video was brought to my attention before the last post. Also wish I came up with the phrase ‘Love Fifteen’.

Sunday at Wimbledon produced some amazing numbers: 77 aces, 77 games, 30-game fifth set, 37 holds of serve, and at least 49 grand slam singles titles in attendance (Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Rod Laver, John McEnroe, Boris Becker).

After 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14, the world has witnessed the most astounding number: 15 grand slam single titles. Roger Federer is now without a doubt the best to have ever played the game.

And props to Andy Roddick for building a terrifying game around that serve. He is finally a player that I can imagine supporting, and this is officially Roddick’s second coming – just in time for Flushing Meadows.

I admit I’m not much of a soccer fan, but as an enthusiast and a lover of America, I am extremely proud of the rainmaking that the US men are conjuring in South Africa. After a 3-0 win over Egypt and a huge upset over #1 ranked Spain, the US is set to face Brazil in the finals this Sunday.

The Steelers may have won the Super Bowl against a worthy foe, but Dinara Safina wins the beastliest photo of the week contest with the above image from the Australian Open website.

Bela Karolyi watching the gymnastics all-around competition. I love NBC for showing this.

China was finally able to take home the men’s Gymnastics gold that they were expected to win 4 years ago. Winning seven of the last eight world titles and carrying the weight of a country’s hopes, China performed under immense pressue and was able to atone its collapse in Athens.

In swimming, Phelps’ count is at 3 (gold medals and world records). Coughlin wins her 100m backstroke gold while repping the Bay. Peirsol and Grevers take the top two spots in 100m backstroke.

Other Olympics links:

A hilarious must-read summarizing the “8 Opening Ceremonies Moments that Made Me Crap My Pants“.

Brad Pitt is an Olympic athlete.

And a sweet collection of photos.

It’s only day four, but the Olympics are definitely exceeding expectations. From the killer Opening Ceremony to the rainmaking in synchronized diving, these Olympics have my friends (Lisa Chu shoutout) and I extremely pumped up. And who knew China has a history of rocking women’s weightlifting?

The biggest competition of the games so far has to go to the men’s swimming 4×100 free relay. And the biggest triumph goes to the U.S. men’s relay team. The race was absolutely absurd with records being shattered left and right. In the end, Jason Lezak swam the greatest anchor leg in history against France’s Alain Bernard to come from behind in literally the last 10 meters to win by .08 seconds.

“I’m not going to lie,” Lezak said. “When I flipped at the 50 and I still saw how far ahead he was, and he was the world-record holder ’til about two minutes before that, when Sullivan led off with the world record, I thought, it really crossed my mind for a split second, there’s no way.

“Then I changed. I said, you know what, that’s ridiculous. This is the Olympics. I’m here for these guys. I’m here for the United States of America. It’s more than — I don’t care how bad it hurts, or whatever, I’m just going to go out there and hit it.”

The 2008 Olympics are making it rain. And NBC is busting its butt to cover it all so go soak it all up.