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We also now know that not only did that not happen but the Americans -- with Phelps swimming the opening leg and Jason Lezak, who swam the greatest anchor leg in relay history, according to a NBC report -- obliterated the world record, kept Phelps hopes of eight golds alive, and provided the first lifer moment to these games.In other, Phelps-less, Replica Breitling Windrider Chronomat Evolution news, the American ballers took it to the Chinese. Men or women? Both. But the real upside of pulling out victories against the Chinese basketball teams is that the Chinese seem nearly as pumped up about watching the U.S. stars as they are about watching their own ... a good omen when it comes down to the medal rounds.--Alex Crevar

More than a week after an avalanche on K2 killed 11 climbers, the question of exactly what happened remains. Mountaineers have been mulling the incident, asking themselves whether it was a sad but expected part of a dangerous sport, or a sign that Replica Breitling Windrider Starliner Striped Dial watch mountaineering is become crassly commercial at the expense of safety. Would this have happened 50 years ago? they ask. Is climbing becoming obsolete, peaks mere trophies for wealthy, adrenaline-fueled adventurers?

While the accident itself was just bad luck, some wonder whether the death toll was so high because the mountain was clogged with inexperienced climbers. Some wondered whether the use of fixed ropes, oxygen and high-altitudeporters signaled that a number of the climbers were unfit to summit theworlds most dangerous mountain. People Replica Breitling A4935011-B7-3 Windrider Cockpit Men's Watch today are booking these K2 package deals almost as if they were buying some all inclusive trip to Bangkok, sneered Reinhold Messner in the New York Times.Others, like Tom Sjogren of explorersweb, said the accident was tragic, but par for the course. Death happens on the mountains all the time,” he said. --Emily Matchar