The men's 1500m last night was a great race. Britain and Norway tuned into their TVs to watch Kerr (Brit, world champion) take on Ingerbrigtsten, (Norwegian, olympic champion) in a real grudge match. These guys don't like each other at all and there's been verbals between them for years now. The norwegian is definitely faster, but 1500m is quite a tactical race and the Brit is smarter.
Ingerbrigsten tried to run Kerr into the ground, set off at a lightning pace. It didn't work, the brit kept with him until the last corner and made his move. At that point the norwegian tried to push the brit out wide to make him run further, and an american cheered on at home by a crowd of his parents and their dog crept down the inside line and took the gold from them both.
All I could think was isn't that just the Olympics in a nutshell.