World's fastest.

Today, due to Mr Chin's good mood, We will have a special blog event today. It is called the World's Fastest Thing.


We start off this unique chapter on the Fastest thing on Earth.


AIR:

And it is light.



And to illustrate the speed of light, this lightning picture will be used. They disappear in split seconds.

WATER:

World's Fastest Fish. It is called the Sailfish.


And please for those people who don't watch documentaries, do not, I repeat, DO NOT SAY THAT THIS IS A SWORDFISH.




Over here. We have the World's Best Swimmer. Michael Phelps.


A bit debatable. Won 8 gold medals (but did not swam in the Backstroke and Breaststroke event) including Team Relays. With such formidable teammates, I believed that if Tao Li team with them they will also win la.


Just kidding. Of cause all the hype is on him. I doubt you know what are the other 3 swimmers' name. Seriously I got no idea why Phelps is always compared to a dolphin.


' That's Michael Phelps. He's swimming in lane 5. Oh he is leading the rest of the competitors and he is swimming like a dolphin.'


*NOTE: DOLPHINS ARE NOT THE FASTEST SWIMMERS UNDERWATER. ITS SAILFISH. S-A-I-L-F-I-S-H.


OK. It's self-explanatory why they describe him as dolphin. The swimming pattern like dolphin. Sine-wave shape ( legs go up and down and not right to left like the sailfish). And thus, that is how they come up with dolphin to describe him.


But why not describe him as killer whale? The debates goes on...


LAND:


OK over here we have the Fastest Land Animal over here.

It's a Cheetah. Fastest animal on land. And please. It is not a leopard.




And of cause the World's fastest man. Usain Bolt.

I watched his 200m sprint today. It was incredible. He got a very very big lead at the last 20metres. The commentator even said: " He's so fast that he made the other runners looks like college runners."

World Class. Absolutely stunning. His win is like the recent China vs Singapore table tennis match whereby China won 3-0 comfortably. Oh god. Unbelievable.

And the 'supposedly' American bronze medalist got disqualified as he stepped on the lines on the lanes. That's sad. When you won silver and takes the USA flag around parading with the World's fastest man and happily taking photos together and you were told you were disqualified while walking around the track with the flag on your shoulders, what will you feel?

Ask him. Mr Wallace Spearmon. However, he did pull the silver medalist down with him. Mr Churandy Martina, who were beside his lane while running, was also disqualified after the US team presented evidence that he cut across other competitor's lane.

Apparantly it is Spearmon's fault for cutting his lane in the first place. Pity to Martina, who set the new national record of 19.82 for the Neatherlands in ths race, was eventually disqualified too.


To readers: You all might think why no AIR: World's fastest air animals. But unless there is competition for humans to fly on air, that section is probably not needed.




Phelps's Picture courtesy of http://www.timalanstudios.com/images/phelps.jpg

Bolt's Picture courtesy of http://popwatch.ew.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/17/olympicsusainbolt_l.jpg

Cheetah's Picture courtesy of http://theora.com/images/Cheetah.jpg

Sailfish's picture courtesy of http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/1024/sailfish.jpg

Lightning picture courtesy of http://z.about.com/d/weather/1/7/c/-/-/-/lightning2.jpg