Big night at the ESPY Awards for Mike and other USA Swimmers. All total, Swimming received 12 nominations at the ESPYs. I was so excited to see swimming represented so well. Even though most people identify swimming with Mike, the fact that swimming was represented from the Olympic, Special Olympic, and College level is proof how the sport can capture attention.
Being ever the champion, Mike won all 5 of the awards he was nominated for. For weeks, fans voted for their favs. My favorite awards was Best Sports Moment. The Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay won the award!! Aside from the 100 Fly race, the relay is one of the best known moments from the Beijing Games. Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, and Jason Lezak 'swam as one' and brought the world one of the best sports moments ever! I've seen that race so many times and I still get chills because it was so full of the kind of drama sports fiction writers dream of creating. Big Congratulations to the team for that award!!!! Im very happy for them especially GWG + CJ :)
The biggest award moment for Mike was the Best Male Athlete. He broke Tiger Woods' winning streak to get one of the ESPYs highest honors. Im admitting my total bias and saying Mike totally deserved the award. Tiger is a BOSS, but yeah, I voted for Mike :) Congrats also to Dara Torres-Best Comeback, and Erin Popovich Best Female Athlete with a Disability.
And Sam Jackson was ever cool as the host. And if Mike ever wants to get rid of some of that ESPY Swag......:) Kidding! Congrats to everyone and next up.....FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ROME!!!!
