2008 Top 5 Sporing Moments

5. Viewed - Melbourne Cup

Viewed gave Bart Cummings a record 12th Melbourne cup in the closest Melbourne Cup ever raced.

The race was so close that the runner up actaully ran the fasest race as the time is measured by microchips in the saddlecloth. Bauer must have had a slighty slower start to the race.

This would have made number two if I had of picked the winner, I think my tip came close to last.

4. Michael Phelps - Olympic Swimmer

An amazing eight gold medals in one Olympics could rightly see Michael higher up the list, but the fact that he was almost expected to achieve the feat before the games began and that he was very lucky with three out or the eight swims, I could not place him in the top two.

Will go down as one of the greatest Olympians of all time.


3. Usain Bolt - Olympic Sprinter

A freakish performance by 22 year old Jamaican Usain Bolt in 100m final in Beijing was my standout of the 2008 Olympics.

Easing off in the last 30m to smash the world record in a time of 9.69 seconds was incredible. He then managed to back it up breaking Michael Johnson's "unbreakable" world record running 19.30 seconds. To cap of an incredible week he collected another gold and world record in the 4 x 100m in 37.10 seconds.

Could easily have been higher in the list, except the fact he raced in the 100m sprinting final and in my opinion there is a good chance that every competitor is on drugs.

Usain Bolt could well be the exception I would be very happy if proven wrong.

2. Matt Mitcham - Olympic Diver

My favourite moment of the Olympics. Matt Mitcham was the only openly gay competitor in Beijing out of over 10 000 athletes, had quite the sport in 2006 due to depression and was competing against two Chinese divers who had shared every gold medal on offer at the Olympics thus far.

I was watching the 10m platform diving live when one of the greates Australian sporting moments unfolded.
There was one dive left for each competitor.

Zhou Luxin the Chinese diver leading the competition saved his worst dive for last scoring 74.80 giving Matt a mathematical chance of winning gold, giving Matt a target of 107.30.

Matt's last dive a back two-and-a-half sommersault with two-and-a-half twists was his hardest dive saved for last.

Watching that dive was one of the most intense sporting moments. Matt won the gold with a score of 112.1 out of a possible 114, the greatest dive in Olympic History. Inredible......

1. Qld State of Origin Team

Qld leads NSW 13-12 in interstate games and after losing the first game of the series there was the very possiblity that NSW could lead the series count for the first time in Origin history.

Qld won the series to make it three in a row. No team has ever won four series straight.