re: Thorpe:1 ; Van Den Hoogenband: 2; Phelps: 3
It's time delayed? Wow, I forgot about this !
Now, with the internet, isn't kind of difficult to keep it secret?
(There's a very beautiful american girl who won the gold, right after:-)
But......sshhh;-)
Those who win are often those nobody expected or those who didn't announce in advance what their intention was. Pressure can be tremendous! (unnecessary pressure).
The French soccer team (in 2002) went more or less through the same misadventure as the Dream Team. It's perhaps human nature.
Raoul