I don't watch TV that much - but I'm glad I did today and caught a glimpse of a bit of US history in the making for this year's Olympics.

The news is all about Paul Hamm, the 21 year old US gymnast who made a big blunder in one of the events - everyone thought that he's out of the competition for Gold, and he himself have admitted saying to his coach that the best that he can do is to go home with a Bronze.

His coach, Miles Avery, replied: "No Way!"

Hamm performed spectacularly on his next two events and ended up taking the Gold, after beating the Korean gymnast by a mere 0.012 (Hamm got 57.823, the Korean got 57.811).

Avery explained later that errors ... are not the end of the day. What you must do is to keep fighting, keep going...

I caught a glimpse of two scenes: when Paul fell at the vault, crashing into the judges - with that look on his face knowing that it might be over for him, and when he's about to do the horizontal bars - on which he needs to get a near perfect score in order to edge-out the Korean.

The man knows what he had to do, and he focused on getting it done, and he did get it done.

~ Just a little something from the Athens 2004