Oh, man, what an exciting thing to see Ahmed Hafnaoui win the gold medal at 400m freestyle swimming!
Most people probably had their eyes on the American swimmers, or whoever else the commentators were talking about ahead of time. But, because I'm weird, I was watching the Tunisian the whole time. I didn't know he had barely made it into the finals, finishing 8th in the trials. All I knew is that he was from Tunisia, and I thought that was kind of cool, so I was watching him. He was out in front with the leaders pretty much the entire time. Yet the commentators weren't talking about him at all. I wondered why, wondered if he was destined to fall behind. Eventually, they too began to notice he was one of the leaders. And, sure enough, he kept it up and landed what was only the fifth gold medal ever for his country.
So exciting!