We’ve all seen the commercials. The ones by Citibank where you are watching some sort of nondescript video of an overweight man lying on the couch, while listening to a cheeky voice-over of a 16-year-old girl talking about what she just purchased using “her” credit card.

Funny but serious issue that identity theft thing.

But what happens when it involves two swimmers?

With Federica Pellegrini’s world record effort yesterday in the 200m Freestyle, she effectively removed Laure Manaudou from the record books by snatching another record from the Frenchwoman’s grasp.  What is interesting is that records are not the only thing that link the two.

Earlier this year Pellegrini began dating Luca Marin – Manaudou’s ex-boyfriend.

It gets better.

Manaudou’s ex-coach Philippe Lucas now coaches Pellegrini.

I am guessing that that might be all Pellegrini may want to “take” from Manaudou with those photos out there and all.

People love swimming

As of 4pm yesterday (East Coast time) there have been 1.1 million streams of the Men’s 4×100m Freestyle Relay served on demand from the NBCOlympics.com website, and now takes the credit as the most watched video in the site’s history.

You can quote me on that

“I think he’ll be swimming the 100m free.  That’s been our plan for a while.” – Bob Bowman on whether Michael Phelps will take up the event in the future.