The Ausse swim team did so well, here are a few snippets from the Sydney Morning Herald website,
The Australian swimming team has finished the Athens Olympics as the nation's most successful since the 1956 Melbourne Games.
Australia's won seven gold, five silver and three bronze in the pool to once again finish second on the medal table behind the Americans.
Grant Hackett leaves Athens as only the third swimmer in history to win back-to-back Olympic 1500 metre freestyle titles.
And for the first time since the 1972 Munich Games, the Australian women outswam the men.
Jodie Henry has started her Olympic swimming career with three gold.
Henry was the only woman to set an individual world record in the Athens pool, in the semi-final of the 100 metre freestyle.
Australia's new speed queen also anchored both the medley relay and the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay to world records and gold medals.
And Ian Thorpe will fly home as the country's greatest Olympian after winning two gold, a silver and a bronze.
and then there is our new Olympic golden girl/world record holder cyclist.......again from the Sydney Morning Herald
Anna Meares heaved herself out of the gate and charged around two laps of the Athens Olympic velodrome to claim gold, a world record and all its glory in the 500 metres time trial early this morning Sydney time.
go Aussies go