Early Thursday morning, while most of us were still sleeping, drunk driving or expunging our vital organs into a bucket at our bedside, Gal Fridman was winning the first ever Olympic gold medal for the nation of Israel. To the glorious tune of Hatikva , Fridman accepted his medal from the head of the Israeli Olympic Committee, an organization who, up to this point, had been most renowned for the murder of eleven of its athletes and coaches at the hands of Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972. But times have changed, and now, thirty years later, during an unprecedented period of peace and stability in the Middle East Israeli athletes and citizens alike can rejoice, hold their heads high and proclaim at the top of their lungs:

“Our windsurfers are better than your windsurfers!”