Olympic Bromance -- Inaugural

For the first entry to the Blog, I thought I'd post an instance of bromance in the public sphere. This arm-dense photo shows the 2008 US Olympic men's swimming team celebrating a recent victory with a common bromantic gesture: the group hug. The group hug is essentially one big circular side-hug, perhaps the atomic building-block of all things bromantic.

Also remarkable here is Michael Phelps' vaguely embarrassed glance toward the camera lens, which evinces another dominant bromantic theme: self-consciousness.