Category: History
-
Home fans’ reaction to Cameron van der Burgh’s world record
She got it on tape !! :-P This is ultimately what is all about.. Sport unites us! #Olympics youtube.com/watch?v=cQM5S8… — Cameron van der Burg (@Cameronvdburgh) July 31, 2012
-
Mark Foster: The day I broke the world record
Mark Foster was a world, European and Commonwealth champion and world short-course freestyle record holder and swam for Great Britain at five Olympic Games before retiring after Beijing at the age of 38.
-
Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl under investigation for sex abuse in the 80s
USA Swimming has requested an emergency disciplinary hearing against prominent Washington area swimming coach Rick Curl for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a teen swimmer and then paying her and her parents to keep quiet as part of a settlement. Kelley Currin, whose maiden name was Kelley Davies, said Curl had sexual relations…
-
Today is one year since this day
Alexander Dale Oen posting 59.37 in the 100 breaststroke semifinal at Shanghai 2011, en route to become Norway’s first World champion in swimming.
-
Lorenza Munoz on »The Olympics That Weren’t«
Tough read here on the Los Angeles Times: And every swim meet in Mexico was laden with disaster, contrary to the orderliness I had grown up with in the United States. At one meet, I discovered, a referee had been paid to disqualify me; at another, the pool was the color of mud, and we…
-
Video Archive: Judy Grinham, Melbourne 1956 Olympic Champion
At the age of 17, Judy Grinham became the first British woman since 1924 to win an Olympic swimming gold medal, setting a world record en route to the 100m backstroke title at the 1956 Melbourne Games. When she returned to London airport on 16 December, she was greeted by enthusiastic relations, friends from the…
-
-
Mark Spitz’s advice to Michael Phelps: “Stop listening to the press”
Hear hear, read more here on CNN
-
Turkey to seek Guinness recognition for Derya Büyükuncu’s 6th Games
The Turkish Swimming Federation will seek Guinness recognition for swimmer Derya Büyükuncu, who will compete at the Olympics for a record sixth time in London this year. “Very few athletes have the privilege of competing six times in Olympics, and Derya will be the first swimmer ever to accomplish it,†Federation chair Ahmet Mazhar BozdoÄŸan…