At the 1961 AAU National Swimming and Diving Championships, George Haines describes the butterfly technique to Bud Palmer while high school sensation Fred Schmidt demonstrates. Fred won gold at the 1964 Olympic Game, later became a Navy Seal and helped recover several Apollo space crafts on their return from the moon.
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Making of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games’ logo
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CC photo #227: Nólsoy’s Gate of Honor and Diana Victoria
The finishing line of the annual open water swim between Tórshavn and Nólsoy, the Gate of Honor made from the jaws of a whale, back in the 70s. The boat in the foreground is Ove Joensen’s Diana Victoria, at tradition Faroese boat he built and custom made to row the 900 nautical miles (1,700 km) from the Faroe Islands to Copenhagen in Denmark. After two unsuccessful attempts in 1984 and 1985, where he reached the Shetland Islands, he succeeded in 1986 after 41 days of rowing alone.
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Video from Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
A little something I put together from the Tórshavn to Nólsoy open water swim Saturday, using footage from mine and Hestoy’s GoPros. Music unfortunately a bit dark, but that was what I could find in a hurry, searching for “sea” and a suitable duration.
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Team USA’s dancing skills and other talents
Some of the shocking talents a few of the 2012 U.S. Olympians have outside of their sports was shown on NBC’s Today Show. Our shortlist: Tyler Clary is a great belcher (and an amazing cuddler), Ariana Kukors has a nice voice, Ryan Lochte likes to draw and Missy Frankling loves to dance.
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Olympic gold no walk in the park for Ishchenko & Romashina
Nice segment here off Russia Today, featuring Russia’s gold winning synchronized swimming duet Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, on how they trained 10 hours a day for the London 2012 Olympics. They were also part of the gold winning team, so double Olympic gold for them.
London 2012 Synchronised Swimming – Synchro duet of Ishchenko, Romashina from meiwechner on Vimeo.
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Life is Worth Swimming Trailer
The Race Club presents Life is Worth Swimming. Own it on DVD September 2012. Narrated by: Gary Hall Sr. Starring: George Bovell and Bobby Savulich. See The Race Club
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Burroughs and Goudarszhi illustrating what the Olympics are all about
Or at least ‘should be all about’. Via Buzzfeed
Who’s says Iran and America don’t get along? Maybe I should be president! twitter.com/alliseeisgold/…
— Jordan Burroughs (@alliseeisgold) August 11, 2012
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Inside Tracker, a service used by Olympians to improve internal health (and thereby performance)
To help prepare for track meets, competitive 5K races and especially the Olympics, Boston-based runner Ruben Sanca runs 116 miles per week, takes vitamins and mostly watches his diet. But he would still feel fatigued after training runs. Then a blood analysis and a special software program revealed his internal chemistry needed some adjusting. Read Popular Science and see InsideTracker.