It started with the carjacking of a woman at a Houston gas station and ended with police rescuing a passenger trapped underwater in a swimming pool while the driver ran away.
Los Banos native James Savage just recently became the youngest person to make the 21.3- mile trek to swim the length of Lake Tahoe. He’s also the youngest to complete the Lake Tahoe Triple Crown after already completing the Viking swim and the Godfather.
A 14-year-old Chinese diver obliterated the competition at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre with her three perfect-10 scores to capture a gold medal in dominant fashion in the Olympic 10m platform final on August 5, 2021. Quan Hongchan, the youngest member of China’s team at the Tokyo Games, racked up a stunning overall score of 466.20 points, breaking the previous Olympic record of 447.70. The newest diver in a long line of Chinese Olympic champions took up the sport as a way to financially support her mother who has an illness that requires year-round treatment. Chinese fans have been inspired by her story of a rise above poverty to Olympic history.
Swimmers at Robert Moses were kept out of the water after park officials say a massive number of bunker fish were spotted earlier in the day from the Fire Island lighthouse.
The Soul Cap is designed to protect natural Black hairstyles in the pool and is used by Great Britain’s first Black female Olympic swimmer Alice Dearing.
For the last quarter of a century, the American men have dominated the backstroke events.
Jeff Rouse
Aaron Peirsol
Tyler Clary
Ryan Lochte
Ryan Murphy
Matt Grevers
David Plummerthe list just keep going.
But not any longer thanks to the 1-2 punch from Russia’s Evgeny Rylov and Kliment Kolesnikov.
Ryan Murphy still got on the podium, though, and swam a great race.
The Olympic swimmers talk with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith about their Tokyo 2020 experience, what it means to represent the United States of America, and coming home with multiple medals.
“To be the first Asian-American medalist [in Tokyo], it feels incredible. I’m super proud to represent the community,” Jay Litherland tells PEOPLE.
