(via Wikipedia) In this report from London: Lochte v. Phelps volume 1, the Wieber fever hits a setback, and two awesome new Olympians to get to know – swimmer Lea Neal and gold medalist skeet shooter Kim Rhode. Welcome back to the DailyHouse Sports Show! Once the London Olympics end, the mainstream coverage stops – but the sports still… [read article]
(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Last night, on the first day of the 2012 USA Swimming Olympic Trials, rising superstar Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps head-to-head in their first meeting of the event, the 400m IM. The race, a combination of the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, lasts just over a grueling four minutes. Lochte crossed the line in… [read article]
Happy Monday, interwebs! This is it. The final countdown. The big enchilada – the… uh you get it. This week is probably the biggest non-Olympic week for summer sports in the US. The three marquee sports: track and field, gymnastics, and swimming, all have qualifications and Olympic team selections in the same 10 days. The competition to make the team is… [read article]
(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) In just days, the three marquee events of the Summer Olympics – track and field, gymnastics, and swimming – each hold their trials to select the members of the 2012 Olympic team. It doesn’t matter how well an athlete in these sports has performed up to now, everyone – including stars like Michael Phelps… [read article]
This is the kind of event production that most Olympic sports can only dream about. Last week, the US team CRUSHED some of the best swimmers in Europe at the 5th Mutual of Omaha ‘Duel in the Pool’, held at the Georgia Tech Aquatics Center. In the video above the entire competition, from build-out to the races to the… [read article]
Duel in the pool? Really, it was more like a massacre. The US brought some serious fuego to the top European swimmers, winning 12 of the 14 events yesterday during the first day of the competition. 16-year-old phenom Missy Franklin helped lead the US to a new world record in the 400m medley relay, Ryan Lochte looked more like… [read article]
(Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images) Did you know that a HUGE meet pitting some of the best swimmers in the US versus some of the best swimmers in Europe kicks off tomorrow? It’s called the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool (yeah), and some of the biggest stars in the Olympic world will be there – Ryan Lochte,… [read article]
(Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images for Speedo) Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy So that’s what they’ll be wearing. Yesterday morning four people who sometimes do some swimming, Katie Hoff, Natalie Coughlin, Ryan Lochte, and Michael Phelps, swung by the Today Show to give a sneak peak of the new Olympic duds from… [read article]
USA Swimming truly is a powerhouse among the national governing bodies of Olympic sport. Swimming athletes win huge numbers of medals at every summer Olympics, the stars of the sport are household names, USA Swimming’s membership is more than 300,000 strong, and few NGB’s produce the quality and quantity of media output and fan interaction that USA Swimming can…. [read article]
Rivalries, we love ‘em! It’s exciting to see two evenly matched titans battling for a victory that only one can achieve. The growing rivalry between swimming superstar Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte is a matchup made in media heaven. The duel features the two top American male swimmers – Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever; and Lochte, an… [read article]
