List of Olympic records in swimming Puns

Seward’s Lydia Jacoby wins gold in Tokyo Olympics -- The 17-year-old swimmer placed first in the 100-meter breaststroke, beating out world- and Olympic-record holders and earning the state its very first Olympic swimming medal. alaskapublic.org/2021/07/…

Day in the Life: Katie Ledecky - Katie Ledecky is a 5X Olympic gold medalist, 9X world champion, and multiple world-record holder for Team USA women’s swimming at just 19 years of age… owaves.com/2016/10/05/day…

Prelude FLNG, the largest ship in the world. 1600 feet long, 6700 horsepower, and can hold 175 Olympic swimming pools worth of liquid.

TIL American swimmer Mark Spitz held the record for most gold medals won (7) at a single Olympics for 30 years. He retired at the age of 22. Recently, when asked why he retired; he said ''I didn't have a future in swimming because we couldn't make any money, the rules were different back then'' youtube.com/watch?v=j0Hrj…

USA 1,000th gold medal comes from swimming with win in women's medley relay | "At a Games where Team USA set a record for the largest number of female athletes ever at an Olympics, it was fitting that four of them led the United States to a historic milestone" usatoday.com/story/sports…

Born today : August 16th - Krisztina Egerszegi, Swimmer, five time Olympic Gold Medalist, "one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions", "one of 3 individuals to have ever won the same swimming event at 3 Summer Olympics", "held the world record in the long course 200m backstroke for 16 years" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kri…

TIL that the first time Eric Moussambani saw an Olympic size swimming pool was when he swam in the 2000 Olympics. He has by far the slowest time in Olympic history and struggled to finish the race. He won his heat after his competitors were disqualified and set a personal best and a national record. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eri…

Age of record holder when setting the world record - Athletics, Swimming and Olympic Weightlifting [OC] imgur.com/a/pxLYa

for all of you who know who this is, an old swimmers idol, olympic swimmer, and record holder, i met him today as he was swimming at my pool..rowdy gaines

Lindsey Engel just clocked a winning time of 22.56 in the 50 freestyle to take one of the most legendary swimming names off the the CIF SS D3 record list. She broke Dara Torres’ record of 22.69 that was set in 1985. swimswam.com/lindsey-enge…

ELI5 why do world and olympic records get shattered so frequently in swimming events, but so infrequently in track and field (some records lasting nearly 50 years )?

The bigger the talent, the more time the world will require to recognize and acknowledge it. But that should not stop you from believing yourself. NT Lalbiakkima, an Indian Boxer, once not even in the list of selectors, broke the record when entered the ring by beating the Olympic champion. drilers.com/nt-lalbiakkim…

TIL Due to its high degree of microporosity, as little as 1 gram of activated charcoal has a surface area in excess of 3,000 square meters- which is the same as 3 Olympic swimming pools, 7 basketball courts, or 230 car-parking spaces. labmuffin.com/fact-check-…

Swimming in poo: Fears of sewage leak in Olympic venue foxsports.com.au/tokyo-ol…

Per december 31st 2022, you get 15ct deposit on sofdrink/beer cans in the Netherlands. Currently around 25 olympic swimming pools full of cans (around 150 million cans!!) end up in nature in NL alone, every year! With this initiative they project at least a 70% decrease.

Born today : August 14th - Debbie Meyer, Swimmer, three time Olympic Gold Medalist, "former world record-holder at three distances", "first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics", "only woman Olympian to win three individual freestyle swimming gold medals in one Olympics" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb…

Trying to watch the Olympic Games coverage on BBC and the sound quality of the commentary makes you wonder if the commentators are sitting in an old pump-room, have a galvanised bucket on their head, an old sock stuffed in their mouths and are wearing a swimming nose clip.

Future, present and past Cal swimmers hauled in 19 medals, including eight golds, in Olympics swimming. They broke world records and continued their dominance in the 100 backstroke. In all, Cal athletes took home 21 medals from the Rio Games, including volleyball and rowing bronze medals. news.berkeley.edu/story_j…

Greenland is on track for a record melt year, having already lost enough ice to fill up more than 90 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Note: This does NOT include ice loss from marine-terminating glaciers. washingtonpost.com/weathe…

Olympic Gold Medalist Was Part of Crowd That Invaded Capitol Klete Keller, who won swimming medals in three Summer Games, was captured on video inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda during last week’s violent election protest.

List of Olympic records in athletics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…

How Japan Changed Swimming Forever | The Olympics On The Record youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2tj…

After 166 hours of grinding, forts, hunting cultists/mercenarys/special animals,uncovering the map, swimming in Olympic pools, sitting on pilliow, overlooking Greece, while I leave and Cook food Now there is no more interruptions lets beat the story

Born today : August 14th - Debbie Meyer, Swimmer, three time Olympic Gold Medalist, "former world record-holder at three distances", "first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics", "only woman Olympian to win three individual freestyle swimming gold medals in one Olympics" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb…

TIL the 1900 Paris Olympics featured a 200m swimming obstacle race. Swimmers started by clambering over a pole to plunge into the River Seine. They fought the current to scramble over a row of boats moored in their path, before ducking under a second row of boats, and then sprinting to the finish history.com/news/5-strang…