Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The Russian national synchronized swimming team won the group competition at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The second place was taken by the Chinese women, and the third by the Ukrainian women.
Olga Korbut doing her extremely difficult βKorbut Flipβ at the 1972 Summer Olympics (was latter banned for safety reasons)
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
At this late date how do we successfully lobby the International Olympic Committee to change the triathlon disciplines from Swimming, Cycling, and Running to Wearing Your Mother's Underwear, Being A Thumbsucking Candyass Bitch, and Weeping During Sex so you can bring home the gold this summer?
The building used for the swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was transformed into this dope-looking waterpark.
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
TIL Mark Spitz, nine-time Olympic swimming champion, jokingly told a Russian journalist in 1972 that his moustache increased his speed in the water, deflecting water away from his mouth. By 1973 the Russian menβs swimming team had, according to Spitz, all grown moustaches. olympic.org/news/snapped-β¦
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Mladen Kuchev sets the last world record in press - 157.5kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics zgg.su/mladen-kuchev-setsβ¦
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olga Korbut at the Summer Olympics (1972)
Marina Zeas, since Ottoman times and until recently known as PaΕalimanΔ± (Ξ Ξ±Οαλιμάνι), is a broad bay located at the eastern coast of the Piraeus peninsula in Athens, Greece. It hosted the swimming events at the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. A seaport and marina are in the bay. At the ancient youtube.com/watch?v=spfscβ¦
Marina Zeas, since Ottoman times and until recently known as PaΕalimanΔ± (Ξ Ξ±Οαλιμάνι), is a broad bay located at the eastern coast of the Piraeus peninsula in Athens, Greece. It hosted the swimming events at the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. A seaport and marina are in the bay. At the ancient youtube.com/watch?v=spfscβ¦
Belarusian gymnast Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Her signature move, the "Korbut flip", is so difficult to execute that it is illegal in competition today due to the risk of severe injury involved.
Marina Zeas, since Ottoman times and until recently known as PaΕalimanΔ± (Ξ Ξ±Οαλιμάνι), is a broad bay located at the eastern coast of the Piraeus peninsula in Athens, Greece. It hosted the swimming events at the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. A seaport and marina are in the bay. At the ancient youtube.com/watch?v=spfscβ¦
100 Years Ago Today [23 August 1920] New Zealandβs first female Olympian, 15-year-old Violet Walrond, wins the 100m freestyle swimming competition at the Antwerp Summer Olympics.
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Infamous photograph of one of the assailants belonging to the black September militant group in the 1972 summer olympics village. He is seen in the balcony of the flats belonging to the Israeli athletes. [263*193]
The building used for the swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was transformed into this dope-looking waterpark.
Detroit tried to get the summer Olympics from 1952 through 1972. Why did Detroit try to get the Games (unsuccessfully) for so many years and why did they stop after 1972?
TIL Mark Spitz, nine-time Olympic swimming champion, jokingly told a Russian journalist in 1972 that his moustache increased his speed in the water, deflecting water away from his mouth. By 1973 the Russian menβs swimming team had, according to Spitz, all grown moustaches. olympic.org/news/snapped-β¦
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics
On this day, 48 years ago, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered by terrorists belonging to the terror group Black September, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. reddit.com/gallery/ini8r3
Over on the Meremac River, in the bluffs where the resort once thrived, is an Olympic sized swimming pool with bright blue paint and trees growing in the cracks. The St Louis working class elite came out here in the summer but stopped by the 70s and the pieces of our history disappear slowly. reddit.com/gallery/mre0y6
The building used for the swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was transformed into this dope-looking waterpark.
Team Anti-USA starts off summer Olympics with no medals on opening day for first time since 1972 redstatewatcher.com/aggreβ¦
"Finish of the 50 yard swimming competition, a dead heat, at the 1904 Olympics." Photo from the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.
The outfit of the king of Sweden at the 1972 Olympic games in MΓΌnchen
[todayilearned] TIL Mark Spitz, nine-time Olympic swimming champion, jokingly told a Russian journalist in 1972 that his moustache increased his speed in the water, deflecting water away from his mouth. By 1973 the Russian menβs swimming team had, according to Spitz, all grown moustaches. olympic.org/news/snapped-β¦
Opening Ceremonies 1972 Olympic Swim Trials at Portage Park
Indiaβs menβs hockey team has qualified for semi final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Last time India reached the semis was way back in 1972.
TIL of Eric Moussambani, who had never seen an olympic sized swimming pool before the 2000 olympics. He recorded the slowest time in 100m freestyle history at 1:52.72, however won his heat as all other competitors false started. He is now a national hero the head swimming coach of Equatorial Guinea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriβ¦
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Summer Olympics youtube.com/watch?v=6WKSMβ¦
Opening Ceremonies 1972 Olympic Swim Trials at Portage Park
