So much happened this past week in Olympics swimming. Night after night, we saw wild things unfold. The unexpected occurred. And some things we were pretty sure would transpire actually did. From all this, five swimming stories stood out. Story One It all begins with a guy that two weeks ago almost no one in […]
After all that has happened — the pandemic, the delay of the Olympics by one year, the expectations put on his shoulders to be the next great American male swimmer — Caeleb Dressel’s emotions came pouring out on national TV during his interview with NBC Sports. Fresh out of the water after capturing the Gold […]
Uncontrollably, high school boys jumped up and down. One pounded his hand on the ground repeatedly. Jumping and jumping some more. Welcome to the joy of the Summer Olympics. All over the building, 2,700 people were getting lost in a moment. Sports does those once in a while. It’s a wonderful feeling. Everybody there and […]
You’ve been reading about several star American swimmers during the past few months heading into the Olympics. Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky, for example. There’s one name you didn’t hear much about, Bowe Becker. An accomplished University of Minnesota college swimmer but not a superstar, he wasn’t expected to make the U.S. Olympic team. Far […]
Everybody in the sports world needs to take a serious bong hit. Hold it in for 30 seconds, then exhale. Sit back. Let weed do a number on your brain. This will calm everybody in this country down who is freaking out about this week’s news that Sha’Carri Richardson has been suspended from the U.S. […]
There’s this grade school the whole swimming world has been hearing about as we stroke furiously towards the Olympic Swimming events in Tokyo. It is home to an Olympian. It’s called Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. During the recent Olympic Swimming Trials one of the school’s former students, 19-year-old Phoebe Bacon, […]
