Men's 400m Individual Medley - Heat 4 | London 2012 Olympics
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Published 2012-07-28
Highlights of Heat 4 of the Men's 400m Individual Medley during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904.
In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition.
Women's swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men's and women's programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for women and 1,500 metres for men.
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All Comments (21)
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they look so relaxed right next to eachother lmao
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I was at 2012 and watched this race, they make it look so easy to swim so fast but very few people know how hard they had to work to get to this level. I know because my children are swimmers
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Actually, the underwater Cameraman was faster than all of the swimmers.
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amazing watching two wonders of the pool fighting shoulder to shoulder
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Phelps still seemed to be swimming fast in this event even by being ten seconds slower than his own world record.
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I was the lifeguard for this race! ;D the blonde boy sitting halfway down the pool every first length of each stroke ;D
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Now I have my bachelors degree but I still remember Michael Phelps as the reigning champion at swimming in a general knowledged text when I was in grade 5 or 6 I can't remember
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These arent humans these are fish
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anyone got the sound delay
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Cseh's stroke is so smooth and relaxed.
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That thumbnail looked insane
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If only state prelims for me were like this. With me everyone was like “let’s go as fast as we can in the prelims, then go faster in the finals”
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amazing
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I am so happy for him to win
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That Hungary man's fly is pretty special.!!
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michael phelps is the best all round swimmer i do swim and thats very good
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All that woman commentator talks about is how great phelps is, completely disregarding the quality of the other swimmers. She does it in every video.
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Good job
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Wow super swim
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Anyone else get the sound delay?
