Michael Phelps wins 15th Gold - Men's 100m Butterfly | London 2012 Olympic Games
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Published 2012-08-03
Full event replay of Michael Phelps winning his gold medal in the 100m Butterfly at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3 August 2012).
Phelps was followed by a joint silver place to both Chad le Clos (South Africa) and Evgeny Korotyshkin (Russian Fed.).
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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Imagine how we wait 4 years for an event that takes 51 seconds
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non swimmers dont realize how demanding swimming is
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They make it look so easy.
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Insane performance of Phelps. But let's also honour the other seven. They're all beasts. Times are sooo close from 51.22 to 52.05
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Lets face it, Phelps is a fish.
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Simply the greatest Olympian of all time.
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Just glance at the rankings at 5:48 and you'll see just how incredibly close this race was. The difference between the Gold Medallist (Phelps) and the dude who came last was just 0.8 seconds. Incredible how small the margins are at this level!
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Swimmers make me feel so untalented😂😂
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the way Phelps looks with wide eyes and breathing with open mouth, now we all know that he's a beast in the water because he's a goldfish
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I wouldn't be surprised if Phelps's child is born with fins.
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LOL due to the audio not syncing with the video, when I heard the splash while the swimmers were all preparing to jump, I thought one of them, or the camera man had fell into the pool. xD
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How great must it be to be one of the most renowned and loved Olympic athletes ever? Crazy
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Is it just me, or is the audio for the start and little off?
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Michael Dolphin Phelps
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They are faster than my connection
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Mama's reaction was adorable ! Can't exoress this feeling ❤
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Greatest Olympian ever.
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is it me or does everyone look the same
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Once in a lifetime athlete.
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This guy has more gold than my country India ever had.
