Florent Manaudou Wins Men's 50m Freestyle Gold -- London 2012 Olympics



France's Florent Manaudou wins the men's 50m freestyle event at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3 August) setting a time of 21.34 seconds. Manaudou was followed by Cullen Jones (USA) winning the silver and Cesar Cielo (BRA) taking bronze in the event at the Aquatics Centre. Subscribe to the Olympic channel: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 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. Find more about Swimming at http://www.olympic.org/swimming

Comments

  1. Amazing performance by everyone but even the OR wasn't broken.Kinda slow race according to olympic standards.
  2. 2:50 to see the race!
  3. Florent Manaudou c le meilleur
  4. Manaudou does everything my coach said me don't do. He stay underwater for 15 meters, straight arm stroke and he 'punches' the water. My coach says that isn't so effective, but Manaudou does it perfect. Looking Cielo, the wr holder, I noticed he does everything my coach says to do, don't stay underwater fo so long, full arm straight stroke but he slides his hands into the water. So...I don't know what to do.
  5. One of the alumni swimmers from my school swam a 20.40 second 50 yards, I wonder what time he can get in a 50 meter pool.
  6. Like si hablas español
  7. 3:02 Jones is smiling hehehe :P
  8. Perú s cuba
  9. lol my 50m freestyle is probably over a minute long i think. i got nothin on these dudes
  10. lane 8 should have been disqualified as twitched before the starter
  11. revenge of Ervin was really hard
  12. phelps should compete in 50m freestyle lmao
  13. I thought the swimming commentary is Bruce McAvaney and Nicole Livingstone.
  14. Did they even take a single breath ????
  15. Who's the woman with him in 4:30 for I think .
  16. Nope that's Laure Manaudou his sister. You keep talking about her but you don't know what she looks like ?!?!
  17. I envy those bodies.
  18. they do 50m a bit faster than I do 25m!!!!! I am 13 and I've not even been swimming a year yet though
  19. I kinda wanted to see Anthony Ervin win just to see if he would have a reaction


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Duration: 4m 58s

Rating: 3286