Missy Franklin Breaks 200m Backstroke World Record - London 2012 Olympics

USA's Missy Franklin sets a new world record of 2:04.06 to win gold in the women's 200m backstroke event in the Aquatics Centre as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games (3 August). Russian Federation's Anastasia Zueva won silver in the event with Franklin's compatriot Elizabeth Beisel claiming bronze. 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. Inhuman.
2. She is hot
3. I have met her
4. You look back and wonder what happened to her
5. Went to the same high school as her. hype
6. She's so happy for missy it's awesome😍
7. hi yes best
8. Everyone knows the World championships, what does CR mean?
9. Missy Franklin was the Ledecky of swimming before there even was a Ledecky of swimming, which makes Ledecky actually the Missy Franklin of swimming. Gosh I feel bad about Missy's Rio performance. I'm gonna hug her.
10. It was so sad to see Missy Franklin not in a good level this year in Rio
11. Lol at me losing 4 seconds on the 2nd 50s of 100 backstroke
12. she is a great swimmer, I feel bad for her she did not get the performance she wanted in rio. I guess pressure got to her this year
13. Wow a lot can change in four years. I just don't understand how she went from this dominate 17 year old prodigy in London to an average Olympian in Rio. I find it pretty surprising.
14. why missy didnt qualify to final 200 back in rio2016 ??
15. what's OR stand for? Ik WR means world record but what's OR? ._.
16. Oh My Gosh emphasize This one sounds auazipginteresting ..
17. Everybody claims that Americans are fat. That's a common stereotype. But just watching the olympics just immediately could change your mind. While some fat Americans exist, just look at some of our athletes at the olympics every year.
18. tr3z 5:55 in// once you go fives, you might enjoy hives?
19. Having used to swim myself, I cannot express just how tiring this specific race is.
20. The best part about this video is how happy Elizabeth Beisel was for Missy.