Sun Yang 400m Freestyle - New Olympic Record | London 2012 Olympics

Sun Yang wins China's first ever gold medal in swimming and breaks the Olympic record with a time of 3:40.14 in the men's 400m freestyle event at the London 2012 Olympic Games (28 July). South Korea's Park Taehwan won the silver medal in the event with the USA's Peter Vanderkaay winning 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. I love swimming
   I'm going in the Olympic swimming when I'm oldest
2. doping doping
3. I keep hearing Taiwan, it makes me think the Korean guy is from taiwan.
4. The Chinese has a beautiful form. Smooth and fast like a swallow.
5. I think he should of took another stroke to beat the WR but AMAZING JOB china!
6. This guy is officially a druggy. It was covered up by the chinese swimming association, he got a 3 month ban. Go google it.
7. Sun Yang was so much slimmer back then. I wonder if he bulked up intentionally or if that just happens when you go from 20 to 24. But I guess it's clear that with all that additional muscle mass he's not gonna reach his 1500m world record, and apparently also in the 400m it costs him. His speed is still the same though when you look at the 200m
8. thank you sun yang LOVE
9. my coach is still mAD WATCHING THS PARK DIDN'T DO DOLPHIN KICKS OFF THE WALL
10. 실격돼고 체력회봇안돼서그럼거잖아
11. sun yang fail.
12. Sun yang is my 2nd favorite and park T is my 1st it was so cool to see both of my favorite Olympian swimmers be against each other in the lead congrats Sun Yang!
13. steroids
14. Go Sun Yang !
15. Can't believe he cannot get medal in Rio Olympic
16. China!!!!!SunYang! You are king!
17. 贏就贏不得安靜點嗎 = =
18. Sun Yang has been taking illegal drugs in 2012, he should be disqualified!!!
19. Ian Thorpe is out :)
20. sun yang is the king of ...dop...hé hé