Imagine swimming in the big Olympic pools. All you can hear is the muffled noises of ecstatic fans cheering. All you can feel is the water urging you to keep swimming. Then you reach your hand out and feel the wall. You emerge out of the crystal blue pool water and have won! Michael Phelps and Dara Torres are two extraordinary swimmers who live their lives in the Olympic pools. Both Torres Is Tops and Michael’s Magic deal with the challenges and successes of Dara and Michael’s Olympic careers, but they do so in different ways. Let’s start our swim through the lives of these two Olympic champions. Dara Torres is an Olympic champion that has succeeded in and out of the pool. To begin with Dara is forty one years old and still can beat …show more content…
There are many reasons why he is such a popular name in the Olympics. Michael is only twenty three years old and has accomplished so many things. Along with qualifying for the 2008 Olympics like Dara Torres he accomplished a lot more based on the 2008 Olympics. As stated on page 2, Michael’s Magic, in paragraph 1 it says, “The swimmer proved that in August at the 2008 Summer Olympics, grabbing eight gold medals and becoming possibly the most successful Olympic athlete in history.” The 2008 Summer Olympics definitely boosted his fame regarding the Olympics. His swimming tactics are also a little different and unexpected. In paragraph 2 on page 2 it describes his swimming techniques, “Remarkably, Phelps sometimes swam more than one race in a single day against swimmers who opted to participate in only one or two events total to save their energy.” This shows how much endurance he was able to build up for the Olympics. Lastly, he had a lot of victories and records that set the bar for other swimmers. In paragraph 5 on page two it describes his race when his goggles filled up with water. It states, “After he touched the wall, however, he ripped off his goggles, clearly upset.” He then ended up making a world record by six hundredths of a
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This is a wild story of Lamora Williams who is accused of cooking his two sons alive in an oven and is facing the charges of two murders right now.
In the beginning of the story Dona Tina it talks about Luis “ Louie the foot “ who was the founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force which was originally Rebel Chicano Art Front. It's based in Sacramento where it started in the 1960s to advocate the Civil Rights and Labor Rights Movement. Montoya had started the Rebel Chicano Art in 1969 they wanted to express the goals of the Chicano Civil Rights and Labor Movement of the United farm workers with his friend Esteban Villa.
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was a joyful, jubilant, free-spirited Mexican-American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas and made enormous contributions to the second wave of Tejano music, or la onda chicana (Chicano wave). The only difference between Tejano and Chicano music is that Tejano is the Spanish word for Texan and Chicano refers to Mexicans in general. The Tejano genre of music can also be referred to simply as Tex-Mex music. “All Tejano groups rely upon 3 common genres for their repertoires - polca-ranchera, the balada, and the cumbia” (Peña 185). Selena’s music uses all three sub-genres, as we shall see later on. In the second half of her life, Selena moved to Corpus Christi, TX where she stayed until her death. “Corpus
When I was told that Nina Simone was to have her own biopic, I was initially interested and excited over who they would cast for the influential songstress; however, when I heard that Zoe Saldana would play her, confusion took me over. Upon seeing pictures of Saldana wearing darker makeup and a prosthetic nose for the part, I became further confused.
Olympics Games Rio 2016 is on in full swing and the name Michael Phelps has cropped up several times during the past few days. Just recently he won his 19th Olympic gold medal. But getting there was not easy for him. I read an article recently about his journey so far and could find similarities in his journey to those of Santiago in The Alchemist.
Finish, Finish, Go, and Go you just set the new world record. Every four years lots of people gather around a pool cheering for Olympians. It is a very noisy place. A lot of Olympians that are part of the summer Olympics are very athletic, they swim all year around. The swimming Olympic history and background is very interesting. They have done so many new things over that past couple of years. They come out with new rules every year to make things more fair and challenging. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for. I was swimming the 200 meter fly I was at a really good time when I had 50 meter sprint left at the end all I could think about was I’m going to set the new world record. Olympic swimming is a very fun sport it is very athletic. Every year in the summer time every one always sits around a TV watching this it is very famous in America. Swimmers from all around the world come and here and compete. There is a lot of competition there I have found out a lot about the history of swimming. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for.
Michael Phelps is well-known in the world as a very impressive swimmer. Phelps holds many Olympic and swimming records. He has long surpassed the many records of other highly regarded swimmers. Americans have followed Phelps, starting at a young age. He joined the United States Olympic team at the young age of fifteen.
This South African swimmer has proved that deafness cannot stop him from reaching his dreams. In 1999 Terence Parkin had won a bronze at the Pan Pacific Championships. In 2000, Parkin’s competed in the Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 200 meter breaststroke. In the same year he also won two silver medals at the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships. Then at the Goodwill Games in 2001 he won a gold medal. In the 2002 Commonwealth games Terence had won a silver medal and also a gold and another silver at the FINA Swimming World Championships. Over the course of his athletic career Terence Parkin has proved that nothing will stop him from achieving what he sets his mind
The study of physics and fluid dynamics in swimming has been a field of increasing interest for study in the past few decades among swimming coaches and enthusiasts. Despite the long history of research, the understanding of how to move the human body effectively through the water is still in its infancy. Competitive swimmers and their coaches of all levels are constantly striving for ways to improve their stroke technique and overall performance. The research and performances of today's swimmers are continuously disproving the beliefs of the past. Like in all sports, a better understanding of physics is enabling the world class swimmers to accomplish times never before thought possible. This was displayed on the grandest of scales in the 2000 Olympics when Ian Thorpe, Inge De Bruijn, Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and a number of other swimmers broke a total of twelve world records and numerous Olympic and national records.
The start of the 2002 track season found me concerned with how I would perform. After a disastrous bout with mononucleosis ended my freshmen track season, the fear of failure weighed heavily on my mind. I set a goal for myself in order to maintain focus and to push myself like nothing else would. My goal for my sophomore track season was to become a state champion in the 100 meter hurdles. I worked hard everyday at practice and went the extra mile, like running every Sunday, to be just that much closer to reaching my goal. The thought of standing highest on the podium in the center of the field, surrounded by hundreds of spectators, overcame my thoughts of complaining every time we had a hard workout. When I closed my eyes, I pictured myself waiting in anticipation as other competitors names were called out, one by one, until finally, the booming voice announced over the loudspeaker, "...and in first place, your 2002 100 meter hurdle champion, from Hotchkiss, Connie Dawson." It was visions like these that drove me to work harder everyday.
Swimming, one of the most favored sports by people across the world, is much greater than a form of competition and entertainment for a certain group of people. For countless mentally and physically disabled people, the pool represents a place where they build strength and derive confidence, and a place for them to connect with people who share the same mental or physical struggles as they do. According to Aquatics International’s research, people with disabilities have less time to socialize and partake in activities that require physical strength and they often experience feelings of depression. However, Aquatics International also found that “People with disabilities who are encouraged to participate in recreational activities such as swimming can achieve a greater sense of individual wellness and overall satisfaction with life” (Ostby and Skulski).Therefore, swimming is undoubtedly more than just a sport or form of entertainment; because, for some people, it is what keeps them alive and pain free. Swimming affects the livelihood of people with mental and physical disabilities in momentously positive ways, providing them support in innumerable aspects of their lives.
Michael was born on June 30, 1985 and is the only boy out of three children (“Phelps” Current). Michael started swimming when he was seven years old and says that his older sisters were the reasons he got started in the sport (Phelps and Abrahamson 19, 20). He soon realized that he could move quickly in the pool and that it relaxed him. “In the water, I felt, for the first time, in control. Swimmers like to say they can “feel” the water. Even early on, I felt it.” He quickly learned how to find what made him faster or slower (20). During the Olympics in 1996, Michael watched Tom Malchow and Tom Dolan swim and during this he soon realized his dream (“Phelps” Current). He wanted to win a gold medal (Phelps and Abrahamson 20).
Phelps was born to his parents, Fred and Debbie, on June 30, 1985 (JockBio: Michael Phelps Biography). He has two sisters, Whitney and Hilary (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). Both of them took up swimming when they were young and Michael followed in their footsteps (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). Phelps started competing and being involved with the U.S. swimming teams in 1999 (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). He competed in the Olympics representing the United States when he was just 15 years old (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). He started breaking world records and becoming known in the “swimming world” (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). Phelps was being compared to swimming greats and companies began wanting his endorsements (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). Then came the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Michael qualified for eight events and won gold in all eight events (JackBio: Michael Phelps Biography). President George W. Bush got to watch from the stands as Michael Phelps won his first race, the 400-meter individual medley, beating the world record. When Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly he was also “secur...
Any form of competitive swimming did not appear until the 1800s in Europe when schools accepted swimming as a natural part of life education. In the 18th and 19th century it became a competitive sport than being just a life saving skill. Swimming teams and clubs started to evolve all over the world. Although England was the first country to have an inside pool they aren’t one of the first countries of all times , China, Germany and Sweden were the first countries in swimming history. England and also invented the side stroke and after this one the freestyle evolved. Although there aren’t swimming competitions of side stroke it’s also known as a global stroke. In this essay I’m going to explain the changes of swimming for example the technology in swimming pools, the changes in bodies of the people that swam and more.