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Michael Phelps wins 15th Gold – Men’s 100m Butterfly | London 2012 Olympic Games



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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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46 Comments

  1. JRMY

    why they got headphones on when entering like is it related to swimming??

  6. deleted4109

    Is it just me or do make swimmers not have lower jaws I wonder if it’s due to mouth breathing in the water

  12. Sloth

    It's crazy how small the differences are. There's barely a 1 second difference from the 1st place and the 8th place. Goes to show the level they compete in.

  18. Xavier Di Sante

    When done with proper form, the butterfly stroke is one of the most beautiful to watch. I’ve been a swimmer my whole life is always a joy to swim butterfly, this is the gold standard in swimming if you can swim the butterfly with flawless technique then your a swimmer.

  24. Nineth

    Remarkable, stunning, but what terrible commentary! What a shame they couldn't get a decent commentator for this iconic race. Can't step up or control his voice towards the finish.

  25. claudia33

    Now i understand why he smokes weed..
    Just check his mom
    (She s just terrible, no manners, no education)

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