What swimmer lost his gold medal?
olympic swimmer gary hall jr. International olympic committee after losing them in the california wildfires. U. s. gary hall celebrates after winning the gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle during the 2004 olympic games in athens. Twenty years later, hall says he lost that medal and nine others in the palisades fire.
Who was the swimmer crying at the Olympics today?
Team USA’s Caeleb Dressel broke down in tears, letting it all out Friday evening after he finished his final individual event of the Paris Olympics — without even close to the results he had been hoping for. Caeleb Dressel was left in tears on Friday night after failing to defend his Tokyo Olympic gold medals in both of the individual events he’d qualified for in Paris.
Who is the slowest Olympic swimmer to win gold?
Nicknamed Eric the Eel by the media, Moussambani gained brief international fame at the 2000 Summer Olympics for an extremely unlikely victory. Moussambani, who had never seen an Olympic-sized (50 meters) swimming pool before, swam his heat of the 100 m freestyle on 19 September in a time of 1:52. Eric Moussambani Malonga, famously nicknamed “Eric the Eel,” captured hearts at the 2000 Sydney Olympics—not with speed, but with sheer determination. Representing Equatorial Guinea, he had never swum in an Olympic-sized pool before and trained solo in a hotel pool for just eight months.