Belly flop olympics game 2012

The year-old has won a bunch of relay medals in his time, but this was his first major individual title at an international meet. Otherwise, Adrian was pretty much best known for the time his shorts split when he was swimming the m free at the Indianapolis Grand Prix.

He went the distance with his butt bare in the water, and still beat Michael Phelps. After that, swimming in an Olympic final probably did not seem so intimidating. It was, really, the USA's evening. There were 12 races, and the US won six of them. They thrashed Australia in the women's 4xm freestyle too, just to really rub it in for the Australians. Now they all have another too.

Then, Rebecca Soni set a world record in the semi-finals of the m breaststroke, knocking 0. And, soon after, the crowd were treated to the latest instalment of the ongoing tussle between Phelps and Ryan Lochte , who were drawn alongside each other in the first semi-final of the m individual medley.

This round, like all the others, went Lochte's way. He beat Phelps by just a shade under a second, and allowed himself the luxury of a long glide in to the wall. Just an hour or so earlier in the evening, Lochte had also qualified second for the final of the men's m backstroke, behind his team-mate Tyler Clary. Given that, it was an especially impressive performance. It was Clary who said, before the Games began, that Phelps looked like a man waiting to be beaten. He was criticised at the time, but his words look more astute now than they were ever given credit for.

He probably doesn't give a Feck Main Menu U. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. James Magnussen's week just keeps getting worse. The man the Australians nicknamed the Missile came to these Games as the world champion in the m freestyle. Right now he is known, in the memorable words of one US columnist, as "the biggest Australian flop since Crocodile Dundee 3".

In Thursday morning's heats of the 50m freestyle, Magnussen was only the 10th fastest qualifier. And then he was handed over to the Australian press for yet another roasting. The previous night he had come second to the USA's Nathan Adrian by a single hundredth of a second in the m freestyle.

Rarely has a silver medal sparked such a crisis. And after the hammering he has taken, who can blame him?