@niccolog2166 you start to see guys doing track starts 1992 & here you can see David Fox in 1996, the blocks became fully optimized at 2011 worlds and every games since has used the fin blocks
I was at the heats session in 1996. Also saw Perkins squeek in the 1500m final and take gold the next day from lane 8. Also the 2016 announcer is a guy I used to race against.
1988 : Matt Biondi 1992 : Alexander Popov 1996 : Alexander Popov 2000 : Anthony Ervin & Gary Hall Jr 2004 : Gary Hall Jr 2008 : Cesar Ciello Filho 2012 : Florent Manaudou 2016 : Anthony Ervin 2020 : Caeleb Dressel
The fact that Anthony Ervin won the game 2 times after 16 years is just crazy! Remember that it is a super sprint distance, not an endurance game that might grow up when you're aging.
Also the fact that César Cielo WR and OR remains after 16 years too...never a WR or OR remained for too long...the OR will remain for sure at least until 20 years
Just going back to back on the 100 free already puts you in a legendary category. Doing it on boths 50 and 100 is insane. I think he is probably the GOAT sprinter.
Actually, from 21secs to under 21, it will take forever (figuratively), timings tends to get low exponentially, so it won't be a big difference like from 21 secs they will go to 19 or something, in 50m they can lower 21.9 to 21.5 or 21.45 types which in itself is a big big improvement, so timing in 50m from 1980s would have been in 21s only.
Anthony Ervin: Wins gold in 2000 at age 19. Retires in 2003 at age 22. Sells gold medal on eBay and joins a band. Starts training again in 2011. Wins gold AGAIN in 2016 at age 35. The oldest individual gold medallist in Olympic swimming history. What a story... GOAT?
One of the GOAT for sure, too hard to argue who's the best across generations with no proper variables to compare and why to compare in the first place, but no one will argue that he is one of the GOATs (I know sounds stupid to say one of the GOAT), I guess you get me.
@@sarthakbhalerao1045 Totally agree. You can only really say who was the best at that given time. But to win it twice 16 years apart is unbelievable, irrespective of times. PS. He was also the first US citizen of African descent to win an individual gold in the pool.
inspirational, a real story that guy lived. mike bottom said he’d never seen anyone with a feel of the water like tony makes you think if there was more to be untapped but a specimen like caeleb will just tell him to hold his beer i was screaming in my tv in 2016 when he did this incredible
Alexander Popov, technically one of the best i have ever seen... Greetings from Germany, But there were so many great swimmers out there. It motivates me every time to swim, to see all these champions!
1988: 1- Biondi, USA 2 - Jager, USA 3 - Prigoda, URS 1992: 1- Popov, EUN 2- Biondi, USA 3 - Jager, USA 1996: 1 - Popov, RUS, 2 - Hall jr., USA 3 - Scherer, BRA 2000: 1 - Ervin & Hall jr., USA 3 - Van Den Hoogenband, NED 2004: 1- Hall jr., USA 2 - Draganja, CRO 3 - Schoeman, RSA 2008: 1- Cielo, BRA 2 - Leveaux, FRA 3 - Bernard, FRA 2012: 1 - Manaudou, FRA 2 - Jones, USA 3 - Cielo, BRA 2016: 1 - Ervin, USA 2 - Manaudou, FRA 3 - Adrian, USA 2020: 1 - Dressel, USA 2 - Manaudou, FRA 3 - Fratus, BRA
Jagr and Popov are still the fastest pure sprint swimmers of all time, IMHO. Put a tech suit on them, give them hydro caps and goggles, give them the backstop on the block, teach them to dolphin kick to the surface on the start and their speed would have been insane.
Goat decision: Gary Hall (defend gold), Anthony Ervin (wins after 16 years), Alexander Popov (defend gold), Caeleb Dressel (Olympic record by huge margin), Cesar Cielo (world record holder), or Florent Manadou (4 podiums over 4 Olympics)?
This is so cool to watch. Kind of funny, I have Matt Biondi's autograph in my photo album from when I was swimming in Nationals in the Netherlands in 1988.
Your video is phenomenal!i hope the million vue this year cause we can see the évolution of the 50 freestyle .hope to see for the other stroke (i love the 400im but the videos will last 2 hours 🤣🤣 ) thanks a lot for this great content!!salim from paris
What a high level of those elites really great performance , But we all know that if you don't working hard , you'll never be Olympic champion Respect to them all and hard luck to our champion 🇩🇿
it’s incredible how athens 21.9 to beijing 21.3 suit assisted times happened but then the bar was set and london it was 21.3. human nature is incredible suits just gave room to go even faster.
Жалко конечно русских пловцов. Раньше очень хорошо выступали. О всего союза, а сейчас даже в финал не попадают. Очень жаль.... А такие были ребята.... И водное поло на таком же уровне...
Biondi contro di me non avrebbe avuto speranze visto che senza allenamento specifico facevo una vasca in meno di 20"... L'unico problema poteva essere il tuffo per l'ingresso in acqua visto che sono stato sempre negato a tuffarmi
The longevity Olympic Champion, at least. Florent Manaudou did beat him in 2012, admittedly a single year after Anthony Ervin resumed his career. Otherwise, I think Manaudou just edges Ervin just given the fact he won silver in 2021 after a 2 year career pause (2016-2018), and still took Bronze in 2024, despite being almost 34.
Beijing 2008, that’s when the world was calm. US and China were friends, UA-cam and facebook were still allowed in China, US allowed Chinese tech companies
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Papov🇷🇺💪💪💪
Bravo
The way the start and underwaters have evolved over this span is crazy.
The platform where they dive in from is changed too, allowing for one foot in front of another type of start.
Ikr they had really short underwater and did flutter kick instead of dolphin
@niccolog2166 you start to see guys doing track starts 1992 & here you can see David Fox in 1996, the blocks became fully optimized at 2011 worlds and every games since has used the fin blocks
I was at the heats session in 1996. Also saw Perkins squeek in the 1500m final and take gold the next day from lane 8.
Also the 2016 announcer is a guy I used to race against.
I was at the heats session in 1996. Also saw Perkins squeek in the 1500m final and take gold the next day from lane 8
1988 : Matt Biondi
1992 : Alexander Popov
1996 : Alexander Popov
2000 : Anthony Ervin & Gary Hall Jr
2004 : Gary Hall Jr
2008 : Cesar Ciello Filho
2012 : Florent Manaudou
2016 : Anthony Ervin
2020 : Caeleb Dressel
Most people can read primate
Thank you
2024?:))
@@kartalylmaz7734 Me😉
2024 : Cameron McEvoy
can we acknowledge Manaudou's amazing consistency : 3 podiums over 3 olympics !
Why was he swimming very near to Dressel's lane in 2020?
@@emr392 so he could swim on the wave of Dressel
@@emr392 basically go faster, to reduce drag, it seems he already knew he was going to be slower, he tried to at least win a medal
The only manadou who wanted to swim
Garry hall junior also with 2 gold and one silver
The fact that Anthony Ervin won the game 2 times after 16 years is just crazy! Remember that it is a super sprint distance, not an endurance game that might grow up when you're aging.
A true living legend!
Like Santos now
Also the fact that César Cielo WR and OR remains after 16 years too...never a WR or OR remained for too long...the OR will remain for sure at least until 20 years
Popov is probably the GOAT sprinter. Only guy to defend both the 50 and 100 free back to back games
popov is a odd one, he was swimming the popov freestyle, that is very hard to learn.
Just going back to back on the 100 free already puts you in a legendary category. Doing it on boths 50 and 100 is insane. I think he is probably the GOAT sprinter.
@@verward i feel like dressel might do this aswell at paris
I think Cielo Filho
Insane that they were swimming 21 in 50 free with no revolutionized start and no tech suits in just basic briefs.
that’s what i was thinking about. imagine if they were evolved with the new technique, suits and other things now!
I mean if they took off their briefs they could shave more time 🤷♂️
@@ShowtimeSammy_ not really. That’s extra drag, while a brief is more streamlined
Actually, from 21secs to under 21, it will take forever (figuratively), timings tends to get low exponentially, so it won't be a big difference like from 21 secs they will go to 19 or something, in 50m they can lower 21.9 to 21.5 or 21.45 types which in itself is a big big improvement, so timing in 50m from 1980s would have been in 21s only.
@@ShowtimeSammy_ 😂 no they’d actually be slower. The suit if made correctly should repel water.
2000 : A popov, the only one without swimming cap, and normal swim trunks. For me, he is the GOAT as 2 time defending champion.
+ 100m as well
Dressel was great in 2021 but seeing fratus finally medal was a highlight of the games.
Yeah he’d been trying for years!
fratus finally winning a medal is the best moment in the whole video!
Ele com bronze comemorando como um ouro. Aquele bronze valeu muuuito!! ☝️☝️☝️☝️
Anthony Ervin: Wins gold in 2000 at age 19. Retires in 2003 at age 22. Sells gold medal on eBay and joins a band. Starts training again in 2011. Wins gold AGAIN in 2016 at age 35. The oldest individual gold medallist in Olympic swimming history. What a story... GOAT?
One of the GOAT for sure, too hard to argue who's the best across generations with no proper variables to compare and why to compare in the first place, but no one will argue that he is one of the GOATs (I know sounds stupid to say one of the GOAT), I guess you get me.
@@sarthakbhalerao1045 Totally agree. You can only really say who was the best at that given time. But to win it twice 16 years apart is unbelievable, irrespective of times. PS. He was also the first US citizen of African descent to win an individual gold in the pool.
life rewarded him with new gold for his kindness and generosity
inspirational, a real story that guy lived. mike bottom said he’d never seen anyone with a feel of the water like tony makes you think if there was more to be untapped but a specimen like caeleb will just tell him to hold his beer i was screaming in my tv in 2016 when he did this incredible
Looool
Alexander Popov, technically one of the best i have ever seen... Greetings from Germany, But there were so many great swimmers out there. It motivates me every time to swim, to see all these champions!
Definitely on drugs all Russia swimmer
Caeleb dressel really has revolutionized the start. Wouldn’t be surprised if nearly all the competitors next year are trying to mimic it.
Tandy has a better start
@@swimfan752 but Dressel has a better underwater and breakout portion. He carries the momentum of his start better.
Yeah it's crazy he was already one meter in front of other swimmers in an Olympic finals
Cesar Cielo was a great Olympic swimmer and a great example for all swimmers
What? He was a cheat and always crying
@@guillaumemartin9295 Crying?
If you want to become a cheater he is indeed a great example
@@valerio1292 how did he cheat?
@@guillaumemartin9295 yes crying of emotion
I miss the announcer from the Sydney, Athens and Beijing days. So nostalgic.
He does the south Australian state championships now
Name?
1988: 1- Biondi, USA 2 - Jager, USA 3 - Prigoda, URS
1992: 1- Popov, EUN 2- Biondi, USA 3 - Jager, USA
1996: 1 - Popov, RUS, 2 - Hall jr., USA 3 - Scherer, BRA
2000: 1 - Ervin & Hall jr., USA 3 - Van Den Hoogenband, NED
2004: 1- Hall jr., USA 2 - Draganja, CRO 3 - Schoeman, RSA
2008: 1- Cielo, BRA 2 - Leveaux, FRA 3 - Bernard, FRA
2012: 1 - Manaudou, FRA 2 - Jones, USA 3 - Cielo, BRA
2016: 1 - Ervin, USA 2 - Manaudou, FRA 3 - Adrian, USA
2020: 1 - Dressel, USA 2 - Manaudou, FRA 3 - Fratus, BRA
Manaudou is the best with his bronze medal in 2024
The only one to win 4 medals at this event.
Manaudou 3 finals and 3 times in the top2, crazy !!! legend !!!!
Yes and bronze for 2024 crazy!!!
Popov is the true king of short distances
Manaudou: 🏅 🥈🥈🥉
Popov beat everybody in both 50 and 100 in 92 and 96. Without suit and cap!
It look like in 1992 they are swimming like 12yo. But yet they are 22sec. That is mindblowing.
Jagr and Popov are still the fastest pure sprint swimmers of all time, IMHO. Put a tech suit on them, give them hydro caps and goggles, give them the backstop on the block, teach them to dolphin kick to the surface on the start and their speed would have been insane.
Salute to the day and night practice of all great athletes out there.😊😊
Goat decision:
Gary Hall (defend gold), Anthony Ervin (wins after 16 years), Alexander Popov (defend gold), Caeleb Dressel (Olympic record by huge margin), Cesar Cielo (world record holder), or Florent Manadou (4 podiums over 4 Olympics)?
This is so cool to watch.
Kind of funny, I have Matt Biondi's autograph in my photo album from when I was swimming in Nationals in the Netherlands in 1988.
Cesar Ciello monstro do Brasil.
Cesar Cielo drug cheat
@@guillaumemartin9295 Proofs: none
@@guillaumemartin9295deixa de ser invejoso
All I saw A Happy Fratus❤️
Crazy to see that the Beijing final featured 8 finalists that had times that would have won gold in Athens only 4 years before…
Supersuit
Super super Dirisimo!
It’s not that crazy. Super suit year
Supersuit.
Incredible athletes.
I don’t know who you are, but thank you for this video!
Popov , Goat 50 m freestyle
Автор ,спасибо тебе за такое видео!!!👍👍👍
MANADOU ,THE GREAT, CIELO BRILLIANT, POPOV SUPERB
this is really fine to watch!
Perfect video. Thank you.
Caeleb!!! Ooh, baby, baby!
Fratus bronze medal 2020 is so special for brazil
I can see why. Cielo was gone after 2012 when he would have deserved to be at Rio, and Fratus had been chasing a medal since London.
Dressel unbelivable!
21's in briefs is insane
Dressel is a beast!!
Manaudou incredible regularity
Dressell and that first 15m . Nobody touches it.
Your video is phenomenal!i hope the million vue this year cause we can see the évolution of the 50 freestyle .hope to see for the other stroke (i love the 400im but the videos will last 2 hours 🤣🤣 ) thanks a lot for this great content!!salim from paris
400m IM is stoped with M.P...:D If anyone breake this unreal suits record, maybe after 20 years..:D
@@radoslavgoc5345 I reckon Leon Marchand is gonna do it, he's gotten really close to Phelps' time at worlds
What a high level of those elites really great performance ,
But we all know that if you don't working hard , you'll never be Olympic champion
Respect to them all and hard luck to our champion 🇩🇿
Как интересно видеть прогресс в плавании!
nice edit 👏👏👏👏
Can't believe Ervin can win gold again in his age and between Manaudou and Adrian.
Popov my favourite ever
popov the greatest
manaudou, marchand, grousset... FRENCH TEAM 💪💪💪
For 50 m. race, they just don't breath.
No time to turn the head to breath in
Unmatched Sasha Popov
World number 1 hard exercise❤❤
Till 1996 they only wore briefs and many not even caps. That was fair swimming.
The back of the block push plates (dont know what to call them) are like a cheat code in gaming.
Best sport ever
Александр Попов лучший!
That was crazy! So close.
Dressel turned a 22 at the 50m mark. Blazing
EXELENTEEEEEEEE resumen !!! Gracias....
Dressel always have perfect depart
César CIELO FILHO!!!!!!!!!! the GOAT of 50 free
I just wish it would be with commentary and not random music.
curious how fast biondi would be with modern training and techniques. dude was a freak - 6'5" with arms like whale flippers.
Him and popov with modern training and equipment would be insanely fast
GARY HALL IS THE BULLY OF ALL MOVIES JAJAJAJAJA
Nice .. Big Like
The Russian rocket was awesome!!
Bruno Fratus 🥉
Попов лучший!
Micheal phelps in parallel universe or wot👁
Cielo wr is 20.91 what a record he made is😮
But how much longer will it last?...
@@OlympicsAquatics might be 20 years later it will be go on
Biondi was built different.
David Popovici will be the 🐐!
Next video with 1500m pls 😄
it's crazy to see how much faster it got once they started adding underwaters
Biondi is a legend
Nonsense just a swimmer
А Попов не легенда что ли?
Cesaaaaoooooo on fireeree
Supersuit era was crazy.
It's basically like shoe technology in running sports.
Still, kinda glad they removed them.
Can Dressel beat Cielo WR 50 free? If someone deserve it is him. Great swimmer.
it’s incredible how athens 21.9 to beijing 21.3 suit assisted times happened but then the bar was set and london it was 21.3. human nature is incredible suits just gave room to go even faster.
and caleb just says… hold my beer
You have a great name. Классное имя 👍🏻
Just waiting for this to update.
I’m a new swimmer and i really am looking forward to being the state champion i think i have potential
If you put your mind to it and train hard, anything is possible! 💪
я так понимаю, они все 50 метров на задержке дыхания плывут ?
Yes
Жалко конечно русских пловцов. Раньше очень хорошо выступали. О всего союза, а сейчас даже в финал не попадают. Очень жаль.... А такие были ребята.... И водное поло на таком же уровне...
Next : men's 100m butterfly
Starting with how Matt Biondi got caught by Anthony Nesti of Suriname in the last stroke.
NINETEEN POINT he didn’t even flinch…
50 m! Yahoo.
alexander the great!'
1:18 I miss the days when they used tiles on the blocks.
First music??
Popov, period
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Biondi contro di me non avrebbe avuto speranze visto che senza allenamento specifico facevo una vasca in meno di 20"... L'unico problema poteva essere il tuffo per l'ingresso in acqua visto che sono stato sempre negato a tuffarmi
Ok now do every 1500 final
Vladimir Salnikov, Kierren Perkins, Grant Hacket, Oussama Mellouli, Sun Yang, Robert Finke
Ervin the Goat fr
The longevity Olympic Champion, at least. Florent Manaudou did beat him in 2012, admittedly a single year after Anthony Ervin resumed his career. Otherwise, I think Manaudou just edges Ervin just given the fact he won silver in 2021 after a 2 year career pause (2016-2018), and still took Bronze in 2024, despite being almost 34.
And the world record still belongs to Cesar Cielo 😮
in a special swimsuit, it wasnt fair and will never be a fair record
All swimmers at the time used the suit! Sorry, not a valid excuse!
Beijing 2008, that’s when the world was calm. US and China were friends, UA-cam and facebook were still allowed in China, US allowed Chinese tech companies
Popov💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻Russia
Of all the medalists, anthony ervin in my opinion was the most unlikely gold medalist
Next will be Klim Kolesnikov?!