Flashback: Great Britain Olympic Water Polo Team

Great Britain's men's water polo team reached the group stage in the London Olympics. It was Britain's first water polo team to compete in the Olympics since Melbourne 1956.

Marcelo Chierighini

Marcelo Chierighini  is a Brazilian swimmer. He competed in the 2012 London Olympics in men's 4x100-meter freestyle and medley relay events.

Chierighini studied in Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. 

Born: January 15, 1991 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 203 lbs
Website/Social Network: http://twitter.com/Mchierighini

Career Highlights:

• Helped Brazil to a ninth-place finish in the London Olympics 4x100-meter freestyle relay, swimming the anchor leg
• Won silver at 2012 NCAA 100-m freestyle
• Competed at 2011 World Championships
• Five-time SEC champion (100 free, 200 FR, 400 FR, 200 MR, 400 MR)

Krisztian Berki

Krisztian Berki is a Hungarian gymnast, specializing in pommel horse event. In fact he is considered to be the best in the event by the International Federation of Gymnastics.

He won a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics in pommel horse event with a score of 16.066, beating British gymnast Louis Smith for the gold.

Born: March 18, 1985 in Budapest, Hungary
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 147 lbs

Career Highlights:

• Hungarian Sportsman of the Year, 2010 & 2011
• won gold at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships
• won silver at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships
• European champion in pommel horse in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012

2012 US Olympic Men's Gymnastics Team | Tribute

Robert Harting

Robert Harting is a German discuss thrower. He won gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics discuss event. He is also currently the  world and European champion in the men's event. 

Born: October 18, 1984 in Cottbus, Germany 
Height: 6'7" 
Weight: 280 lbs 
Website/Social media: derharting.de, Twitter , Facebook 

Career Highlights: 

 • personal best: 70.31 meters, set in May 2012 
 • won silver medak at the 2001 World Youth Championships 
 • won gold medal at the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships 
 • won gold in 2011 and 2009 world Championships, silver in 2007 
 • won gold in 2012 European Championships in Helsinki, silver in 2010 Barcelona

Danell Leyva

Danell Leyva is an American gymnast, a bronze medalist at the men's all around event at the 2012 London Olympics. 

Leyva has Cuban heritage, his mother and stepfather defected from Cuba when he was a year old.

Born: October 30, 1991
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 161 lbs
Website/Social Network: www.danelljleyva.com, Twitter

Career Highlight: 

• in 2009, the youngest member of the US national senior team, at age 17
• won gold at 2011 World Championships parallel bars event
• won bronze at the 2011 World Championships team event
• won gold in 2010 Pacific Rim Championships in team, parallel bars and horizontal bar events; bronze in still rings

 

Recap: Jake Dalton in London 2012

London 2012 results: Jake Dalton placed fifth in men's floor exercises final. The United States team, which he is a part of, also placed fifth in the men's team event. 

Tommaso Rinaldi

Tommaso Rinaldi is an Italian diver. He competed in the 2012 London Olympics, in 3-meter springboard event, placing 24th in the preliminary round.

Rinaldi studies dentistry and medicine in Madrid University.

Born: January 18, 1991 in Rome, Italy
Height:  5'11"
Weight: 78 kg
Website: Twitter

Career Highlights:

• won bronze in  1-meter springboard event, 2006 European Youth Championships
• won silver in 3-meter synchronized springboard event, 2007  European Youth Championships (with partner Andreas Billi)
• finished 7th in 3-meter synchronized springboard event, 2011 European Diving Championships (with partner Michele Benedetti) 

On to Rio

The 2012 London Olympics just closed in a spectacular ceremony that featured pop stars - as varied as One Direction, Spice Girls, George Michael, The Who, The Pet Shop Boys - and Prince Harry. After the ceremony the Games were handed off to Rio de Janeiro, the host of the 2016 Olympic Games.

To recap: the United States led the total number of medals (104)and the number of golds won (46), followed by China (38 golds, 88 total) and by host Great Britain (29 and 65). 

Olympic Update: Boudia Wins Gold, Daley Bronze

Olympic Update: 

David Boudia of the United States won gold in the 2012 London Olympics 10-meter platform competition, beating reigning champion Qui Bo of China. Boudia scored 102.60 in the final dive to move to first place with a total score of 568.65.  Bo scored 566.85

Eighteen-year old Tom Daley of Great Britain won bronze, scoring 556.95. He led the field going into the final dive with a margin of 0.15 points.

Marcel Nguyen in Action

Marcel Nguyen of Germany in action at the London Olympics. Nguyen won silver in the men's all around event, and another silver in men's parallel bars.

Nathan Adrian in Action

Nathan Adrian won 2 golds and a silver in 2012 London Olympics: 100-m freestyle (gold), 4x100-m medley relay (gold) and 4x100-m freestyle relay (silver)

Jake Kaminski

Jake Kaminski is an American archer. He won silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics team archery event, together with his teammates Brady Ellison and Jacob Wukie. They defeated the no. 1 seed South Korea, before losing to Italy in the finals. 


Kaminsky started archery at age 6, and started competing in 1997.

Born: August 11, 1988
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 158 lbs
Website: Twitter, http://jakekaminski.com/ 

Career Highlights:

• 2005 Overall National Champion 
• 2005 All America’s Indoor Champion 
• 2005 & 2006 Jr United States Archery Team 
• 2006 Jr World Team Member 
• 2007 Senior National Team Champion 
• 2007 Merenge Cup Team Silver 
• 2008 Australian Invitational 17th place 
• 2008 Senior National Team Silver 
• 2009 United States Archery Team Member 
• 2009 Mexican Grand Prix Individual Silver 
• 2009 Target Nationals Bronze 
• 2009 Target National Team Champion

Nathan Adrian

Nathan Adrian is an American swimmer who currently holds the United States record in 50 and 100-yard freestyle events.

Adrian won a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics in the 100-meter freestyle event, edging James Magnussen by 1/100 seconds. He also won silver in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, together with team mates Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Cullen Jones.

Born: December 7, 1988 in Bremerton, Washington

Height: 6'6"

Weight: 220 lbs

Website: Twitter

Career Highlights:

• Won gold medal in 2008 Olympics 4x100-meter freestyle relay
• Won 14 medals in international competitions: 11 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
• Five-time NCAA champion, swimming for UC Berkeley
• Won four gold medals at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships
• First American to win 100-meter freestyle in Olympics since Matt Biondi in 1988

Marcel Nguyen

Marcel Nguyen is a Viet-German gymnast. He recently won silver in the 2012 London Olympics men's all-around gymnastics competition, placing behind Japan's Kohei Ochimura. Nguyen also competed in the floor and parallel bars competition at the Olympics.

Nguyen started gymnastics at age four. He became a three-time European champion in bars and men's all around competition.

Born: September 8, 1987 in Munich, Germany
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 119 lbs
Website: Twitter






Career Highlights:

• German junior champion in parallel bars, 2006
• Finished 4th at the 2008 Olympics team all-around competition, 7th in the 2012 Olympics

Hamilton Sabot

Hamilton Sabot is a French gymnast. He recently competed in the 2012 London Olympics, after making an appearance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, reaching 8th in the final of the individual all-around .

Born: May 31, 1987 in Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 139 lbs
Website: Twitter




Career Highlights:

• Competed in 2008 Olympics
• Qualified in 2012 London Olympics

Tom Daley: Diving for Britain

Documentary following Tom Daley, Britain's Olympic poster boy, as he prepares for the London 2012 Olympics.

So Call me, Maybe?

The USA Olympic Swimming Team doing its own rendition of the pop hit "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen.

Meet the 2012 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team

Race Imboden

Race Imboden is an American fencer, currently ranked No. 1 in the United States, and #13 in the world (senior). 


He qualified to compete at the 2012 London Olympics, in men's foil.

Born: April 17, 1993 in Tampa, Florida
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 155 lbs
Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Website: Facebook, Twitter






Career Highlights:

• won gold at the 2012 Pan American Championships (individual and team)
• won gold at the 2011 Pan American Championships (individual and team)
• won gold at the 2011 Junior World Championships 
• won bronze at Cadet World Championships, 2010
• coached by Jed Dupree
• qualified for a major international team at age 16