Raising an Olympian: Ryan Lochte

Bravo!!!!

keep up the great ads P&G

i will bet coming in first helps

Go Gators!

It's nice to see a nice kid coming out of the "me, me, me" generation of bad parenting.

Ryan seems pretty humble about his amazing skill :) great guy, great talent :D

Good Luck ... Team USA*

we all just gotta enjoy the ride. good luck!

Ryan is from the Finger Lakes region and it's wonderful that we have a former local to cheer on at the Olympics.

So, was that a Grill or Expensive Braces? I didn't realize it was so important for Olympic Swimmers to 'Represent'.

The only thing I noticed when this was passing by the Yahoo! News slideshow was his teeth...go back and look. They look like friggin diamonds.

Don't disrespect him by saying if Michael had been swimming, he wouldn't have won. Well, who haas the world records? Not Michael Phelps. Even if Michael had been swimming, then Ryan would have won with his WORLD records.

I'll say this about swimming now vs. when I was an ankle biter: Heavy yardage is completely wasted on kids under the age of (puberty). All I remember is my coach and my parents screaming about how I needed to try harder and "want it" more. All I could think was: "Why would anyone want to win a swim race? You could give it away and no one would be interested." Anyway, my kick was atrocious and my legs just sank, but I could out pull and out dry-land exercise myself above and beyond what the A + "golden child" swimmers could do. What does that tell you about yardage without technique? When I was in high school, a woman who won an olympic medal coached me my senior year. She suggested flexibility was my problem, but we never really approached this with specific training. I finally decided to do some hammie curls for a few weeks on my own time, but so my soccer performance could improve. Two days before the district swim meet, I actually went from dead last in kicking drills to first in all intervals for an entire workout. That district meet, I was entered in a 100 backstroke event, and I swam so much faster than I was used to that I smashed into the wall during two turns, had to stop and orient both times, and still stayed in the race. The coach, no mean judge of pace in the pool, said I would've turned in around a 56 second hundred without the crashes and despite the really bad start technique, and that I went from dead last to almost leading two times in one 100 meter (short course) race. I still put in a 1:05 or thereabouts. That's the difference technique makes, and that's why 8 hours of workouts a week and all the pressure in the world make no difference at all to a kid who's just getting ridden into the ground and blamed for his seniors' lack of leadership qualities. That's also the difference between Lochte and about 1000 other kids the same age. His Mom was a leader first, a parent second, and a coach last. That and he's double jointed- can't swim at elite speeds without that!

Fart power? That was my guess what makes him faster!

I'll bet it doesn't work as good as Michael's "secret weapon"... pot :)

best of luck. bring some gold medals back to America :)

Secret to breaking a world record at swimming swim faster than anybody has swam before!

you think mommy pushed and pushed and pushed, had to sleep in the bath tub full of water??

His other "secret" is that he is gay.

I don't blame average ppl going negative blah blah with their mouth. If you never swam, you have noooo idea what it is to even get to Olympics. It's not some crack dealer releasing a radio hit song. And i'm not saying in any other sport but in swimming get this TWICE a day, two hours per practice every day for years. The swimming olimpian practices are brutally draining and insanely exhausting. Burning 10,000 thousand calories a day is no joke ppl. So bow to them with respect.