Simone Manuel ties for 100m gold, first black woman to medal in swimming
Source: SB Nation
one Manuel claimed gold in the 100m individual freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics on Thursday night, but she wasn't alone. Canada's Penny Oleksiak touched the wall at the exact same moment to create a double-gold situation in one of the Games' most electrifying finishes. The winning times were an Olympic record -- 52.70s.
Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom finished in third place.
The field trailed Australian Cate Campbell at the turn, but Manuel and Oleksiak powered up as Campbell faded in the final 25 meters. Manuel outkicked everyone but her 16-year old co-medalist, then turned to the results board in astonishment. With the win, she became the first black women in Olympic history to earn a swimming medal.
Read more: http://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/11/12447458/olympics-2016-swimming-results-100m-freestyle-womens-gold-penny-oleksiak-simone-manuel
a kennedy
(29,663 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)a kennedy
(29,663 posts)If she doesn't take the headlines for at least 12 hours......their IS something wrong with the world. SHE WAS A W E S O M E.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Oh man, I need to find her on YouTube now!!
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)Nt
angrychair
(8,699 posts)Watching the medal ceremony now. Amazing young women.
YOUR COUNTRY IS PROUD OF YOU SIMONE!!!
a kennedy
(29,663 posts)Canadian Broadcast Channel
Coverage is a lot earlier than NBC.
Already seen all the swimming and a couple of other things...obviously a Canadian focus but great coverage.
a kennedy
(29,663 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)applegrove
(118,659 posts)year old she is tweeting about meeting Drake. Such a kid. Such a winner. Congrats to them all.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)😊❤️
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)As well as their reaction in the pool to their time.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Aristus
(66,379 posts)on various exercise programs to recommend for ortho and chronic pain patients.
He told me: "Don't recommend swimming to black patients. Black people don't swim."
I don't remember how I responded to that idiocy, but I sure hope he was watching Simone take the medal today...
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LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Denser bones?
Meanwhile, let's review the REAL REASON why Simone Manuel VICTORY is a VICTORY for ALL African-Americans -- and Especially for Any Black Girl In America That Have Been Told: "Swimming Is Not A Sport For You".
Simone just KICKED the SHIT out of that DOOR and STOMPED ALL OVER IT.
But her win is not just meaningful for herselfits a huge moment for black people in the United States. As the Texas native said in a post-swim interview:
This medal is not just for me, its for a whole bunch of people who have came before me and who have been an inspirational for me Maritza Correia [the first black woman to break an American record and the first black woman to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic swim team]. And its for all the people after me, who believe they cant do it And I just want to be an inspiration to othersthat you can do it.
The fact that its 2016 and Simone Manuel is the first black American to medal in an individual swimming event is not surprising if you know anything about American history.
As writer Evette Dionne notes in a piece for The Revelist, public pools in the United States were not traditionally built in black neighborhoods, and public pools have a shameful history of racial segregation. In the 1950s and 1960s, public pools were turned into private pools just to keep black people out of them. Jenée Desmond-Harris wrote a post for Vox appropriately titled Keeping black people away from white swimming pools is an American tradition, and it highlights this atrocious, systemic racism. Jeff Wiltse, the the author of Contested Waters, a book about the history of controversy surrounding Americas public pools, has said that in some cases, integrating swimming pools was even more contentious than integrating schools.
So, there were two ways in which communities racially-segregated pools at the time. One was through official segregation, and so police officers and city officials would prevent black Americans from entering pools that had been earmarked for whites. The other way of segregating pools was through violence.
And so, a city like Pittsburgh, it did not pass an official policy of racial segregation at its pools. But rather, the police and the city officials allowed, and in some cases encouraged, white swimmers to literally beat black swimmers out of the water, as a means of segregating pools, as a means of intimidating them from trying to access pools.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, in Las Vegas in the 1950s, Sammy Davis Jr. took a swim at a hotel and, afterward, the manager drained the pool. So yeah, Simone Manuels win is a big deal, and a highly emotional moment."
http://fusion.net/story/335984/simone-manuel-gold-medal-historic-racism/
Bones Density BS is just that BS!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thanks!
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)Actually in the 2000s (in the below case, 2009).
The end result was that the club was sent into bankruptcy.
And then just last year -
And the perp cop was fired.
What Simone did was for these black children and many millions of others over the centuries here in this country who just wanted to enjoy a pool.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)cannot swim. I don't think the numbers have changed much in 4 years. One of the reasons is lack of access to pools and instructors. I don't agree with what your preceptor said. However, it was a factual statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/water-damage-more-blacks-lack-swimming-skills.html
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Instead of defending or spreading stereotypes,
Help smash them!
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Its a parents worst nightmare: Watching as your child dies just a few feet away while you stand by, helpless.
Maude Warner lived that agony this week when what was supposed to be a fun family outing devolved into tragedy. She, her kids, and some friends were picnicking on the bank of the Red River near their home in Shreveport, Louisiana. One of her sons, 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner, who could not swim, was playing in the shallows when he accidentally stepped off a submerged ledge into the deep. DeKendrix survived, but not before six of his siblings and friends drowned while trying to save him. Maude Warner lost three of her children that day: a 13-year-old daughter, and 14- and 17-year-old sons. Three of their friends also perished, brothers who were 18, 17, and 15 years old.
None of them could swim.
Last summer in New York City, we had seven people drownfour of them adults, three of them children, all of them of minority descent.
Because of the victims race, the gruesome incident has swelled interest in an obscure yet startling statistic: Some 70 percent of African-American youth cant swim, and drowning rates for young blacks are far higher than for whites. Every summer, the grim news reports roll out like clockwork. Two weeks ago, a 12-year-old boy drowned in a neighbors pool in Maryland; his uncle then drowned trying to save him. The week before that, a pair of teenage boys were found at the bottom of a swimming pool in Iowa. And a month prior to that, an 11-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool on Long Island. In every case, the young victim was African American and did not know how to swim.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)TipTok
(2,474 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,789 posts)S_B_Jackson
(906 posts)as a community, we couldn't be happier for them.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)S_B_Jackson
(906 posts)Simone Biles is from Spring, one of several small towns between Houston and Conroe; and Simone Manuel from Sugarland which is SSW of Houston on US 69. Both are distinct cities in their own rights - now sort of swallowed up into Houston's ex-burbs landscape - and I hate to take anything away from those communities.