Misty hyman butterfly video

Throwback Thursday: Misty Hyman and Her Epic Olympic Upset (Video)

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19-20, 2000, Misty Hyman navigated a three-race journey that landed her Olympic glory. Twenty-four years later, we take a look at Hyman’s epic upset of Susie O’Neill in the final of the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Rare are the Olympic events that are considered locks.

While favorites emerge, they are far from invincible, history providing the proof.

Before he won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games, Mark Spitz was the world-record holder in the 200-meter butterfly but flamed out at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, finishing last in the event and nearly eight seconds off his global standard.

In 1976, the East German women had won all but one event on the schedule at the Montreal Games, only to lose the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, to the United States.

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