Hi! Just wanted to pass on the name of a movie I watched last night- "Swimming Upstream". It was a good flick based on a true story about a champion backstroker from Australia. It portrayed his life from childhood and his endless pursuit to please his father. It was motivating to see the guy train so hard.
Does anyone know of any other good movies about swimming or swimmers?
Wow, what a movie. That guy Ben, why he could go over to the pool any time of day or night and swim in the pool. He had keys to any room in the school. And the coach would always say Ben, keep focused, stop thinking about that girl friend. I remember in the movie the coaches from Stanford came to look at the Ben and the guys in the 100 Free go 1:43 for future recruitments. And then the mandatory drug testing before all of the local high school meets where its real easy to spike the tests. Poor Ben got his samples spiked and couldn't be recruited by Stanford.
It seemed like anybody could get into the swimming pool anytime of day or night and our hero Ben had to save his girl friend from the jealous swim fan with a battle in the pool.
Wow, what a movie. That guy Ben, why he could go over to the pool any time of day or night and swim in the pool. He had keys to any room in the school. And the coach would always say Ben, keep focused, stop thinking about that girl friend. I remember in the movie the coaches from Stanford came to look at the Ben and the guys in the 100 Free go 1:43 for future recruitments. And then the mandatory drug testing before all of the local high school meets where its real easy to spike the tests. Poor Ben got his samples spiked and couldn't be recruited by Stanford.
It seemed like anybody could get into the swimming pool anytime of day or night and our hero Ben had to save his girl friend from the jealous swim fan with a battle in the pool.
