NBC And USA Swimming Strike Media Deal Through 2024
NBC Sports Group and USA Swimming have partnered on a media rights agreement that provides NBC Sports Group with exclusive…
Digging Deep With Mike Unger On 2020 Olympic Trials Host
Last week, USA Swimming announced that the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials would be heading back to Omaha, Nebraska for the fourth-straight Olympic cycle. We checked in with USA Swimming Interim Executive Director Mike Unger for some more details on the selection process:
Interim-USA Swimming Executive Director Mike Unger’s TV Experience
“Mike Unger’s vital to the production,” NBC Producer Tommy says, “telling the television director the next event, when the swimmers will parade on deck, who’s going to be in the lead. It’s a big timing crossword puzzle, determining commercial breaks. Mike does it all.”
USA Swimming Names Mike Unger As Interim Executive Director
USA Swimming has named Mike Unger its interim Executive Director to replace the recently-deceased Chuck Wielgus.
USA Swimming Executive Director Search Part 3: Frontrunners
We’ve looked at the job itself and the process USA Swimming will follow in finding a successor. But who are the top candidates to fill the position? We run through some of the early frontrunners here:
“The Last Gold” Premieres at LA Film Festival to Rave Audience Reviews
“The Last Gold: The greatest untold story in Olympic swimming history,” which recounts the struggle the U.S. women’s swim team had against the doped East Germans at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal, opened on Monday at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials Sold Out for Seven of Eight Nights
U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming Sold Out for Seven of Eight Nights; Tickets Remain Only for Sunday, July 3, Final Session
USA Swimming: “Olympic Ring Tattoos Shouldn’t Be An Issue At Trials”
Will swimmers bearing the Olympic rings as part of visible tattoos be DQ’d at U.S. Olympic Trials?
The Last Gold chosen as Official Program Selection for 2016 LA Film Festival
See the film’s trailer here and learn why this is the Greatest Untold Story in Olympic Swimming History.
100,000 tickets sold for 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in 6 weeks
The high level of competition to claim a U.S. Olympic spot and the return of Olympic legend Michael Phelps will make the competition fierce once again when the Trials begin on June 26 in Omaha.
Despite FINA Vote, USA Swimming, Pan Pac Nations Push Forward With Video Replay
USA Swimming used underwater cameras to review all DQ calls made at the 2014 U.S. Nationals, and the founding nations of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships agreed to do the same in the Gold Coast.
Backstroke Ledges “Unlikely” to Be Ready in Time for Mesa Grand Prix
After originally hoping to debut the newly-approved “backstroke wedges” for the Mesa Grand Prix in April, USA Swimming and Omega…
USA Swimming Hopes to Unveil Backstroke Wedges at Mesa Grand Prix
A rendering of an early version of the backstroke wedge start blocks that Omega and Myrtha Pools are developing.
US World Trials GoPro Video Walk Through, Featuring Rowdy Gaines Masters Swim Practice
Photo Credit: Mike Lewis, olavistaphotography
USA Swimming’s Unger Explains Why Omaha Won The Olympic Trials Bid
Mike Unger was a part of USA Swimming’s livestream presentation today to announce which of the top three cities would…
