Video courtesy of the Official Omega YouTube channel.
Omega Timing – the company that provides timekeeping technology for the Olympic Games – has published a short mini-documentary on its YouTube channel looking back at the thrilling 100 fly race in 2008 between Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic.
That Olympic 100 fly race came down to a single hundredth of a second, with Phelps touching out Cavic to keep his quest for 8 Olympic gold medals on track.
The four-minute documentary, which you can watch above, catches up with Phelps and Cavic to relive the race and get both men’s thoughts on the historic moment two Olympic cycles later.
Cavic, who competed for Serbia internationally, was famously a speedster in the front of his races, taking out his 100s at a blistering pace few in the world could match.
Phelps, in contrast, was a notorious closer, charging home over the last 15 meters for numerous comeback victories in his stellar Olympic career.
The two narrate the swim from their own perspectives in the Omega video, plus share some interesting tidbits about their pre-race focus and their reaction to the swim 8 years later.
Here are two links that show underwater views/angles that prove Phelps won that race. I see that there are still sour grapes out there that are unjustified. Here are the links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCmQd-FLbvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nul3EEqE6Kc
Still…nobody talks about the .01 one hundredth that Crocker missed out on bronze!
Strange that Cavic is still unaccepting of the plain truth: that he got second. There is not a thing in the world wrong with that either. He should be more proud of that, he did something almost no one in history has ever done.
And also their showdown at the 2009 World Championships was even more epic and incredible in my opinion.
Wow, Cavic speaks English surprisingly good. For me at least it’s a surprise. I guess he had studied overseas.
Oh, ok. Born and raised in USA. That should explain it :DD
Cavic won. Even Phelps knows that.
Clocks don’t lie.
Or all the still footage of the race capturing it frame by frame, but still if I was Cavic I would have been devastated too. He had that race and finished long with his head up. He keeps that head down and he wins. He learned a valuable lesson, that you have to finish. One he holds dear to this day even when at the dinner table.
What’s up with Cavic’s booties at :24? But again, it’s a nice looking pool; where is it?
Mike Cavic, in the Mr. Roger’s Signature Sweater Collection.
“My gut instinct is that I won” … Huh? Like… it was at the time? Or does he still believe he should have the gold from that race?
These days Cavic appears to be one with the gut, so who are we to doubt him.