Olympic medalist Cody Miller gave swimmers back home a vlog tour of the entire Omaha pool and venue following the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials meet last week.
As Miller enters the venue, he jokingly spotted his “greatest accomplishment”: getting his face on one of the doors. After routinely getting checked and scanned in, he takes the camera through the “massive” grand hall, which was converted into the warm-up area and athlete lounge space. There were numerous TVs set up for results and watching the meet live. Throughout the area were little set-up changing tents for athletes that need to get ready on the go. Along with the notable 10-lane, 50-meter competition pool, Miller reveals a second 10-lane, 50-meter warm-up pool in the back area, which is also connected to a six short course lane pool.
Going through the race-ready motions, Miller stepped through the last call room and showcased a set of stairs that leads to the final seating room before the walkway to the competition pool. Exiting the pool, there is a media zone for post-race interviewing and clothing bin pickup area.
Miller also walked through the venue’s Aqua Lounge, which featured the Guinness World Record for the Largest Kick Board in the World as well as a set-up Speedo apparel store. Towards the end of the tour portion of the vlog, Miller showed off scenes of the colorful light show that kicked off each evening finals session.
Miller summed up the Omaha experience as, “Put this on your list of things to do…Make it a priority to someday go to a U.S. Olympic Trials, as a competitor or as a spectator. It is an incredible, wonderful experience.” More insightful quotes Miller said throughout the vlog include:
- “We swim for a variety of reasons.”
- “We train for moments like this.”
- “One day, this could be you.”
- “You are much more capable than you realize.”
- “DREAM BIG.”
In the latter half of the vlog, Miller admitted that, “This meet didn’t go the way that I wanted it to. It could’ve been better.” He says that he will go into more detail about his personal Trials experience in a separate video. Miller swam in the 100 breast and 200 breast in Omaha, where he made it to both events’ semifinals. He bested 1:00.37 for 11th in the 100 breast prelims and hit 2:12.17 in the 200 breast prelims for 11th, followed by a 14th-place finish in semifinals at 2:12.71.
For more Cody Miller content, check out all four of his recent June vlogs down below:
- 6/14/21: FastSKIN 4.0 – The Future of Fast – Reaction & Review
- 6/9/21: Pre Olympic Trials TALK
- 6/7/21: My History with Olympic Trials
- 6/2/21: Tapering for Olympic Trials
YouTube Vlog: “Tour US Olympic Trials 2021”
Good on Miller! Encouraging Olympic dreams.
DC Trident chose to “retain” him (from the 2019 season), so he appears to be planning to swim!
Unpopular opinion- try focusing on training and racing and not making videos for social media.
Training and racing themselves don’t pay the mortgage.
Yes. In order for a guy like Cody to make money in this sport, he needs to rely on more than just his swimming.
But beyond that, the guy seems to love what he’s doing and is enjoying himself. Having fun. Nothing wrong with that.
he trains tops 6 hrs a day, he does do daily vlogs, weekly take some time but i think has plenty of time to train and better to think something else than training.
Cody has done more for the sport of swimming with his Vlogs than all the comments on SwimSwam since it launched, combined. Change my mind.
TBH though, i wonder what cody’s youtube content would be if he stops swimming. not sure if his fans will still patronize his channel post retirement…
That’s a great question, and a very good test. It depends, in part, on what he does next. If he goes into coaching at some high level, for example, there could be continued value in the channel. I think the challenge will be if he goes into some kind of mundane profession like accounting, but I don’t suspect that’s his ultimate career path.
Sometimes it’s OK to call it a wrap and then move on to the next chapter. You don’t have to do one thing for the rest of your life. Cody doesn’t strike me as the type to be defined by one thing. I hope he sticks around a little while in the swimming world — as long as he’s happy and can make a living at it. But whatever he decides to do, he’ll be all right. After all, it wasn’t really swimming that was behind the success of the vlogs. It was Cody himself.
Just imagine, one day there might be someone on the Olympic team for their country who kept pushing because they watched this.
Maybe not the right article to put it out there on, but Cody changed my life forever. Sounds stupid and crazy and I never thought that someone vlogging could do that. I was a low tier HS swimming who was lazy, ate donuts daily, and got eh grades. I’m not sure when it clicked, but I remember watching one of his vlogs the summer after I graduated and realizing that life is what you make of it. If I wanted to be faster that started with eating healthy and be excited about practice. Fast forward a few years and I’m almost graduated. I went d3 and dropped huge times, my grades skyrocketed, and I enjoy salads now. Might be dumb… Read more »
Good for you! The world, and certainly the internet, is big enough for the Codys AND the Cody-haters of this world 😉
I like his vlogs, too. Don’t watch them all the time, but I see young swimmers posting responses to them and I think that’s nice. I’m in my 30s, I don’t want to or need to watch kids do weird stunts on YT, and the vast majority of swimming-related content on there is coaching programs trying to teach triathletes how not to drown. So Cody’s vlogs are a treat.
I doubt it, but prove me wrong.😅
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