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Ambrose Rowdy Gaines IV (born February 17 1959) is a former American match swimmer U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame member three-time Olympic gold medalist and member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He is currently the chief fundraiser for USA Swimming as well as a swimming analyst for television networks ESPN and NBC including coverage of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics and the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Rowdy Gaines was born on the , which was a Tuesday. Rowdy Gaines will be turning 67 in only 208 days from today.
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Rowdy Gaines is 66 years ancient. To be more precise (and nerdy), the current age as of right now is 24096 days or (even more geeky) 578304 hours. That's a lot of hours!
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I was watching NBC’s live coverage of the second semifinal in the men’s 50-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics on Thursday when French swimmer Florent Manaudou stepped out for the introductions to a roar from the hometown crowd.
He was dressed in those cool alabaster puffer-like swim robes and then proceeded to slowly extract the robe, much to my delight and that of NBC swimming announcers Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines and gay men (and many straight women) everywhere. This is what soon appeared on my TV:
Je suis amoureux
Get off the sidelines and into the game
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Hicks: “I like to contact this a giant boy race. Flo is 6-feet-6, 220 pounds and he likes to flaunt it a brief bit.”
Gaines: “Wow. My team is the Tampa Bay Bucs and they might want to offer this guy a ring.”
A minute later, when they showed Manaudou on the starting blocks, Hicks said, “There’s the showman.” “Whoa,” was all Gaines had to add.
Whoa indeed. And Hicks and Gaines weren’t the only going gaga over the French body beautiful. Here is what Google trends sho
Recently, Asst. Sports Editor Dean Anagostopoulos had the chance to catch up with both former Olympic swimmer Rowdy Gaines and LMU women's swimming Coach Bonnie Adair. Gaines and Adair shared their thoughts on indoor pools reopening and how the COVID-19 era has affected pro swimmers, collegiate athletes and people all over the Merged States.
Gaines is a retired three-time Olympic gold medalist and Olympic and International Swimming Hall of Fame member. He is finest known for competing in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where he won gold at age 25, making him at the time the third-oldest sportsman ever to win gold at an Olympic Games. Over the years, Gaines has served as a great inspiration for many prospective athletes and continues to speak about his unique story to earn where he is now. Today, Gaines is the LIMU Brand Ambassador and a swimming analyst for NBC and ESPN.
Adair is coming into her 17th season as an LMU swimming coach. During Adairs swimming career, she place 35 national age team records which included a 50 meter freestyle document that remained the finest for 29 years. Adair competed in 12 national championships and two olympic trials, all while becoming a national finali
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Ambrose Gaines IV, better known by his friends as "Rowdy," was one of the world’s fastest swimmers in the 1980s.
A 22-time NCAA All-American who broke several nature records from 1978 to 1984, no one would guess Gaines had a rough time with sports as a boy—that is, until he tried swimming as a junior in high school.
In the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Gaines was predicted to win no less than five gold medals up until the United States decided to boycott the Olympic Games.
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Thinking his Olympic run was over, Gaines retired shortly after graduating from Auburn in 1981. But when Gaines’s father encouraged him to keep swimming, he recommitted himself to the sport, and within a year he broke his own world record in the 200m freestyle at the Earth Championships.
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At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Gaines returned to the spotlight, winning three gold medals—the most of any swimmer that year. But Gaines didn’t keep the glory for himself. Instead, he gave away each of his medals: one to his coac