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James Dolphin (born 17 June 1983, in Takapuna) is a former New Zealand sprinter who competed internationally at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games. [ 1 ] At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne , Australia Dolphin finished eighth in the 200 metres final .
Jiro Nagasawa (長沢 二郎, Nagasawa Jirō, February 2, 1932 – March 23, 2010) was a Japanese swimmer. He is credited with the invention of the modern butterfly stroke . Although not the first to swim the butterfly-breaststroke, Nagasawa was the first to use a dolphin kick, where the legs stayed together and moved simultaneously up then down.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [a] is a 2007 crossover sports video game developed and published by Sega for the Wii.It was released for the Nintendo DS the following year. . It is the first installment on the Mario & Sonic series, a crossover between Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, with Nintendo releasing the game in Jap
After the 1988 Olympics, a limit of 10 meters was initially set for a few years by FINA officials for the distance a backstroker could swim underwater at their starts and turns, but the use of the underwater dolphin kick at starts and turns with outstretched locked arms would be adopted by a great number of competitive backstroke swimmers as ...
Along with the 2008 Russian presidential election, on 2 March 2008 there was an unofficial election held in Sochi to elect the mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympics. 270,000 voters along with their ballots received a coupon with four mascot candidates: Ded Moroz, a snowflake, a polar bear and a dolphin.
In 1976 she moved, with her family, to Trenton, Ontario, and joined Trenton Dolphin Swim Club, where coach George Sulk trained her. Over her career Abdo garnered a total of 14 national championship medals: 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze - all in her specialty, the backstroke . [ 1 ]
[2] Mario & Sonic on the Wii and DS is a collection of events based on the Olympic Winter Games. Players can assume the role of a Mario or Sonic character while competing against the others in these events. The game features all of the playable characters that were present in its predecessor, as well as four new characters. [2] [5]
The game is the penultimate Olympic video game to be released by Sega, as Sega's license to produce games based on the Olympic Games was discontinued after the release of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 due to the International Olympic Committee pivoting to mobile games produced by nWay for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]