Showing posts with label Maritza Correia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maritza Correia. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

'Got Milk' Olympic Athlete Poster with detached fingers on swimmer, Maritza Correia shoulder!

I am just seeing this 'Got Milk' poster for the first time some six-months after Beijing. The guy on the far left is obviously Ryan Lochte but you know what is really creepy? If you click on the poster to see the enlargement, the athlete in the middle of the photo, swimmer Maritza Correia, has three fingers on her shoulder and there is no hand connected them!

That sort of killed it for me.

Mistake originally discovered by Photoshop Disasters: [Link]

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Cullen Jones will possibly become one of seven swimmers of Black ethnicity to make it to the Olympic podium

Just how significant is Cullen Jones to swimming? From Swim News.com:

"... Just six black swimmers have made it to the Olympic podium throughout the sport's history: Enith Brigitha (2), Anthony Nesty, Neisser Bent, Anthony Ervin, Malia Metella and Maritza Correia - seven medals for black swimmers out of almost 400 possibilities during the 108 years from Athens to Athens. That's fewer than Michael Phelps on his own. USA Swimming says that less than 1 per cent of America's 232,000 competitors are African-Americans. [Link]

I did a search on some of these names, Anthony Nesty is a coach for the Florida Gators Women's swim team and he beat Matt Biondi to win a gold medal. [Link]

Enith Brigitha pictured to the right was the first female black swimmer to win 2 medals in 1976. [Link]