How Swimmer Anthony Ervin Faced His Demons to Win Rio Gold Men's Journal


Anthony Ervin Once Again Claims Olympic 50 Free Gold, Sixteen Years After Original Swimming

Galleries Anthony Ervin: the oldest individual Olympic gold medal winner in swimming Anthony Ervin celebrates winning gold at Sydney 2000 USA swimmer Anthony Ervin smiles after winning gold in men's 50m Freestyle 1 / 5 Anthony Ervin at Rio 2016 2 / 5 Ervin after winning 50m freestyle at Rio 2016 3 / 5 Anthony Ervin with his Olympic gold medals


Anthony Ervin Returning for Olympic Gold As the Oldest Swimmer

Ervin becomes oldest ever Olympic swimming champion. USA freestyler Anthony Ervin, 35, defies his advancing years to win the 50m sprint 16 years after earning a joint gold medal at Sydney 2000. Show more.


anthonyervin2016mesa 2532 Swimming World News

Anthony Ervin, Olympic Medalist in 2000, Comes Back in Swimming - The New York Times Spreading Joy of Swimming, Ex-Olympian Finds It Again By Pat Borzi June 28, 2012 OMAHA โ€” The black.


Anthony Ervin Bio SwimSwam

Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place United States relay team in the 4ร—100-meter freestyle event.


Rio Olympics Anthony Ervin Oldest Swimmer to Win Gold

Anthony Ervin Has Set More Milestones than Almost Any Other Swimmer by Tom Slear//Contributor Anthony Ervin can probably claim more superlatives than any other American swimmer. He's been the first, the fastest, the youngest, the oldest, the longest, and as it was once expressed very delicately, the most interesting.


Jewish Olympian Anthony Ervin Gets Closer to 2nd Gold in 50M Freestyle Jewish & Israel News

Losing His Swimmer Label He had already tried to commit suicide by swallowing a handful of tranquilizers, and he nearly killed himself more than once riding a motorcycle while high on LSD and.


Meet American Olympian Anthony Ervin The OldestEver Individual Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist

American swimmer Anthony Ervin has revealed how he spiralled into a life of alcohol, drugs and sex addiction after he won gold in Sydney in an extraordinary interview coinciding with his Olympic Games comeback.


Anthony Ervin Bio SwimSwam

Ben Proud sits in his room at the Gloria training base in Turkey, reflecting on the "life-changing" time spent in Hawaii with Elliot Ptasnik and Olympic champions Anthony Ervin and Aaron Peirsol.


American swimmer Anthony Ervin hardships to win gold medal in Rio at age 35 Business

Anthony Ervin has capped a remarkable turnaround to become the oldest ever Olympic swimming champion at the age of 35 with victory in the 50m freestyle. The American won joint gold in the.


Anthony Ervin is Back in the Water for the 2012 Olympics Hunk of the Day TSM Interactive

Anthony Ervin has reclaimed the Olympic title in the swimming's fastest race 16 years after he first won it - to cap a phenomenal career comeback. Ervin, who is now the oldest Olympic.


USA Swimming Introduces 2016 Olympic Team Anthony Ervin

Anthony Ervin will compete in Friday night's men's 50m freestyle having been third-fastest in the semi-final. Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Sportblog Olympics 2012: swimming


Anthony Ervin pulls off Olympic swim victories 16 years apart

College swimming Anthony Ervin (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures) Growing up, Ervin swam for the Canyons Aquatic Club in Santa Clarita before choosing to attend the University of.


Anthony Ervin, Olympic Medalist in 2000, Comes Back in Swimming The New York Times

1. He no longer has either of his medals from the Sydney Games. He donated his gold medal for the 50m freestyle to the Red Cross Tsunami relief fund, selling it over eBay and raising just over.


Rio 2016 Olympic Calympian Anthony Ervin, Men's swimming, USA California Golden Blogs

The 37-year-old's life is simply unbelievable: wins Olympic gold as a teenager, hits rock-bottom, becomes homeless and attempts suicide, regains control of life, makes Olympics again, and becomes oldest ever Olympic individual medallist swimmer. It means the American has a different attitude to winning than most. "Winning is not the goal.


Anthony Ervin on Olympic Rule 50 "That's Not Going to Fly"

I n 1983, a two-year-old Anthony Ervin crawled out from his sleeping mother's arms, slid open the glass patio door of his suburban L.A. home and toddled to the edge of the backyard pool. His.


How Swimmer Anthony Ervin Faced His Demons to Win Rio Gold Men's Journal

โ€” Jewish swimmer Anthony Ervin became the oldest Olympic gold medalist in an individual swimming event, at 35 capping a comeback from burnout and drug use in the aftermath of his gold medal at 19.

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