The Olympic champion becomes movie star
The American player Yue Weimusler was thrashing with one arm by turns for one time, and flapping water with two legs for six times, thereby, he broke the world’s record, as the first player who accomplished the 100-metre-free-swimming in one minute! He made it for 59 seconds, which defeated the ffice:smarttags" />Hawaii champion Duke Kahanainku, ten years older than he.
In the following 400-metre-free-swimming, Weisler won again, again, he got the third gold medal. Meantime, he became a hot swimming star. His art of free-swimming was considered the foundation of modern swimming. Finally, won a copper medal for his excellent show in the water-ball game.
Four years later, Weisler won the 400-metre-free-swimming and 100-metre-free-swimming for the second time. The young, handsome and graceful player totally got five gold medals during his four years swimming career, breaking the world’s record 24 times. In the year of 1932, he was employed by a famous movie company. With his unique swimming heroic bearing, he appeared in the movie “human ape tarzon”. Accordingly, he became a dramatic movie star.
泳星成影星
一颗泳星升起在奥运会的上空。来自美国的游泳选手约•韦斯穆勒采用两臂轮流划水各1次，两腿打水6次的方法，创造了新的世界纪录，成为第一个突破100米自由泳1分大关的运动员，他以59秒整的成绩一举击败了比他年长10岁的夏威夷冠军卡哈纳英库公爵。
接着韦斯勒在400米自由泳中获得了第二顶桂冠，继而在4×100米自由泳接力赛中再添一枚金牌。顿时他成为红极一时的游泳明星，同时他的自由泳技术被认为是奠定了现代游泳技术的基础。最后，他以其多才多艺的出色表演，作为美国水球队的一员，又荣获一枚铜牌。
相隔4年，韦斯穆勒在第9届奥运会上再次赢得了100米自由泳和4×100米自由泳接力两枚金牌。这位年轻英俊，风度翩翩的游泳健将在4年的泳坛生涯中，获5枚奥运会金牌，创造了24次自由泳世界纪录。1932年，他受聘于一家著名的电影制片厂，以他特有的游泳英姿，出现在电视系列片《人猿泰山》中，成为引人注目的电影明星。
