Missy Franklin

• LONDON — — Missy Franklin of Centennial blew away the competition in the first 100-meter backstroke semifinal here Sunday evening, swimming a 59.12 to advance to Mondays final. The top eight in the two semifinals advance to the finals.
(Denver Post)
• Four years ago, in Beijing, Natalie Coughlin became the first American female to swim her way to six gold medals in a single Olympics. Throughout the course of her career, shes won 11 medals.
(Bleacherreport.com)
• July 29, 2012 (LONDON) -- Emily Seebohm of Australia qualified fastest in the 100-meter backstroke preliminaries on Sunday with an Olympic-record time at the London Games. Seebohm touched in 58.23 seconds, lowering the old mark of 58.
(Abc Local Web)
• LONDON — The stands in the Olympic Aquatics Centre stretch seemingly to the heavens on both sides of the pool. D.A. and Dick Franklin, sitting eight rows from the top, certainly felt like they were in the vicinity of Cloud 9 Saturday night.
(Delaware County Daily Times)
• LONDON (USA TODAY) — Missy Franklin was waiting, waiting and waiting — all the while hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. It was the morning of July 20, and she had just awakened in Vichy, France, nearly 5,000 miles from her home in Denver.
(Courier-Journal)
• U.S. Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin said Thursday she was so deeply affected by the movie shootings in the suburb of Aurora, Colo. last week, she will be dedicating all of her races at the London Games to her home state of Colorado.
(YardBarker)
• LONDON -- Swimming star Missy Franklin earned her first medal Saturday, and now she sets her sights on her second career medal in her first Olympic individual event.
(Denver Channel)
• If were going to talk about Missy Franklin, lets get one thing straight first. Missy Franklin is not the next Michael Phelps. Nor is Missy Franklin the next Natalie Coughlin. And Missy Franklin is most certainly not the next Ryan Lochte.
(The Guardian)
• VICHY, France-- The headline at the top of the national daily Liberation screamed, Lenfer a Denver (Hell in Denver).
(Sterling Journal-Advocate)