Team GB’s Male Diving Team Appear In Music Video. Olympic Songs Are Powerful

Facebook gave me a Suggested Post this morning and well, I've only watched it more than I should.  It looks good enough to pass onto my fellow Instincters. 

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From Recognition Network UK,

An introduction to Team GB's Male Diving Team ahead of Rio 2016! Featuring Tom Daley, Chris Mears, Jack Laugher, Daniel Goodfellow, Freddie Woodward. Music: "Comedown" by Puzzle.

The site does mention the team is representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Beautiful bodies in motion, great talent, and what I've seen from interviews and what not, they're great guys, too.  We wish you the best boys.  We wish all our athletes the best and have a safe Olympics. Here's the inspirational video.

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We are sure to see more inspirational songs with new videos as the games get closer.  The other recent one we saw was from Katy Perry called "Rise," which we covered in Britney And Katy Both Drop New Songs Overnight

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Do you remember any other past songs that were Olympic inspired or used in the Olympics?  Do you remember Gloria Estefan's "Reach?"

Written for the Atlanta Games in 1996, Reach was written by power ballad queen Diane Warren and Gloria herself.  – shortlist.com

 

 

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I did not realize that Whitney was an Olympic singer. 

Whitney Houston – One Moment in Time (1988)

This utter anthem was written for the 1988 Seoul Olympics by John Bettis and Albert Hammond – father of Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. An enormous hit, the song reached the top spot in the UK, US and Germany and became one of Whitney's best-loved songs. Just when you think it can't get any bigger, she brings out the old slow-down-into-a-key-change-trick at 4:06. Magnificent. – shortlist.com

 

 

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And you cannot mention Olympic songs or performances without thinking of Freddie Mercury.

Freddie Mercury & Monserrat Caballé – Barcelona (1987, used in 1992)

Where else can one begin but the very best Olympic song of all time? Mercury had been a fan of opera since incorporating elements of it into Bohemian Rhapsody and when Caballé was asked to assist in recording an anthem for the 1992 Barcelona games, she approached Mercury, who jumped at the chance to work with her. Part of a whole album they recorded together, this is an epic coming-together of the worlds of opera, rock and pop: a massive tune and a great video too – which opens with a conductor using what looks like a lightsaber. Amazing. – shortlist.com

 

 

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Can't wait to see what Rio brings.

If you are more into the song from the Team GB release, Comedown, it can be found at https://goo.gl/xe4NLm  and the official music video is below.  I am not sure "Comedown" is on the scale of the other songs mentioned, but then again, I will have to watch the video again and listen to the words instead of looking at the boys.

 

 

 

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