Las Vegas’ Claire Weinstein Swims Past Katie Ledecky, Wins Title

It has been an incredible run for Katie Ledecky. Seven Olympic gold medals for her swimming prowess and absolutely dominant in the 200-meter freestyle. She hadn't lost to another American in nearly a decade. Until last Wednesday when 16 year old Claire Weinstein shocked the world at the U.S. Swimming Championships and beat Ledecky to take home the national title. She beat out Katie by the narrowest of margins: two one-hundredths of a second. 1:55.26 versus 1:55.28. An absolute nailbiter to the finish!

The teenage swimming phenom has been making waves (so to speak) for a while now. A member of Las Vegas' own Sandpipers Of Nevada competitive swim team, she is the first to beat the 7-time Olympian in the coveted 200-meter freestyle in nearly a decade.

She took home the national title in Indianapolis and is headed to Japan next for the World Aquatics Championships later this month. But she is no enemy of Ledecky. They are teammates on Team USA.

Weinstein, along with Katie and two others, won the gold medal at Worlds last year in the 4x200 freestyle. In a post-swim interview, Claire was just thrilled to make Team USA once again.

Before Las Vegas, Claire was living in upstate New York and getting attention for her talent even then, as an 8th grader. She was nearly half dolphin by the time she was 6! Definitely born with talent, and honing it daily with her hard work and effort.

She moved to Las Vegas in September 2021 and hasn't looked back since. The group she is a part of, the Sandpipers Of Nevada, hone their craft at pools throughout the valley, from county owned to the Durango Hills YMCA. They've been an organization since 1968 and have had a lot of recent success getting national attention.

We wish Claire a ton of luck on representing the USA in the World Championship later this month! But she doesn't need luck. She's got the goods.

Many of the Olympic stories we know and love come from movies based on moments in Olympics history.

We take a look at ten movies based on Olympic athletes and their stories.

This movie, starring John Candy, about Jamaican bobsledders who go for the gold even though they’ve never seen snow is a classic. Over the years, the movie has become a cult hit.
https://youtu.be/4BqngFzt-cU

Margot Robbie stars as disgraced figure skater and Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding. Though Harding was the first American woman in history to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy has since been defined by her association with the infamously botched attack on her fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Allison Janney won an Oscar for playing her abusive mother.
https://youtu.be/OXZQ5DfSAAc

A Disney classic starring Kurt Russell. A film is based on the triumph of the U.S. men’s hockey team over the Soviet team at the 1980 Olympics during the Cold War.
https://youtu.be/Bd0_Dm2xlEM

Will Ferrell and Jon Heder star in a wacky film about figure skating. Fun fact: This is one of few major movies about the Games that didn’t secure rights to the Olympics name.
https://youtu.be/UrZb-dZKCIQ

An early favorite for fans starring Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney about a spoiled figure skater and a sidelined hockey player who are paired to face off against Soviet competitors.

Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton star in this movie inspired by the life of spirited British ski-jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards.
https://youtu.be/hyzQjVUmIxk

This was the movie about long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine. The movie stars Billy Crudup as Prefontaine.

Robert Redford and Gene Hackman star in a sports drama about a skiing prodigy who joins the U.S. team to compete internationally. Sylvester Stallone made his film debut in this movie as an extra.
https://youtu.be/ZXFKRZQAW10

An Oscar winner for Best Picture, "Chariots of Fire" tells the true story of British athletes Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, from different faiths, who ran in the 1924 games.
https://youtu.be/odtqtlhsv4E

This Steven Spielberg thriller depicts the aftermath of the 1972 Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film stars Eric Bana and Daniel Craig.
https://youtu.be/gqX7H1-n10s

We really can't believe it. This week marks the first anniversary of Aimee+Shawn and 102.7 VGS! Wow, that year went FAST! Look at us! We were just babies!

Thank you to everyone that made it out to our Birthday Bash at The Industrial Sound! Truly, we would not have this amazing job without our amazing listeners. From the bottom of our hearts, we appreciate you waking up with us every morning.

One person that didn't appreciate us this week is Nicole. Nicole has to be perhaps the luckiest and most snake-bitten contestant we've ever had on the show. She tried all week to win tickets to see Tina Fey & Amy Poehler at Resorts World Theater this November. She got into Radio Roulette every day this week! That's beyond lucky! What's unlucky? She lost. Every. Single. Time. We felt so bad, we decided to do something about it.

Aimee's husband really did it this time! What'd he do? He didn't trip over himself to congratulate Aimee for not killing plants she bought. Now they are in therapy. No, seriously.

Shawn and Aimee really try to be great parents, and they mostly get the job done! But it turns out both of them have done things that have legit traumatized their kids. What did they do?! And why does Shawn has his kids' reminder of trauma hung up on the wall?

The winning continues in the 102.7 VGS Very Good Summer™! Listen all next week to score tickets to see Big Time Rush, Max and Jax at MGM Grand Garden Arena on August 12th! Listen and win at 7:35 and 9:35!

Plus, tickets to see Ed Sheeran at Allegiant Stadium on September 9th! Score those tickets at 8:35!

Have a great, safe, and let's face it - a bit sweaty - weekend!

Imagine your car burns in a fire in a hotel parking lot. Then, only a year prior, your HOUSE burned down due to fire? How unlucky can you be... and what is next?!

It sounds silly but it is true. Aimee didn't kill plants for once, and Patrick didn't fawn over her ability to keep a living thing alive. Now they are in therapy.

There were so many old school toys we loved when we were younger. Some seem to make it back, but there are others that need to return too!

There is a Smith's in northwest Las Vegas with the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. Aimee tells her tale of nearly dying and witnessing a robbery while she was at it. 

While Aimee got an early start, Shawn's first drinks came much later and fruitier.

New audio has come out with former President Donald Trump essentially admitting the classified documents he had were, indeed, classified. Imagine if that had happened with other major scandals...

If you're a teen and you are working, you might as well get some perks. We run down the best jobs for teens.

The station and our show is celebrating our first birthday and we are thinking back to the birthday party memories from parties past...

It's hard to believe, but Aimee and Shawn got together for the first Aimee+Shawn one year ago today! We look back at the last year...

A new Gallup poll is showing 1 in 5 are now "loud quitting"... which they define as actively trying to harm the business by undercutting goals. Have you ever LOUD quit?

She was easily one of the most attentive and caring moms... but her kids are out of the house now. So Amberly has become the 102.7 VGS station mom and is one step away from licking her thumb and wiping stuff off our face.

Occasionally Las Vegas strip shows don't go according to plan. Shawn recalls a time he saw "Absinthe" at Caesars Palace in one of their first shows give an audience member a brutal thwack to the head.

Aimee asked her son about his core memories. Turns out... she traumatized him. Why both her and Shawn's kids are messed up due to them.

Five days. That's how many times Nicole got in to play Radio Roulette for tickets to see Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Five times. That's how many times she lost. Wow.

It's not full-blown emotional or physical cheating. It's smaller than that... microcheating. Is it really cheating? Are you guilty? Are they?!