belongs on strong typing scandal the scotsman boasts a record six olympic goals and insists a winning account be done without drugs. or minus one for the sport it's not worth your this is a majority said first that he's retiring it's a concern there kareem for sure in the winter which can be three hundred thirty years for sure the military support one such. now the winter olympic torch has been unveiled and will soon be delighting out russia on its journey from moscow to the host venue of sochi michael crecente has the latest developments as russia prepares for the first winter games. so the countdown to the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics continues with now only three hundred eighty two days until the opening ceremony the latest news to come from the organizing committee was the unveiling of the olympic torch which will travel from moscow to sore cheek passing through the entire country on the route making it the longest olympic torch relay in the history of the games. our main aim is to bring the whole country together and on the map you can see that the torch will go everywhe

all the money goes to the special olympics and the special olympic athletes. thank you for being here. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great. this is impressive, isn't it? >> unbelievable. the energy is amazing. the way our athletes warm people's souls, it's a balmy day out here. >> you said that so-so well and it's true. jimmy myrick one of the first people who started the super plunger last night came in and everybody went crazy. >> unbelievable inspiration to us all. he embodyies the concept that athletes transform lives and build a better community. >> it must be an honor to have your job here with special olympics maryland because to be around such special people. >> the word honor is right. i'm the luckiest person here to be able to work with people like you and everybody who comes out to support. we will have 20,000 people out here. 11,000 will go in the bay to raise $the 2.6 million to raise the statewide funds. >> i say you should go once in your life. >> that's absolutely right. we want to connect more people to the mission. people come out here and

>> you're a special olympics athlete, and all you guys are special olympics athletes.ll the people plunging for you guys, what do you think? >> it's so much fun, and i'm so happy to have all these people who care. >> well, you guys are cold. how are you doing, angle? >> i'm doing wonderful. i'm tired but having a blast. this brings joy to my heart. every year when we do this event, it brings me such great joy. these people want to be a part of our lives and community and that's great. >> go get warm, babies. thank you very, very much. >> you're welcome! >> big plunge today at 1:00. y'all will have finished 24. >> i'll see you next year. >> ok, baby! >> we have more to go. let's do this! >> we're going to do it. all right! special olympic athletes, in my opinion the greatest athletes in the world. rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news and we'll be hear all morning. back to you guys. >> all right, robby, we have a lot of questions. we have been hear every year and still have questions. we will ask him throughout the morning what you folks at home are asking about. if you know some

to come down and watch the olympics games and. the nation how it is inspired a lot of people that is get involved in sport although for those who do sports and just watch the one great thing in common the unique feeling of being part of the british sporting event on the planet i think it's a emotional impact it's had on the whole of the country it's galvanized by scotland wales and england it has been really fantastic it's quite nice atmosphere and yeah it's really fun i just think it's been amazing it's been in london so my home city just being able to come up to london enjoy the atmosphere. with everybody around from all over the well it's just been fantastic the huge investments in the london twelve summer olympics are definitely expected to materialize in the term benefits for the whole country but on top of all that is simply the way the games just made people feel i. i i i. i . so the hosts great britain along with those who came here into the building give. coverage for our team. well meanwhile the london paralympics was al

well that's all for part one but stating the party where we hear from an olympic. legend has just announced tara time and after winning every medal in with make gymnastics twenty two year old yevgenia cannot have it says goodbye to the sport she's dominating ficek she is a change from all. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. to me speak to language. all programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks books the v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. then try. to find out more visit our big don't teach dog called. what mystery is hidden deep the nice. visit to the north welcome here. traps laid for intruders. and the supernatural cannot arise for. and nowhere. can the human be possessed by the water spirit. mistress of the cave on aunty. so. welcome back to part two of the spor

now after a disappointing vancouver winter olympics russia is hoping to spring a surprise at their home games in sochi in a relatively new sport as form austria coach matty our efforts say that aims to lead russia to the podium in ski cross should jump or three times more. don't often see their looks young enough still to be competing however injury put paid to the thirty four year old's promising downhill skiing career. he's turned his attention to coaching ski cross discipline he's extending at them and now he's firmly fixed on trying to get russia on to the podium at next year's olympics in soncino. head that a lot of success and that's a good lot of experience and that i think was the reason why i'm coming to europe to bring some experience to the russians for the first specially and so yeah of course is just he crosses a young sport but i think it's so it has to limit because he's one of his big stick and yeah i think it's been next olympics i think it's really fun for the guys and for everybody on the day we can watch it and. profit status on russia struggles in vancouver first ha

well as overbought long but stagings important to you when we hear from an olympic legend who has just announced terry time and after winning every medal in which make gymnastics twenty two year old yevgenia come out of it says goodbye to the sport she's dominated for six years a changeable. we speak your language as anybody will or not i am. what news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little eternity of angola's kid stories. are you here to. enjoy it all to spanish find out more visit actuality t.v. dot com. her eye. the speed. limit . welcome back to part two of the sports show and now to something extreme windsurfing has long being established and enjoyed worldwide but not everyone has easy access to water however michael crouch and co discovered how russian adrenaline junkies found that tentative windsurfing is synonymous with the ocean the beach and the sun thousands take to the waves every year while the sport is gaining in popularity but it's a completely different prospect when you swap the water for snow which is how many russians make

that she also took at the olympics. and the title in german is shown here. >> is there another picture? >> basically, the title means something to the effect of the beauty of the olympics. and there are-- >> oh, i see. jesse owens. >> jesse owens is in this book. >> fantastic. >> he was one of the big winners there who represented america and adolph hitler was there. >> criticized him, yet he won four gold and he had to walk out on him. >> this is considered one of the more beautiful-- >> classic. >> -- photographic books about the olympics. >> classic. carl, we're almost out of time, but we got them all in. i want to thank you for being here, and i hope to see you there, too. >> yes, i would love to see you there and encourage people to come and take a look at all the great books. >> thank you for being with us. and thank you for joining on this day with us for these rare books. i'm ron swisher. [silence] [silence] [silence] for those dealing with the daily struggles of caring for a loved one, we hear you. that's why a

the second half of the journey we just just talked about on olympic park. what i'm doing now, helping to promote british expertise off the back of the games from around the world, to help other countries experience the extraordinary high of delivering great sporting events. there are british businesses, a british organizations that can help do that. >> the bbc world international audience around the world -- how hard have others made good use of the olympic parks in the future? >> it has always been a challenge. from the outset, we were very keen to establish an enshrined legacy and master planning. that is everything from, what does the site, what is the area look like in 10 years' time? how do you design a venue to make sure that ultimately the maximum usage is realized? >> before we close, a reminder our top story on gmt. we can take you to the scene live in cairo's tahrir square, where thousands of demonstrators had gathered to mark the second anniversary of egypt's's uprising. many calling for new change in egypt. that is it from us. thank you for watc

so chilling with the olympics going to be spent when i was there actually they rate around the time when they were talking about it being in the olympics and that was the spring i was there in february there's all i feel like they were talking about and we're like there's no way that's happening and then we got home and had the olympics because i was nobody but but but but people say especially guys like you know the off piste extreme skis that it's one of the best places and in the world in custody is that true that is definitely true i've been fortunate to snowboard around the world and i hold. some of the best in the world and ones that i would love was so special about cole it's the proximity to the ocean. a coastal snow pack so the snow sticks to steeper. slope as you know it's a for less avalanche danger still still plenty of allies danger but much more manageable and it's just the shape of the mountains the quality of the snow is beautiful i mean the sights and for you to fall it's very manly. there relatively unexplored which is you can't say that about you know maybe i speak lik

the bolshoi is dome an olympic stadium are already close to completion. so, too, are the new infrastructure links including a brand new train line and highway. it is an ambitious and costly undertaking being pushed through with an iron will. this is a pet project of vladimir putin. neither cost nor other people's opinions seem to matter. on a recent visit, the russian president reminded the people whose idea it was. >> i drove up here in a jeep right through the river. there was nothing here but beehives. i pointed to this spot, and that was the spot for the olympics. >> a to was also the start of a huge construction project. tens of thousands of workers were brought in from central asia to build sporting venues, ski lifts, and hotels. even state-owned gas giant has built its own five-star hotel. and a banker on good terms with the kremlin has built an entire mountain for the -- village italian style. just a stone's throw away, it is another world. many of the 2500 villagers say they feel excluded from the party on their doorstep. anatoly runs a car repai

well it will burn in wind frost and underwater that's the pledge of the creators of the olympic torch for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi it's a new shape design has just been unveiled in moscow so i want cesar when i went to check it out. the olympic games in sochi are coming sooner than you may think and of course the integrity part of in the olympic games is the torch bearers of the relay which is due to happen to start very very soon as that will go over it will cover all it is three of the subjects of russian federation the organizers of feeling the games in sochi are even thinking of taking the torch all the way to the north pole and even into open space their point of the entire torch relay will be uniting russia that's what the organizers told us at the press conference today and what i'm wearing right now is actually the official going to form off the torch bearers this is the representing the colorful nature of russia itself a country with a very rich tradition a lot of very rich culture the we're going to have said that the the designer of the torch itself has bee

players appearing in the two thousand and fourteen olympics in sochi have you heard anything related i want to make is that it's not part of the collective bargaining agreement which is bad but i hope that it will be enough for understanding from n.h.l. not to should lead because it's a fact of lives that after every olympics when they chose put it just a page it was a boost for stanley cup and for development a fork in the so many people can't show now is in its fifth season. and soviet union ever wanted to buy five year plans etc are you happy with the developments educate chel five years on you know the progress was substantial but with the norwegian officials this week. and for the next five years i was assured of that step by step will become better and better and. as a player a sense of friends will see it. on the ice and explain any plans to expand in sweden finland i told you that we would have learned to explain that with the clubs as a nation a little less and obviously we would prefer to have a lot from the country just like finland sweden may be. germany. but we should no

he's completed in three olympic games.s before we finally hear lance armstrong's reported admission to using performance enhancing drugs. the 2 1/2 hour interview will be shown over the next two nights. peter flax is editor-in-chief of bicycling magazine. how are you? >> good morning. i'm okay. at least lance can feel like he has the second strangest sports story of the day. >> i never thought anything could outshadow the lance armstrong story but i was wrong. >> it's a strange day. >> lance armstrong has been asked to give back his bronze medal. do you suppose that the olympic committee will say eventually give back all of your medals? >> i think this is the only olympic medal he will have to give back although he competed in multiple games. i think there is the only one that they are going to ask for and one of the ironies, the man who got the silver medal and the person who came in fourth who presumably would get bronze are already people who have been convicted or implicated in doping scandals. so the whole thing is is

not to shoot their leg because it's a fact of lives that after every olympics when and it shows but it just separated was a boost for stanley cup and for development a fork in the so many people can't shell now is in its fifth season. and soviet union ever wanted to buy five year plans etc are you happy with the developments of the cage. five years on yes the progress was substantial but with the norwegian officials this week. and for the next five years i was assured that step by step will become better and better and. as a player a sense of friends will see it. all nice and explain any plans to expand but in sweden finland i told you that we would have learned to explain that puts the clubs as a nation all the rows and obviously we would prefer to have a block from the country just like finland sweden maybe a series on germany. but we should not forget that literally it also has a great history of playing a cork in milan is a good one the number one candidate to join the next season so after all that hockey let's move on to football and then following his training ground bust up with

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in two thousand and seven it was also a time even to russia who are hoping to reduce their first olympic snowboarding champion at next year's home games in sochi. now russia's top basketball club says goal moscow hope to reach the final four of the euro league for the tenth time in eleven years ams to help them legendary coach authority messina is back in charge after spells at rail madrid and the l.a. lakers which of import reports the jury has seen a serious crowd's most successful coach in the club's history. he wanted the thing that was to weigh in with the army men in his first spell with the team from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine after a three year break the italian is back and looking to lead the russian and fit to further excess of domestically and in europe and send turn and increased each underlined just what an important influence the fifty three year old is to the club is one of those cautious in europe you know he has the so many experiences and. some couple different themes send you know he has a vin experience and i think. he's big plus for us you know an

if you visited so much you know not only our olympic objectives many other projects as the ship of the formal one track the russian state of the season two thousand and fourteen. finally there's also some good news for the world's press as the cutting edge media center is also near to completion with still more than a year to go until the opening ceremony at russia's maiden winter olympics stephen it's r.t. moscow. and that's all the sports news i have. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia when the very profit out of them is a very high return on investment. which is good though i mean he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to play the armed groups and they are motivated by this i knew that not a managers of change their name and strategy but just till the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment very upset on that mr president was soon. to president clinton. but the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead end. he says he's sick of the stuff your bullshit

gold medalist in the olympics. he's got a show called "what would ryan lochte do". >> you've got to be kidding me. >> how he's getting ready for the next olympics and developing his own fashion line. this on top of media appearances and going shirtless and dealing with family and friends and searching for a girlfriend, if you recall lochte's actually a pretty good swimmer. won five medals including two gold at the 2012 london games. the show will debut in april. feature all sorts of lochtisms including his catch phrase. >> i think he should just keep it in the pool. thanks for being with us. join us tonight. what class do you wanna take? oh, anything that doesn't have the word "strip," "salsa," or "beatz" with a z in the name of it. cardio hip-hop groove it is then. hey, what's up? hey! nothing, just... going into the same class you're going into. cool. hey, i hope i don't sweat on you. you can sweat on me. this is my girlfriend, liz lemler. hi! that's liz lemon. oh, the girl who got my flowers. yes. hope you enjoy

but if you visit it so much you know because they not only our olympic objectives many other projects that ship the session of the formal one track that who hosted the russian state of the season that in october two thousand and fourteen a formal finally there's also some good news for the world's press as the cutting edge media center is also near to completion with still more than a year to go until the opening ceremony at russia's maidan winter olympics the state vents moscow. and that's all the sports news i had. the first baby steps i joined. foals and bones are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma. for children can be broken by bare touch. and only the will of life can make open. source way. fragile people on are today. cheer the reindeer is it interesting for the herders. and when it suffers people do their best to help. but the distances are. and the roads are tough and unpredictable. and chopping. the book. please speak your language as. well as programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on the t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip inte

not to shoot their leg because it's a fact of lives that after every olympics when they chose put it just a page it was a both for stanley cup and for development a fork in the so many pick h.l. now is in its fifth season. and soviet union everyone talks about five year plans etc are you happy with the developments of occasional five years on the progress or substantial but with the norwegian efficiency. and for the next few years sure is a step by step of will become better and better and. first of all see it. on ice. any plans for expansion sweden finland and i told you that we would have learned to explain about the surge of the clubs as a national rose and obviously we would prefer to have a block from the country just like finland sweden maybe. germany. but we should not forget that it literally also has a great history of play the cork in milan is a good one the number one candidate to join the next. so after all that hockey let's move on to football and then following his training ground bust up with manager at about a month chaney manchester city striker mario balotelli has a

as brazil prepares to host the next olympic games, it raises urgent questions about how seriously the authorities take public safety. >> gary is in saon palo, we can talk to him now. the death toll has been put at 231. do you want to bring us up-to- date on that? >> the latest information is that some 80 of those centers are described as in a very serious condition, there is a lot of concern amongst waiting relatives. this has been a bit -- a very anxious and distressing time. so, the whole town is in a state of shock. shared widely by the brazilian people, the message to the family is that we are all in this together. brazilians waking up today have been very distressed by the coverage, hearing these personal stories coming from people about others who died together, young people, students who died in this tragedy. >> i know people are grieving, but in any sense is there people becoming angry about what happened? >> some other information is coming that tells us something about the possible state of confusion within this club. we mentioned a few times that a number of people were try

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help the special olympics of maryland.ack in a moment to tell you how cold it is for those plungers at sandy point. [ telephone rings ] good evening, this is flo. [laughs] yes, i'm that flo. aren't you sweet! licensed phone-ups available 24/7. call 1-800-progressive. >> good morning. bay water temperatures this morning up and down the bay mostly in the mid 30's. air temperature, 26 degrees at the beaches. northwest wind at 12 producing a 16 wind chill out there. so it's a little raw for those plungers out there both in the water and in the air. snow flurries have been moving across the area. our forecast gets up near freezing for the high. >> thank you john and thank you for joining us and donating to special olympics maryland. back in 25 minutes for another update. >>> welcome back to "today," saturday morning, the 26th day of january, 2013. my oldest son's birthday. cold weather couldn't keep this crowd from coming out on the plaza as they say hello to friends and family. our thanks to them for spending part of their sat

the head of the anti doping body said today armstrong should have already returned the olympic medal without having to be asked. >>> it's been nearly six months now since a gunman opened fire in the packed movie theater in aurora, colorado, killing 12 people, wounding 58 hours. tonight the theater is reopening for the first time. private ceremony for victims and first responders. it's not without controversy. it's being boycotted by some of the victims' families who say it's insensitive to reopen the theater at all. >>> and following the aurora massacre and the mass shooting in newtown, connecticut, the president is now trying to build public support for his sweeping plan to curb gun violence. and he will need it. our political director and chief white house correspondent, chuck todd, has our brand new polling numbers about how americans are feeling about gun laws. >> reporter: a day after the president unveiled his recommendations to curb gun violence -- >> this is our first task as a society. keeping our children safe. >> reporter: the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows

judo wrestlers sent a written complaint to the country's olympic committee in december.said their coaches slapped them in the face and used other forms of physical abuse and power harassment at a training camp before last year's london olympics. the all-japan judo federation senior director, koshi onozawa, admitted the allegations and apologized at a news conference in tokyo on wednesday. he added that the federation has reprimanded the head coach and another male coach. the federation says the head coach was involved in a total of five violent incidents from august 2010 to february 2012. it says he admitted to hitting athletes who failed to follow his instructions and jabbing them with a stick. he reportedly said he did so because of an overwhelming desire to see them win. meanwhile, the japan olympic committee, or joc, has said it required the federation to hold a fact-finding inquiry involving all wrestlers. >> translator: we haven't finished listening to all the wrestlers, so the problem is not solved. considering the wrestlers' feelings, we will do our best to find

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joe flacco is a big supporter of special olympics. he is not here. he will be playing in the super bowl. all the ravens have been big supporters of special olympics. jimmy, we love you. so grateful that you are here. all the super plungers, they are just getting started. oh, yeah. we will be here all night and tomorrow morning. i know there is some snow out here. everything is go to mark. , down. we will see you tomorrow. reporting live, rob roblin, wbal tv-11 news. >> take care of yourself, robbie, and make sure that they are taking care of jimmy, too. if you want to text a message to someone taking the plunge -- text to 80509. we will show as many as we can on the saturday morning news. it is inspiring, isn't it? >> it is. to see these young men -- they are like rock stars. >> it is so-called. it is 22 degrees is right now. -- it is so cold. they certainly need jimmy there to keep them inspired, because it is a long, cold nights ahead. the water temperatures in the mid-38's. -- mid-30's. the problem is, behind this snow maker tonight, gusty northwe

and this is a message from titanic to olympic. "11 p.m. york time titanic sending out signals of distress. answered his calls." so, they're making the point of record. "titanic replies and give me his position. "41-46 north, 50-14 west and says, 'we have struck an iceberg.' our distance from titanic, 505 miles." amazing. and that's been kept. it's been kept together with other marconigrams in the museum collections. well, you've just mentioned the museum and i think that is the joyous thing-- that all these things have been preserved and are on exhibition at the ulster folk and transport museum so, uh, they are for everybody to see. but, i always think about prices, and these will never come up for sale. they're almost impossible to value. i mean, both these plans-- they are literally one-offs. you'll never see another. no. um, and irreplaceable. i mean, i would've thought if you ever saw them at auction you'd be talking about £30,000 or £40,000 each, without a doubt. true titanic memorabilia fetches mega amounts of money. uh, the list of

. >> i was watching the olympics this year. they said more women brought home medals than men.do you think the nation is responding to the success of women in sports? >> no doubt. not only were there more women in the u.s. olympic team, have you to understand, because of title ix all those team sports, soccer, basketball, of course, which historically has done well, there's so many more female athletes that are able to participate in sports on a higher level, as a result of that, you saw the results from the olympics. >> you're getting the love, though. we keep talking about the men, why do you think that is? >> i think where we are in society, you know, from where we came from, we have come a long way. but like you said, we still have many steps that need to be taken. we have a long class ahead of us. but you look at things like, hey, you guys play the same sport, why don't you get paid equally. that's a big question that everyone always asks. >> when you look at the money aspect of it, i think we don't want to focus on that at this point. everyone is not going to make a livin

now, just hours before his interview with oprah, he is losing hi olympic medal. can his brand be repaired? >> more now on the apparent hooks involving a top college football player. his online girlfriend who he now says turned out to be fake and the many questions how everybody seemed to be duped. we have the president of the communications firm emregard partners, co-author of a book about how p.r. trumps advertising in the new media world. >>> s i mentioned, i went back and looked at four different interviews that te'o game. he leave as clear impression they had a face-to-face permanent -- personal relationship. now he is saying, i never really met her. doesn't add up. >> lance armstrong couldn't even make this one up. so bizarre. the lessons, don't believe what you see on the internet. don't believe the sports information, public relations machine at colleges. journalists are gullible. no offense. the big question here is the one that you're suggesting. was manti involved in this thing? what did he know? deadspin which broke the story claims that when ronaiah f

torch here in san francisco for the 2008 beijing olympic, it's an amazing award and thank you for being such a great teacher and leader and coach to young people in the tenderloin. [applause]. >> thank you very much for this award, my wife and i appreciate it very much. what's really important right now is for us to keep the rec centers open because the rec centers is like a second home for the kids in the community. if they don't have a second home, they'll find a home somewhere else and it won't be rec centers. thank you very much. >> thank you, and congratulations. [applause]. >> and, coach, we agree with that, and i want to conclude the report and the year as we always do with a holiday edition of this month in parks. (music playing). (video playing). (music playing). (video playing). >> happy holidays, happy new year, that concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you very much. >> do we have any public under the general manager's report, not under -- come on up. >> bruce stone, president of the san francisco harbor association, we were hoping as part of the general manager'

an international olympic committee -- an international olympic committee member suggests that if armstrong implicates top cycling officials in widespread doping activities, the ioc could consider dropping the sport from the olympics. cnn's george howell is in armstrong's hometown of austin, texas. good morning, >> reporter: carol, good morning, my hometown as well and i actually worked here in austin some 12 years ago. i covered a big citywide celebration with lance armstrong. it was 2001, just after he won the tour de france three times, brought so many people together, some 15,000 people together if i remember correctly. it was a great celebration. here you had an athlete who, you know, not only inspired the world but he was also a cancer survivor and people took note of that. but now when you think about lance, you can't help but be disappointed and when you talk to people here in austin, you can tell that they are looking at him differently. >> well, he's an icon here, you know, people looked up to him, they admired him, but now they're going to kind of look at him maybe in a little ne

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he is the head coach of the country's olympic medal winner female judo team. he's admitted to physically abusing top wrestlers in practice and expressed his intention to resign. 15 female wrestlers sent a written complaint to the japanese olympic committee saying soloda and another coach slapped them in the face and used other forms of physical abuse and power harassment. >> translator: i think it is difficult for me to continue teaching judo. i'm going to submit a document to the all-japan judo federation asking whether or not i should resign. >> he went on to say he never thought what he did would constitute violence. he revealed he just wanted the wrestlers to go the extra mile. officials with the all-japan judo federation say he was involved in a total of five violent incidents from august 2010 to february 2012. they say he admitted to hitting athletes who failed to follow his instructions and jamming them with a stick. they reprimanded soloda and the other coach. the joc set up an emergency meeting. they will probe the allegations of violence by the coach

you can see all these people are doing this, and they are doing it for special olympics. it was the young folks time to go into the water earlier today. it is the school challenge. and jennifer franciotti -- tim tooten was there. >> what you are seeing is the moment of peace before the plunge. but how do you get ready mentally for that big moment? for four straight years, the team from maryland i schools made their way to the banks of the chilly chesapeake. they were anxious and eager to take the plunge. and most showed up with a game plan. >> got to go. not really prepared. just sort of going in and getting what. >> i-team ready to go. >> just go right in and do not think about how cold it is. >> the final instructions, the final waiting, and the final chants. >> let's go! >> than the moment of truth. -- then the moment of truth. [cheering] >> what do you think? >> it is cold. i cannot feel my legs at all. >> it is called. >> whoo! >> my god! >> i cannot feel my legs. >> it was for a great cause. >> yes, it was for a great cause. >> in many ways this was a dress rehearsa