{"id":115372,"date":"2014-11-25T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=115372"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:49:08","slug":"touch-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/touch-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere of Touch The Wall Brings Swimming Stars To Red Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY – Touch The Wall, a movie that follows Missy Franklin at a young age leading up to\u00a02012 London Olympics, premiered in New York this past Sunday.<\/p>\n

Touch the Wall is the story of two amazing women and their their journey to swimming’s highest stage – the 2012 London Olympics. The young phenom (Missy Franklin) is just beginning her career and is saddled with mile-high expectations; the veteran (Kara Lynn Joyce) is trying to rediscover the juice that took her the previous two Olympics. \u00a0Touch the Wall is a story of winning and losing, of commitment, and triumph through adversity. It\u2019s also a story of family, of loving what you do, and having fun with the people around you. In a world starved for heroes, Missy and Kara stand tall in Touch the Wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

The live screening took place at Landmark Sunshine Cinema in conjunction with what turned out to be a loaded 2014 Golden Goggles<\/a> weekend, and the stars certainly showed up in droves to support the movie.<\/p>\n

Franklin and mentor Kara Lynn Joyce, both were dressed to the nines on the red carpet. \u00a0Directors Grant Barbeito and Christo Brock were also in attendance for the huge reveal.<\/p>\n

Swimmers Rachel Bootsma, Caitlin Leverenz, Rebecca Soni, Jessica Hardy, Davis Tarwater, Peter Vanderkaay, Tom Luchsinger and Cierra Runge also were in attendance, along with SwimMAC head coach David Marsh and Q&A emcee Rowdy Gaines.<\/p>\n

Swimming World<\/em> was there to capture everyone in their best dressed attire.<\/p>\n

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