Just a little more than 30 days before the "Duel in the Pool". This is one of the most creative and exciting meet formats that USA Swimming has come up with yet. It's the US vs Australia. It's a duel meet format. The best men and women swimmers from each team compete in a limited number of events, head-to-head for bragging rights of the best swimming team in the world.
For more information check out: www.usaswimming.org/.../Duel.htm
If the teams are tied then the outcome is decided by a mixed 200 medley relay.
Predictions anyone?
Australia has Thorpe but we have Phelps and Coughlin. Australia has edge in men's freestyle events but we more depth in the strokes. I'm rooting for a close meet because it would be very exciting to see a tie-breaker medley relay BUT US should win it without the relay (why don't they swim it anyway?) .
Whole meet should take three hours or less, is scheduled for Sunday April 6th in Indy and will be broadcast the following week on network TV.
Yeah, or you could have been on a team with elite swimmers, I was once on a team with Gary Hall Sr and Shirley Babashoff and Bruce and Steve Furness. So, a lot of us medocre swimmers share the pool with elite swimmers. I found out later on I swam on a novice team with John Mykkenian- silver medalist in 1984. He was only 5 or 6 years old while I was 13 or 14 years old at the time that we were on the same team. Also, I competed against Leia F in novice meets back in 1969 and 1970 and she who was about 1 and half younger than me at the time , went to the fame Lakewood California AAU team of the 1970' ands made the olympic team in 100 meter butterfly in 1976.. A lot of us medocre swimmers have been on teams with people that made the olympics or nationals, so it not that hard for people to have met olympic swimmers in their lifetime.
Yeah, or you could have been on a team with elite swimmers, I was once on a team with Gary Hall Sr and Shirley Babashoff and Bruce and Steve Furness. So, a lot of us medocre swimmers share the pool with elite swimmers. I found out later on I swam on a novice team with John Mykkenian- silver medalist in 1984. He was only 5 or 6 years old while I was 13 or 14 years old at the time that we were on the same team. Also, I competed against Leia F in novice meets back in 1969 and 1970 and she who was about 1 and half younger than me at the time , went to the fame Lakewood California AAU team of the 1970' ands made the olympic team in 100 meter butterfly in 1976.. A lot of us medocre swimmers have been on teams with people that made the olympics or nationals, so it not that hard for people to have met olympic swimmers in their lifetime.
