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.
The broadcast pretty fairly represented the event (except for the fiction of Day 1 and Day 2). I'd estimate that more than half the crowd was composed of kids 15 or under. A lot of them got autographs from the swimmers and I saw Neil Walker (I'm sure he wasn't the only one) take time out between events to sign swimming caps.
Again, Phelps fly is quite unique. I'm sure you noticed his unusual head position (always forward never down or up) AND the fact that he breathes every stroke!
I heard that a recent article in Swimming Technique discusses the approach that Phelps and Bowman (his coach) take towards fly training. Can anyone out there summarizes it for the rest of us?
The broadcast pretty fairly represented the event (except for the fiction of Day 1 and Day 2). I'd estimate that more than half the crowd was composed of kids 15 or under. A lot of them got autographs from the swimmers and I saw Neil Walker (I'm sure he wasn't the only one) take time out between events to sign swimming caps.
Again, Phelps fly is quite unique. I'm sure you noticed his unusual head position (always forward never down or up) AND the fact that he breathes every stroke!
I heard that a recent article in Swimming Technique discusses the approach that Phelps and Bowman (his coach) take towards fly training. Can anyone out there summarizes it for the rest of us?
