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.
It seem to me that all the guys in the 400 medley relay did their best times and that Moses broke a minute in the *** even going faster than the world record holder. I know rolling start but still a darn good time. Check it out. I was at a meet so didn't get to see it but got to see the NCAA mens championships. Did u say it will be on again this next weekend???
Duel in the Pool to be broadcast on NBC this weekend.
Here in the Boston area it can be seen on Channel 7 (or 10) starting at 3:00 pm on Saturday and 1:30 pm on Sunday.
You'll see some great swimming.
I accidently stumbled on the meet on T.V. "surfing" during my lunch break. The swimming was excellent and exciting. I also was impressed with everyones attitude. Thanking the other team for coming and doing well.
I hope anyone that watched "learned from the pro's" as far as stroke styles, turns, etc., goes.
The commercial about the "guy" getting up every mornig to chase Lenny's times really was done well, I could totally relate. Also it's cool to think that you can accually meet some of these people face to face at a meet or just going to the locker room is reason enough to carry a camera to meets.
Recently someone we know passed on and I got to thinking that I didn't get to say a few things, one of them was to thank them for being part of my everyday life (good and bad) and getting up everyday just to be counted as part of the "crazy people" that show up to do what they love. So thank you all for your help and support on this site and all you do day to day, you help make it fun.
Bill:) :cool:
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?
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.
Can anyone tell me which music was featured on "Dual in the Pool"?
I heard a song that kept getting played when NBC would come back from commercials.
Thanks!
