New Suits Mean No More Records in Swimming
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer
Yesterday, 3:01 AM
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As world championships approach, swimming's world record drought reaches 18 months
Swimming's world-record drought has reached 18 months, and as next month's world championships in Shanghai draw nearer the sport's close-knit community is starting to wonder when it will be broken.
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Besides the suits, another noticeable change on the pool deck these days is swimmer's physiques, especially among the men, since overall mass seemed to improve performance in the more floatable rubberized suits.
"They've all suddenly gotten smaller and slimmed down," observed Coventry, who took a year off after the 2009 worlds.
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Sun Yang missed Grant Hackett's 1500m record by 8 seconds in China's national swim earlier this year (recall that he was within a second of the record in 2010 Asian Games last November). According to this Australian report, Denis Cotterell, Sun's new coach and Hackett's former coach, said that they (referring to both Sun and Cotterell) had decided to "save it for Shanghai":
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg7mf-1226036246012
Sun Yang missed Grant Hackett's 1500m record by 8 seconds in China's national swim earlier this year (recall that he was within a second of the record in 2010 Asian Games last November). According to this Australian report, Denis Cotterell, Sun's new coach and Hackett's former coach, said that they (referring to both Sun and Cotterell) had decided to "save it for Shanghai":
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg7mf-1226036246012
