Lochte 8 medals in London according to Menshealth.com

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Former Member — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:40:14 GMT

Lochte tweeted a couple workouts a few days ago, "30x100's beat possible average (FLY). On 2 min. LC... And now tomorrow morning after weights 20x400's best average on 5 min. LC . Man up!!"

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Former Member — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:09:32 GMT

This one would be a little tricky since I'm sure he's asked about Phelps in every interview he gives. He probably hates the question. I'm guessing that he's a little grateful for Phelps, because Lochte lives for the challenge, and if Phelps hadn't raised the bar like he did I'm not sure that Lochte would be the swimmer that he is...

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That Guy — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:57:22 GMT

I'm guessing that he's a little grateful for Phelps, because Lochte lives for the challenge, and if Phelps hadn't raised the bar like he did I'm not sure that Lochte would be the swimmer that he is... I remember that Hoogie made a similar comment when Thorpe retired. He pushed himself to go faster than he ever thought he would go, just because Thorpe was out there.

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jim thornton — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:17:17 GMT

Jim, A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend the Golden Goggles awards when they were here in Los Angeles. I got to sit at a table with Janet Evans and Brian Goodell...a thrill for me. After the ceremonies I got to chat with many swimmers including Rowdy, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak. I also spoke to Michael. I said to him, "You know, when you are done there is always Masters swimming." He looked at me and said, "When I'm done, I'm done!":bolt: I am sure that's what Thorpe thought too, but then the fathood began to accumulate... I do wonder how easy it is going to be for these guys to adjust their caloric intake post mega-training. I mean you eat 7000-12,000 calories a day for 15 years, I think it's gotta be a major adjustment to go down to 2000-3000!

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Glenn — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:29:06 GMT

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jim thornton — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:13:35 GMT

Thanks to you all for some great questions! I copied and pasted them all into my file on Mr. Lochte! As of now, I am only scheduled for 15-20 minutes with him for interview time (though I do get to swim a couple laps with him after his practice--I am hoping for some tips on SDKs.) I am a little confused about his times from GP. When did he do that fantastic 100 fly? Then he got crushed by MP in the 200 IM. It almost seems like he's got some fast swims in him now, despite lack of tapering, but he also is worn out--no doubt in part from pushing tractor tires and dragging anchor chains down the alley behind his house! If by some miracle I can extend the time I interview him past the 20 min allotment, I would also love to ask him about whether he likes swimming enough that he ever thinks about doing masters after his retirement from the professional ranks. Can you imagine what he and Phelps could do in the 80-84 age group if they kept at his for the next 55 years! Please keep letting me know anything else you'd like to ask him. Maybe with my twin brother's help, I can post the audio interview on a podcast for you all to listen to at some point. (It shouldn't be hard to tell the interviewer and interviewee apart: I will be the stumbling, stuttering, Colombo-like one; he will presumably be the Florida surfer nice guy Adonis one.)

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Former Member — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:42:07 GMT

Fascinating. Envious of the opportunity to have a conversation with Ryan. After watching the Indy GP online, among the things I'd ask him is how he maintains his confidence after training heavily through (and getting beat during) meets in-season. At this Grand Prix, he was beat by guys who will not beat him come trials--how does he know he will be able to step it up? Most athletes--even elite ones--need a reminder that they can hit the wall first. Lochte seems totally chill with winning a console or getting 5th from lane 7 three months out and then making the team when it counts. Recent training philosophy seems to say that you need to practice swimming fast in order to do just that. How does Ryan swim a 1:59 in the 200 IM for a year and know that he can drop a 1:54.00 when he needs to? it's a very different race (at that level) , with major differences in number of strokes per length, rhythm, etc. I also wonder what his plans are after London. Seems clear that MP is retiring, but no one seems to be commenting on what RL is doing. I don't see any reason for him to retire. Would love to have some continuity as we hope for the next generation to step it up.

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Glenn — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:21:31 GMT

Ask him about his 200 IM race (or any race) e.g. What aspects of technique or race strategy do you think about just prior to a race? Maybe you can word the question better, but I am looking for what aspects of his stroke or turn or whatever does he think about prior to. In a 200 free I think of easy speed the first fifty etc., or I think of hitting the turns hard and doing three SDK's or switching to 4th stroke breathing on the last 25.

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Former Member — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:03:43 GMT

Tyler McGill went 51.95 in France last week. I think the #2 spot on the Olympic roster is still his to lose. www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../30096.asp interesting- thanks for the link.

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Former Member — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:59:13 GMT

I have a feeling Lochte will enter a ton of events at Trials and see how well he can handle it. If we see him start scratching events then we'll know he's tiring. I think you are right. I'm changing my mind. Up to a couple days ago, I thought his event schedule at Shanghai would be a really good realistic indicator for London. But now his 100 fly is a 52 low. He's was just .09 behind Phelps at this Grand Prix meet!

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knelson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:50:32 GMT

I would ask him about swimming in Phelps' shadow. This one would be a little tricky since I'm sure he's asked about Phelps in every interview he gives. He probably hates the question.

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no200fly — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:28:19 GMT

If you could ask Ryan some questions in person, what would you ask him? I would ask him about swimming in Phelps' shadow. I don't know what kind of an answer he would give, but it looks from the outside like that is a big part of his motivation.

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no200fly — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:21:31 GMT

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../London-2012-Olympics-Can-the-laidback-Ryan-Lochte-win-a-record-nine-golds.html I love this quote from his strength coach- "He works hard and he’s not afraid to throw up," DeLancey says proudly.

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Elaine Krugman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:13:50 GMT

Jim, I am as stumped as you are! The interview should be quite interesting and the resulting article a good read. Will you please post it here when it's published? Thanks!

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knelson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:12:13 GMT

If you could ask Ryan some questions in person, what would you ask him? I know he trains really hard and puts in serious mileage in the pool, but I'd be curious if he does anything really technique oriented, drills, etc? And we know he's a great underwater kicker, so it would be interesting to hear what he does to work on that aspect of his swimming. Does he use a monofin at all?

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jim thornton — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:46:50 GMT

It looks like I am going to go down to Florida to interview Mr. Lochte for a Men's Health article in early April. Not absolutely sure what the gist of this is supposed to be about yet, but I suspect the theme will be whether he can set a new standard for total number of medals won, or come close, and if so how. If you could ask Ryan some questions in person, what would you ask him? Plus if anybody has ideas about why he is so extraordinarily good, I'd really be grateful to hear them. I read that both his parents were swimming coaches, and he got his perfect strokes from his mom and his training and stamina from his father. (As far as perfect form goes, I am sure this has changed quite a bit from his youth--was it his mother who redefined this, or some other coach?) When you think of human accomplishment on the bell shaped curve, he is so far out there on the right hand margins--well, any world record holder is, I suppose, but he and Phelps are just incredible specimens, the Secretariats of swimming. They are beyond even the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent. How do people get to this rarefied position?

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That Guy — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:22:44 GMT

I think you are right. I'm changing my mind. Up to a couple days ago, I thought his event schedule at Shanghai would be a really good realistic indicator for London. But now his 100 fly is a 52 low. He's was just .09 behind Phelps at this Grand Prix meet! Tyler McGill went 51.95 in France last week. I think the #2 spot on the Olympic roster is still his to lose. www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../30096.asp

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:19:36 GMT

i think he will also swim 200 fly I'm really enjoying reading people's comments on Lochte 2012. Random late night thoughts while I'm tired... In my opinion, he wants to beat The King most of all. He'll swim 200 fr 200/400 im 200 bk 4 x 200 fr 4 x 100 fr (makes top 6) Sidenotes- Will Phelps swim the 400 im? Will Phelps swim the 100 bk? Huge wild card here. 200 fr is insanely competitive. 5-6 guys are literally within tenths of a second of one another.

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knelson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:45:44 GMT

I have a feeling Lochte will enter a ton of events at Trials and see how well he can handle it. If we see him start scratching events then we'll know he's tiring.

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Former Member — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:22 GMT

I'm really enjoying reading people's comments on Lochte 2012. Random late night thoughts while I'm tired... In my opinion, he wants to beat The King most of all. He'll swim 200 fr 200/400 im 200 bk 4 x 200 fr 4 x 100 fr (makes top 6) Sidenotes- Will Phelps swim the 400 im? Will Phelps swim the 100 bk? Huge wild card here. 200 fr is insanely competitive. 5-6 guys are literally within tenths of a second of one another.

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Former Member — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:25:03 GMT

he first must get through the USA 2012 Olympic Trials His 2012 OT schedule should the same as 2008. I'm very sure he'll swim the 100 free prelims and semi's, doubt he'll swim the 1 fr finals, because it splits his 2 bk & 2 IM semis. I'm sure he could cruise his 2 bk semi and still make finals, he could punch a fast 1 free in finals, but he's not likely to make top 2 and might not want to endanger his 2 IM. It's a tough schedule. Plus consider warm ups, warm downs, interviews and showing up to the ready room for each race, he's going to be super busy. He'll be very fast and well prepared. The difference is 100 back, with Piersol out, he's got a better chance to make top 2 but USA's got a lot of really great 100 backstrokers & so far Lochte seems better at 200's. USA's Top 100 bk times for 2010 & 11 53.01 Thoman, 53.04 Plummer 53.05 Grevers, 53.69 Lochte 53.71 Phelps, 54.20 Owens 54.22 Russel 54.31 Godso 54.45 Bal 54.56 Hesen from FINAs world Rankings Probably going to take 52.8 to make the team 100 bk & 100 free are the 2 big questions for Lochte. Lochte's 2012 OT Schedule Monday, June 25 Men's 400m IM Women's 100m Fly Men's 400m Free Women's 400m IM Men's 100m *** Men's 400m IM - Final Women's 100m Fly - Semifinal Men's 400m Free - Final Women's 400m IM - Final Men's 100m *** - Semifinal Tuesday, June 26 Women's 100m Back Men's 200m Free Women's 100m *** Men's 100m Back Women's 400m Free Women's 100m Fly - Final Men's 200m Free - Semifinal Women's 100m *** - Semifinal Men's 100m *** - Final Women's 400m Free - Final Men's 100m Back - Semifinal Women's 100m Back - Semifinal Wednesday, June 27 Women's 200m Free Men's 200m Fly Women's 200m IM Women's 200m Free - Semifinal Men's 200m Free - Final Women's 100m Back - Final Men's 100m Back - Final (he'll probably race this but is likely to be tired from his 2 fr) Women's 100m *** - Final Men's 200m Fly - Semifinal Women's 200m IM -- Semifinal Thursday, June 28 Men's 100m Free will probably swim to post a time Women's 200m Fly Men's 200m *** Men's 100m Free - Semifinal MIGHT SWIM Women's 200m Free - Final Men's 200m Fly - Final Women's 200m Fly - Semifinal Men's 200m *** - Semifinal Women's 200m IM - Final Friday, June 29 Women's 100m Free Men's 200m Back Women's 200m *** Men's 200m IM Men's 200m *** - Final Women's 100m Free - Semifinal Men's 200m Back - Semifinal Women's 200m Fly - Final Men's 100m Free - Final Unlikely to swim Women's 200m *** - Semifinal Men's 200m IM - Semifinal Saturday, June 30 Men's 50m Free Women's 800m Free Men's 100m Fly Women's 200m Back Men's 50m Free - Semifinal Women's 200m *** - Final Men's 200m Back - Final Women's 200m Back - Semifinal Men's 200m IM - Final DONE Women's 100m Free - Final Men's 100m Fly - Semifinal Sunday, July 1 Women's 50m Free Men's 1500m Free Women's 200m Back - Final Men's 100m Fly - Final Women's 800m Free - Final Men's 50m Free - Final Women's 50m Free - Semifinal Monday, July 2 No Preliminaries Women's 50m Free - Final Men's 1500m Free - Final USA Men's 100 Free Top times 2010 & 11 48.05 Adrian, Nathan USA OQT 2011 FINA World Champs Shanghai CHN 24/07/2011 48.08 Phelps, Michael USA OQT 2011 FINA World Champs Shanghai CHN 24/07/2011 48.47 Lezak, Jason USA OQT 2010 Pan Pacific Champs Irvine USA 18/08/2010 48.49 Weber-Gale, Garrett USA OQT 2011 FINA World Champs Shanghai CHN 24/07/2011 48.94 Berens, Ricky USA OST 2011 Winter National Champs Atlanta USA 01/12/2011 48.99 Feigen, Jimmy USA 2011 Conoco Phillips National 02/08/2011 49.01 Walters, Dave USA OST 2010 National Champs Irvine, CA USA 03/08/2010 49.06 Tarwater, Davis USA 2011 Conoco Phillips National 02/08/2011 49.22 Grevers, Matt USA 2011 Conoco Phillips National 02/08/2011 49.39 Savulich, Bobby USA 2011 Conoco Phillips National 02/08/2011 49.40 Brunelli, Nick USA 2011 Conoco Phillips National 02/08/2011 49.51 Jones, Cullen USA OST 2010 National Champs Irvine, CA USA 03/08/2010 49.53 Copeland, William USA OST 2011 Pan American Games Guadalajara MEX 16/10/2011 Knowing what we all know of Lochte, I think he will make the team for 4x100 free, but as Ande points out making the 4x100 medley will be tough. He then has to think about his schedule and find more individual events. I just can't see it. I can't see him taking it all on, and I can't see the US winning the 4x100 free. The one thing that would change my mind on it is having 2 of the biggest racers there are on the team in Phelps and Lochte - even if they aren't specialists. Here's another good analysis - www.pullbuoy.co.uk/.../how-lochte-could-win-9-golds-but-can-he-do-it

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rxleakem — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:59:46 GMT

Gatorade Inside The Edge: Ryan Lochte - YouTube

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orca1946 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:46:19 GMT

How Lochte plans his order of events will play into the finish times.

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ande — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:17:12 GMT

need to also consider the olympic schedule 2012 Olympics: Swimming - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums media.ticketmaster.com/.../oly-swimming.pdf

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Former Member — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:54:52 GMT

I am with Ande, I just don't see it happending for him in the 100 back or 100 free. The 200 IM / 200 back double is crazy...