Last night an interview with Janet Evans aired on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. She is, as always, composed and engaging. Enjoy.
The link is:
www.pbs.org/.../
In this morning's 400 free prelims, Janet Evans went 4:17.95 and Dawn Heckman went 4:17.88. Watch this page to see where they end up seeded for the finals: www.socalswim.org/.../120419P009.htm
She's forty!! Oh! My, I remember cheering her on when I was forty something in 1988. I even wore out my Bud Greenspan's Cappy Productions VHS tape watching her win gold over and over. Now, does anyone know how to or where to purchase a dvd version of Bud Greenspan's video of the 1988 Olympics? Every kid who swims, should watch it.
In this morning's 400 free prelims, Janet Evans went 4:17.95 and Dawn Heckman went 4:17.88. Watch this page to see where they end up seeded for the finals: www.socalswim.org/.../120419P009.htm
She missed getting back for the A final by 0.02s.
8 Megan Rankin 17 Unat-GWSC 4:17.93
30.56 1:03.09 (32.53)
1:35.85 (32.76) 2:08.49 (32.64)
2:41.36 (32.87) 3:13.88 (32.52)
3:46.63 (32.75) 4:17.93 (31.30)
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9 Janet Evans 40 Golden West 4:17.95
30.52 1:02.93 (32.41)
1:35.54 (32.61) 2:08.21 (32.67)
2:40.95 (32.74) 3:13.59 (32.64)
3:46.35 (32.76) 4:17.95 (31.60)
Janet lowered her OT cut by 2 seconds tonight in the 800 free. Just that much closer now.
I was timing for the finals and it was very cool to watch her swim. There were a few other nice swims last night that are mentioned in the article below.
www.ocregister.com/.../evans-350187-time-pool.html
She is my all time favourite swimmer. I still think the greatest race I have ever seen was the 800m at the 1994 World Championships. The race between Evans and Hayley Lewis was amazing.
