500 Fly: worthy challenge or arrogant showboating?
Former Member
A kid swam the 500 all fly in a high school dual meet yesterday. His coach was furious and benched him for the rest of the meet. One of my lane mates this morning, who was the Starter at this meet said that was showboating and demeaning to the other competitors. I disagree. Was that any more demeaning than swimming free and lapping people? Plus, I saw the flyer ask everyone in the heat if it would bother them. Even on the blocks he said "Are you sure you guys are OK with this?"
FYI,at the Nats in 2007 the last event was the 4X50 free relay.We had 4 men total at the meet.We weren't going to be in the top 3,all of us were primarily breaststrokers,so we swam it BR.
FYI,at the Nats in 2007 the last event was the 4X50 free relay.We had 4 men total at the meet.We weren't going to be in the top 3,all of us were primarily breaststrokers,so we swam it BR.
