:cool: Hey i just wanted 2 know who your fav swimmer or swimmers r? Mine r Aaron Peirsol + Lenny Krayzelburg! tell me who yours r!
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Because you like Anthony Ervin (US) too, I have this little story:
in the year 2000, a few months before the Olympics there was a forum - www.nbcolympics.com -, with a swimming section in it;
before the US Olympic Trials, I predicted that Anthony Ervin will qualify in 50 meters free (and not in the 100 meters free);
he was little-known then at the NCAA level, as a yards tough sprinter;
other posters were stunned by my prediction;
when he qualified, with what is today the third fastest time in history for the 50 meters free, the other posters were thinking that I must be a wizard;
I also predicted that van den Hoogenband (Ned) was going to be during the Olympics in the same class as Thorpe (Aus) in the 200 meters free, at a time when van den Hoogenband was at best -once so far- close to a second behind Thorpe's average of five best times;
in the Olympics, van den Hoogenband raised himself in the same class as Thorpe like I predicted, and won gold over Thorpe by a small margin;
one of the posters in www.nbcolympics.com, was Dan Kowalski (Aus) who won silver (in 1500 meters free) and bronze (in the 200 meters free) in the 1996 Olympics, and gold (in the 4 x 200 meters free relay) in the 2000 Olympics.
This is a fun little story of lucky predictions...
Because you like Anthony Ervin (US) too, I have this little story:
in the year 2000, a few months before the Olympics there was a forum - www.nbcolympics.com -, with a swimming section in it;
before the US Olympic Trials, I predicted that Anthony Ervin will qualify in 50 meters free (and not in the 100 meters free);
he was little-known then at the NCAA level, as a yards tough sprinter;
other posters were stunned by my prediction;
when he qualified, with what is today the third fastest time in history for the 50 meters free, the other posters were thinking that I must be a wizard;
I also predicted that van den Hoogenband (Ned) was going to be during the Olympics in the same class as Thorpe (Aus) in the 200 meters free, at a time when van den Hoogenband was at best -once so far- close to a second behind Thorpe's average of five best times;
in the Olympics, van den Hoogenband raised himself in the same class as Thorpe like I predicted, and won gold over Thorpe by a small margin;
one of the posters in www.nbcolympics.com, was Dan Kowalski (Aus) who won silver (in 1500 meters free) and bronze (in the 200 meters free) in the 1996 Olympics, and gold (in the 4 x 200 meters free relay) in the 2000 Olympics.
This is a fun little story of lucky predictions...
