Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain
Former Member
The finals of the first day, show:
.) in the men 400 meter free final, Thorpe (Aus.) went 3:42.58 for #1, Hackett (Aus.) went 3:45.17 for #2, and Coman (Rom.) went 3:46.8x for #3;
Coman -who is my fellow countryman, and I was telling you about him for years-, defeated Rossolini (Ita.) of the 2000 Olympics fame, Keller (U.S.) and Carvin (U.S.);
.) in the women 400 meter free final, Simona Paduraru (Rom.) finished #7, with a fast time;
.) in the 4x100 men free relay, Russia won;
the fastest split was by Frenchman Frederic Bousquet at 47.03 -which is the second fastest split in history-, and fast splits (in the 47s) were recorded by Alex. Popov (Rus.) and Jason Lezak (U.S.);
.) in the 4x100 women free relay, U.S. won, anchored by an ace 53.xx from Jenny Thompson (U.S.).
He! he! he! :D ho! ho! ho!
I post this, ahead of www.swiminfo.com and www.swimnews.com who are sandbagging...
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Former Member
I missed today's action. What a time to be travelling on business. Fortunately a friend left messages on my cell phone with race updates. Why don't they offer wireless web real-time updates for WC? We offer that in New England. I, for one, would check all of the time.
This rationale behind the prelim, semi, final format escapes me. Was it attempt to prevent some Australian or US swimmer from repeating a Spitz-like performance? (Like the two swimmer limit in swimming versus previous three swimmers per country per event?) Anyway it does favor the swimmer that can recover well after events. That usually works in favor of the younger and leaner swimmer. Jenny is leaner--now that she doesn't lift as much-but she's not younger.
I've already been admitted to the Phelps admiration society in earlier posts. He's the best male swimmer in the world--no doubt. There are so many other impressive performances. But in addition to Phelps and Jensen (according to Splash he BELIEVES he will beat Hackett in the Olympics) I'm might impressed with Amanda Beard. I saw her compete in 96 Olympic trials and there was a time when she was overshadowed by other swimmers (Megan Quann, Kristy Kowal) but she stuck with swimming and now was equaled an incredible world record (by a Chinese who was a flash in the pan, Ian). Amanda must really love swimming and competing and I think that's great.
I missed today's action. What a time to be travelling on business. Fortunately a friend left messages on my cell phone with race updates. Why don't they offer wireless web real-time updates for WC? We offer that in New England. I, for one, would check all of the time.
This rationale behind the prelim, semi, final format escapes me. Was it attempt to prevent some Australian or US swimmer from repeating a Spitz-like performance? (Like the two swimmer limit in swimming versus previous three swimmers per country per event?) Anyway it does favor the swimmer that can recover well after events. That usually works in favor of the younger and leaner swimmer. Jenny is leaner--now that she doesn't lift as much-but she's not younger.
I've already been admitted to the Phelps admiration society in earlier posts. He's the best male swimmer in the world--no doubt. There are so many other impressive performances. But in addition to Phelps and Jensen (according to Splash he BELIEVES he will beat Hackett in the Olympics) I'm might impressed with Amanda Beard. I saw her compete in 96 Olympic trials and there was a time when she was overshadowed by other swimmers (Megan Quann, Kristy Kowal) but she stuck with swimming and now was equaled an incredible world record (by a Chinese who was a flash in the pan, Ian). Amanda must really love swimming and competing and I think that's great.
