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...
Parents
Former Member
Hey Ion, you spending a lot of time with Matt and Tom (Biondi and Dolan)? That or you are one hell of a mind reader. How else would you know that Biondi retired in 1994 to avoid Popov and Dolan is "ducking" Phelps and Vendt in the 400IM...oh, maybe because you haven't thought that MAYBE world class athletes decide that they simply want to retire and move onto other things in life (hint, hint).
BTW, still loving that you were so wrong on that whole Guinness thing with Biondi. Bond! That still gets me. By the way, Johnny Weisenheimer, Buster Shrimp, Mark Spitzelbaum, and Jim Nabors all say hi. At least, those were the names they gave me when they came over to dinner last night.
Hey Ion, you spending a lot of time with Matt and Tom (Biondi and Dolan)? That or you are one hell of a mind reader. How else would you know that Biondi retired in 1994 to avoid Popov and Dolan is "ducking" Phelps and Vendt in the 400IM...oh, maybe because you haven't thought that MAYBE world class athletes decide that they simply want to retire and move onto other things in life (hint, hint).
BTW, still loving that you were so wrong on that whole Guinness thing with Biondi. Bond! That still gets me. By the way, Johnny Weisenheimer, Buster Shrimp, Mark Spitzelbaum, and Jim Nabors all say hi. At least, those were the names they gave me when they came over to dinner last night.
