Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain
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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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The last post, by Craig, has the trappings that I repeat to avoid for the "...top male swimmers of the 20th. century...".
The latest times I repeated it in this thread, are nine and six posts ago.
So, not long ago...
This thread (and another thread 'comparing' Thorpe (Aus.) with Phelps (U.S.) after a challenge by Don Talbot (Aus.) to Phelps), is full (as in at least five posts by me alone in this thread) of:
stay away from lists of criteria of "...top male swimmers...".
Other than times comparing them in the same event, anything else is subjective.
In this case, the list of criteria is subjective to Whitten, Colwin, etc..
(When I read the ranking in 'Breakthrough Swimming', I started smirking).
Each criteria, like 'longevity in the Olympics' -which I bring up here-, can be discussed based on its data.
The set of different criteria, is a set of apples and oranges, and judging how many points do apples rate and how many points do oranges rate, that's nil.
The last post, by Craig, has the trappings that I repeat to avoid for the "...top male swimmers of the 20th. century...".
The latest times I repeated it in this thread, are nine and six posts ago.
So, not long ago...
This thread (and another thread 'comparing' Thorpe (Aus.) with Phelps (U.S.) after a challenge by Don Talbot (Aus.) to Phelps), is full (as in at least five posts by me alone in this thread) of:
stay away from lists of criteria of "...top male swimmers...".
Other than times comparing them in the same event, anything else is subjective.
In this case, the list of criteria is subjective to Whitten, Colwin, etc..
(When I read the ranking in 'Breakthrough Swimming', I started smirking).
Each criteria, like 'longevity in the Olympics' -which I bring up here-, can be discussed based on its data.
The set of different criteria, is a set of apples and oranges, and judging how many points do apples rate and how many points do oranges rate, that's nil.
