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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What on earth is a "pure time"!? Does this mean that every time Thorpe swims he must set a WR? He has 5 WR's, just won his 2nd WC in 2 days, defended the 400 for the 3rd time (only person ever) and he "wins now because of the margin he built in the past separating him from the others"- you don't think the other 7 people in the finals aren't gunning to knock him off? How about this - he wins because he is faster than everyone else.
Have you ever swam in a meet where performance is not based on numbers? I swam an AA:JJ.YY. I don't think that works to well. Since there are not handicaps in swimming your term "pure time" really has no place here.
I don't follow your ramblings.
This:
Originally posted by Ion Beza
In the 200 meter free, Thorpe won with 1:45.14, off his 1:44.xx from the last two years.
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and the rest of my post, refers to evaluating Thorpe's performances against himself, by looking at his times over the past few years and when he did peak:
(hence the expression 'pure times')
.) 1:45.14 in 2003,
.) 1:44.71 in 2002,
.) 1:44.06 in 2001.
Now, go rambling in the street, over there maybe in New York, about your "...AA..." and "...handicaps...", whatever these things mean to you.
After you are done with these ramblings, do consider -from me the foreigner- that "...I don't think that works to well..." spells in fact "...I don't think that works too well...".
Then read again my posts, understand them better, and you should be set for improvement.
Check out the amazing details about each swimmer's stroke rates and stroke lengths on the official site,www.bcn03.org. For all the swimmers in the finals they give a comprehensive break-down of how they each performed at each lap of the race.
According to an article on eurosport.com, deBruin has not been able/willing to commit to training this year, apparently a problem that is pretty much a constant with her, but worse now that she is home in the Netherlands with lots of distractions.
Originally posted by Gareth Eckley
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Thorpe is really the Best Swimmer, he is on another level.
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I think Thorpe peaked out in 400 meter free, with 3:40.08 from last year.
In 2001 it was 3:40.17, in 2000 it was 3:40.5x.
In 2003 it is 3:42.5x.
In next year's Olympics, he is going to win the 400 free in about 3:41.xx, then he is going to sharpen up more and more in the 200 free and under.
Last year he finished at #3 in the world in the 100 meter free with a 48.73, just off #2 Popov (48.70) -who is a dedicated sprinter- and #1 van den Hoogenband (47.86).
I think, after 2004, Thorpe will peak in the 100 free for three years, then at about the age of 25 (he is 21 now) he will start to burn out and fade.
Wow, Ion, quite the prediction on Thorpe. I feel that this is a "slow pool" and world records will be hard to come by. Just saw the 200 free, Hoogie seemed to fade away. I think he had a bad start and that dented his confidence.
Roland S, the South Africian swimmer worksout for Ford Aquatics in Tucson Arizona at the University of Arizona. So, does Amanda Beard. She decided to swim for Ford since she was attending college at the University of Arizona. The Japanese have had a history of good breaststokers and in *** you don't have to be over 6 foot to be a top breaststroker. Go Jenny Thompson.
Ion, I never said that I did not like you. I don't know you. I just don't like your sarcasm. If you read my earlier post you would see that I knew about Gareth's previous discussion about Kitajima's turn. I was agreeing with him and noticed that no one else had agreed / disagreed with his post. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it.
