At the U.S. Trials there was one official in every lane looking at the turns, so now that we're in Athens, how does Kitajima get away with that dolphin kick on his turn? It seemed clear to me from the above water shot, then was confirmed with the underwater. Other breaststrokers care to weigh in?
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But hey, what's up at Swiminfo.com.
Everyone knows the results of tonights finals, but poor old swiminfo gave us just the 200 back results.
Come on, breaststrokers everywhere want to know if Amanda does her thing.
Interesting note on Amanda, she took less strokes in the 200 *** at Trials than Brendan Hansen!
I was trying to count her strokes in the prelims yesterday, but nearly broke my neck when the cameras switched positions. I hope they show it better tonight.
Her distance per stroke is HUGE, she can go as low as 19 stroke per 50, and gets going the last length at about 21 strokes!!! If I rememer correctly she used to be about 35 strokes per length in 1996. Rowdy is totally wrong, she nowhere near swims the same. It is entirely different, and now truly a true pull, kick (with head underwater) and glide.
Now I like Rowdy, he is the only one I know who can talk about swimming faster and longer than I can. But PLEASE, stop the stroke comments. He does not know breaststroke:D
He should be talking about what really makes Phelps and Thorpedo so great. They both start OK (Thorpedo a two foot at the front of the blocks start) and they both do several (4-5) dolphins while underwater. They both gain nearly a body length doing that!! That is huge. Nothing upsets me more than when freestylers push off the turns and immediatly start furiously kicking flutter kick. Notice those swimmers usually come up at the 5 meter mark. But Thorpe and Phelps come up 10 to 13 meters out.out This goes all the way back to the 1992 Olympics when Popov did 2-3 dolphins off the start and turns (while USA swimmers did not) and he won by the exact distance he gained in those dolphins.
But hey, what's up at Swiminfo.com.
Everyone knows the results of tonights finals, but poor old swiminfo gave us just the 200 back results.
Come on, breaststrokers everywhere want to know if Amanda does her thing.
Interesting note on Amanda, she took less strokes in the 200 *** at Trials than Brendan Hansen!
I was trying to count her strokes in the prelims yesterday, but nearly broke my neck when the cameras switched positions. I hope they show it better tonight.
Her distance per stroke is HUGE, she can go as low as 19 stroke per 50, and gets going the last length at about 21 strokes!!! If I rememer correctly she used to be about 35 strokes per length in 1996. Rowdy is totally wrong, she nowhere near swims the same. It is entirely different, and now truly a true pull, kick (with head underwater) and glide.
Now I like Rowdy, he is the only one I know who can talk about swimming faster and longer than I can. But PLEASE, stop the stroke comments. He does not know breaststroke:D
He should be talking about what really makes Phelps and Thorpedo so great. They both start OK (Thorpedo a two foot at the front of the blocks start) and they both do several (4-5) dolphins while underwater. They both gain nearly a body length doing that!! That is huge. Nothing upsets me more than when freestylers push off the turns and immediatly start furiously kicking flutter kick. Notice those swimmers usually come up at the 5 meter mark. But Thorpe and Phelps come up 10 to 13 meters out.out This goes all the way back to the 1992 Olympics when Popov did 2-3 dolphins off the start and turns (while USA swimmers did not) and he won by the exact distance he gained in those dolphins.
