I am still to go to my first meet, so I was very curious about one thing: how do swimmers(pretty much everything except freestyle) watch their competitors in other lanes, especially when moving your head can do some time damage when it really matters in very tight and important competitions.Do swimmers actually sometimes not see what is going on next to them and just try to swim their best?I was watching the 200m. breaststroke final from Athens and if you pay attention to the last meters of the race it looks like Brendan Hansen was not aware of the hungarian kid(Daniel Gyurta)coming right behind him to steal his silver which he did in a very amazing waY.Hansen could have taken two short explosive strokes at the very end instead of gliding slowly with one long stroke to finish the race where he lost to the hungarian by .08 sec.
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Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
Hansen could have taken two short explosive strokes at the very end instead of gliding slowly with one long stroke to finish the race where he lost to the hungarian by .08 sec.
If two short strokes would have got him to the wall faster he should have done them regardless of what anyone else in the pool was doing, no? According to the commentators (on CBC anyway) Hansen's real problem was that he let Kitajima throw him off his race. In any case, if he had ignored everyone else and swam his trials race he would have won gold.
Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming
Hansen could have taken two short explosive strokes at the very end instead of gliding slowly with one long stroke to finish the race where he lost to the hungarian by .08 sec.
If two short strokes would have got him to the wall faster he should have done them regardless of what anyone else in the pool was doing, no? According to the commentators (on CBC anyway) Hansen's real problem was that he let Kitajima throw him off his race. In any case, if he had ignored everyone else and swam his trials race he would have won gold.
