Not sure if anyone is watching, but Florida's Ryan Lochte (Olympic Gold/Silver medalist) has been incredible:
First night;
- 50 back medley relay leadoff = 20.92
- lead off the 800 free relay = 1:33.07
Last night;
- 200 IM = 1:41.76
- 100 back lead off 400 medley relay = 45.19
This morning "floats" a prelim swim in the 400 IM = 3:46.95, finals start in just a little bit so we'll see if he gets Dolans AR of 3:38.18?
Looking forward to seeing him and Phelps go at it next time!
Meg
Did you know that Daniel Cruz and Ryan Lochte were teamates before college. They both swim for th Datona Beach Club and trained together for the 2004 Olympic Trials. Ryan's father, Steve is the coach. The article in the current issue of Swim Technique "Saving Swimmer Ryan" (my error on the previous post) talks about the training they do in Datona Beach. Daniel is from that area and started swimming late under the coaching of Steve Lochete.
Last year swimmng was televised on the main networks more than any other time in history. If you have the basic cable you get the Division I Championships for 3 hours (both Women and Men), the 2004 Olympic Trials for 5 hours, the 2004 Olympics in Athens for XX hours, and the 2004 World Championships from Indy for 11 hours. I don't ever remember swimming being on TV this much. And this does not include College TV or area cable stations that cover Conference and local college swimming.
This year I know that ESPN was going to cover the World Championships in Montreal similar to what they covered in Spain in 2003, if there is a meet which looks like there will be. I don't know about the World Championship trials in Indy next month. Probably not because they would already be up on the USA Swimming website. They are going to televise "Dual In The Pool" part 2 in August of this year from Australia. USA Nationals have not been televised since 2002 in Fort Lauderdale but there were no World Championships or Pan Pac's that year. So I think swimming has come a long away with better coverage than I can remember.
Meg
Did you know that Daniel Cruz and Ryan Lochte were teamates before college. They both swim for th Datona Beach Club and trained together for the 2004 Olympic Trials. Ryan's father, Steve is the coach. The article in the current issue of Swim Technique "Saving Swimmer Ryan" (my error on the previous post) talks about the training they do in Datona Beach. Daniel is from that area and started swimming late under the coaching of Steve Lochete.
Last year swimmng was televised on the main networks more than any other time in history. If you have the basic cable you get the Division I Championships for 3 hours (both Women and Men), the 2004 Olympic Trials for 5 hours, the 2004 Olympics in Athens for XX hours, and the 2004 World Championships from Indy for 11 hours. I don't ever remember swimming being on TV this much. And this does not include College TV or area cable stations that cover Conference and local college swimming.
This year I know that ESPN was going to cover the World Championships in Montreal similar to what they covered in Spain in 2003, if there is a meet which looks like there will be. I don't know about the World Championship trials in Indy next month. Probably not because they would already be up on the USA Swimming website. They are going to televise "Dual In The Pool" part 2 in August of this year from Australia. USA Nationals have not been televised since 2002 in Fort Lauderdale but there were no World Championships or Pan Pac's that year. So I think swimming has come a long away with better coverage than I can remember.
