Craigh:
The answer to your first ? is Yes. Fred Bousquet is from France. In fact 8 out 16 swimmers in the 50 Free for both finals and consols are foreign. The Cal Free relay that set the 200 Free record are all foreign swimmers. I believe the Medley with Barbosa was also.
The Auburn 200 Fee relay that did 1:16.00 and finshed 2nd had two foreign swimmers.
The guy you scored the most points at an NCAA Championship in a career was Pablo Moralas from 1984 - 1987 and he won 11 out 12 events entered during that time. John Naber had the record previously at 10 events. There have been many that have won the 3 individual event that the NCAA allows you. The ones that come to mind are Spitz, Hall, Trembly, Naber, Goodell, Biondi, etc.
Originally posted by valhallan
This is a phenomenon in a short course pool where one can actually body surf the bow wave of the nearby swimmers as they push off the wall. (Assuming that they're traveling at 2.5 yards per second.)
Obviously the guys in the lanes on his left and right created a small, yet forceful enough bow wave when they broke out of the turn that he was able to get a boost from their forward momentum.
Yeah..that's how he did it. ;)
Nice theory except, since he was ahead, he would be in front of everyone else's bow wave.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
Just looked at the sheets. what about Ryan Lochte's 200 IM record! Is he going to have one of the best nationals a guy has ever had?
Actually he doesn't look as sharp as he did at SECs. He narrowly lost the 100 back last night.
Just looked at the sheets. what about Ryan Lochte's 200 IM record! Is he going to have one of the best nationals a guy has ever had?
Yesterday, I wsa rowing at the Y. I had on the women's NCAA, the lady on a bike next to me asked what we wer watching. the after I told her what it was, she said, "Why would anyone care?" I wsa not happy. In my town, the two swim teams have been the only teams that have been successfullin almost ten years. they swim unknown.
Originally posted by osterber
Not quite.
1) BOUSQUET, FRED SR AUBURN :18.74** :18.90
:09.38 :09.52
** NCAA Record: US OPEN Record: POOL RECORD:
2) DRAGANJA, DUJE SR CAL. BERKELEY :19.32 :19.01
-Rick
You are correct, Sir. Sorry about that. I was looking at his prelim heat. My mistake.
Originally posted by valhallan
Kirk,
In many of my ocean travels (being part Viking of course)... I have had the pleasure of watching porpoises catch a free ride off the bow of a ship for miles on end. The energy being dispersed off the front end of a ship (or any object moving through water) will create enough force and lift to generate forward momentum if you were to *catch the wave*.
You are confused perhaps with the "wake" of an object moving through water. Similar to the bow wave, all objects create a wake as they move through this element. There are many instances of surfers who have ridden long boards on the wake of a passing oil tanker. (Not a good idea in my opinion.)
Nevertheless, as a swimmer you want to ride the bow wave of your opponent rather than the wake. Needless to say, all three swimmers need to be traveling at 2.5 yards pers second for this to happen. ...and one of them just slightly ahead of the others. ;)
No, I'm not confused. I just don't think the swimmer in the lead is catching anyone's wave.
1) Did anyone se the showing of the swim on CNN over the weekend. They showed it one time during a segment about what is happening besides the thing in Florida. It ws amazing. It looked like fast motion. Bousquet's stroke looked smooth, not thrashing like some. He had flipped before I ready to really absorb his swimming. I wonder how fast he could do my favorite set - 20x100?
2) I knew htat pablo had scored the most throughout his career. I don't know who has scored the most during one NCAA. Is it a man or a woman?
3) Wouldn't he be catching the bow wave from the next lane that lane left behind? the swimmer next to him would have left a wave that Bousquet would then catch after his turn. Since that wave would be travelling back towards the blocks, it coudl carry him.
Originally posted by valhallan
Seriously,..with the design of today's lane lines, it's very unlikely that a wave could be generated from one lane to the next. But it's possible. This would be a good one for the myth busters.
Now I am confused. Didn't you originally speculate that riding the other swimmer's bow wave gave him an advantage?
As an interesting aside, a swimmer at Men's Pac 10s (Gimbutis) was DQed in the finals of the 200 free for unfairly allowing a teammate to draft off him for the first 100. Gimbutis took out the first 100 very fast, riding right on the lane line, and the other Cal swimmer stayed right at his hip, riding his bow wave. At the 100 Gimbutis shifted into warm down speed. So, apparently the coaches and officials there believe the wave can cross the lane lines otherwise there wouldn't be much rationale to DQ Gimbutis. I think their justification for the DQ was Gimbutis not giving a legitimate effort or some similar wording in the rule book.
