some of us might enjoy following the world championships
you can find worlds results at
http://www.omegatiming.com/
first click on
"XI FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS"
then click on
"Swimming"
on the top middle of the page
July 24 Day 8
Preliminaries
SESSION 1 09:30
100 m Butterfly (W)
400 m Free (M)
200 m IM (W)
50 m Butterfly (M)
400 m Free (W)
100 m *** (M)
4x100 m Free (W)
4x100 mFree (M)
Finals
SESSION 2 18:00 - 20:00
100 m Butterfly (W)– Semi
400 m Free (M)
200 m IM (W)– Semi
50 m Butterfly (M)– Semi
400 m Free (W)
100 m *** (M)– Semi
4x100 m Free (W)
4x100 m Free (M)
July 25 Day 9
Preliminaries
SESSION 3 09:30
100 m Back (W)
200 m Free (M)
100 m *** (W)
100 m Back (M)
1500 m Free (W)
Finals
SESSION 4 18:00 - 20:00
50 m Butterfly (M)
100 m *** (W)– Semi
100 m *** (M)
100 m Butterfly (W)
200 m Free (M)– Semi
100 m Back (W)– Semi
100 m Back (M)– Semi
200 m IM (W)
July 26 Day 10
Preliminaries
SESSION 5 09:30
50 m *** (M)
200 m Butterfly (M)
200 m Free (W)
800 m Free (M)
Finals
SESSION 6 18:00 - 20:10
1500 m Free (W)
50 m *** (M)– Semi
100 m Back (W)
200 m Butterfly (M)– Semi
100 m *** (W)
100 m Back (M)
200 m Free (W)– Semi
200 m Free (M)
July 27 Day 11
Preliminaries
SESSION 7 09:30
50 m Back (W)
100 m Free (M)
200 m Butterfly (W)
200 m IM (M)
Finals
SESSION 8 18:00 - 20:00
100 m Free (M)– Semi
50 m Back (W)– Semi
50 m *** (M)
200 m Free (W)
200 m Butterfly (M)
200 m Butterfly (W)– Semi
200 m IM (M)– Semi
800 m Free (M)
July 28 Day 12
Preliminaries
SESSION 9 09:30
100 m Free (W)
200 m Back (M)
200 m *** (W)
200 m *** (M)
4x200 m Free (W)
Finals
SESSION 10 18:00 - 20:10
100 m Free (W)– Semi
200 m *** (M)– Semi
50 m Back (W)
100 m Free (M)
200 m Butterfly (W)
200 m Back (M)– Semi
200 m *** (W)– Semi
200 m IM (M)
4x200 m Free (W)
July 29 Day 13
Preliminaries
SESSION 11 09:30
50 m Butterfly (W)
50 m Free (M)
800 m Free (W)
100 m Butterfly (M)
200 m Back (W)
4x200 m Free (M)
Finals
SESSION 12 18:00 - 20:10
100 m Free (W)
200 m Back (M)
200 m Back (W)– Semi
50 m Free (M)– Semi
200 m *** (W)
100 m Butterfly (M)– Semi
50 m Butterfly (W)– Semi
200 m *** (M)
4x200 m Free (M)
July 30 Day 14
Preliminaries
SESSION 13 09:30
50 m Free (W)
50 m Back (M)
50 m *** (W)
1500 m Free (M)
4x100 m Medley (W)
Finals
SESSION 14 18:00 - 20:10
50 m Butterfly (W)
50 m Free (M)
200 m Back (W)
100 m Butterfly (M)
50 m *** (W)– Semi
50 m Free (W)– Semi
50 m Back (M)– Semi
800 m Free (W)
4x100 m Medley (W)
July 31 Day 15
Preliminaries
SESSION 15 09:30
400 m IM (M)
400 m IM (W)
4x100 m Medley (M)
Finals
SESSION 16 18:00 - 20:10
50 m Back (M)
50 m *** (W)
400 m IM (M)
50 m Free (W)
1500 m Free (M)
400 m IM (W)
4x100 m Medley (M)
CLOSING CEREMONY
I happen to see yesterdays coverage on FOX College Sports. Wow, what a difference from the CBC coverage. They are showing every event final and even the medal awards presentations. They hardly have any commericals and well worth the extra $4.95 per month. The swimming analysis is being done by Marianne Limpert, Canada's siver medalist in the 200 IM at the 1996 Olympics.
The best races of the night were the Women's 200 Fly, Men's 100 Free, and the Women's 800 Free Relay. The women's fly had both swimmers break the World Record and were only separated by .04. The 100 Free reminded me of Athens because Roland Schoeman went out fast and got passed at the flags just like last night. They flashed his split at the 50 and he was .74 below WR pace. I didn't expect Phelps to win this but he was close to his best time and had the 200 IM final later. They showed the Men's 200 Back and it appears that Aron Piersol would be the favorite with maybe challenges from Markus Rogan and Ryan Lochette. He like Phelps had the 200 IM final with only 2 heats of 200 *** and he would be up.
The 200 IM was real interesting. It was the first time in at least 3 years that Phelps was behind on the first 3 legs. He actually out split Czeh on the breastroke which is something he had not done on the 2 previous times they raced. They hit the wall about even going into free and Phelps did his classic pushoff underwater and came up about a half body length on Czeh and that was pretty much the end of that challenge. Czeh seems to be weakest in Free because he seemed to have a big lead on Lochette and was getting caught as the race was coming to the wall. If that race would have been 2 meters more he would have had the silver. This sets up a great race for the 400 IM between these two. Lazlo Czeh has already gone 4:10 this year and I believe Lochette or anybody else is going to have to do that or better to beat this guy. I think Czeh suprised everyone going out the gate like that.
The Women's 800 Free Relay was a classic race. Katlin Sandeno reminded me of the Jenny Thompson of the 90's the way she swam that anchor leg. From the camera it looked like Natlie wasn't happy with her swim but the relay was within a half second of the WR from Athens and Natlie had a great split from that swim back then and I don't think she was as fast here but the other 3 probably were faster than the 2004 group.
Tonight we see the Men's 100 Fly semi final and see if it going to be Ian Crocker, Michael Phelps, or somebody else. The Women's 100 Free should be interesting also. I am wondering if the Men's 800 Free relay can break 7:07? I don't think anybody is going to challenge them. Australia could if they had Thorpe, but will be fighting for the silver with the rest. Also it will be interesting to see how Ryan Lochette does on the World stage in the 200 Back. He was great this past spring at NCAA's and wonder if he will put up a challenge to Aron Piersol and the rest of the field.
I happen to see yesterdays coverage on FOX College Sports. Wow, what a difference from the CBC coverage. They are showing every event final and even the medal awards presentations. They hardly have any commericals and well worth the extra $4.95 per month. The swimming analysis is being done by Marianne Limpert, Canada's siver medalist in the 200 IM at the 1996 Olympics.
The best races of the night were the Women's 200 Fly, Men's 100 Free, and the Women's 800 Free Relay. The women's fly had both swimmers break the World Record and were only separated by .04. The 100 Free reminded me of Athens because Roland Schoeman went out fast and got passed at the flags just like last night. They flashed his split at the 50 and he was .74 below WR pace. I didn't expect Phelps to win this but he was close to his best time and had the 200 IM final later. They showed the Men's 200 Back and it appears that Aron Piersol would be the favorite with maybe challenges from Markus Rogan and Ryan Lochette. He like Phelps had the 200 IM final with only 2 heats of 200 *** and he would be up.
The 200 IM was real interesting. It was the first time in at least 3 years that Phelps was behind on the first 3 legs. He actually out split Czeh on the breastroke which is something he had not done on the 2 previous times they raced. They hit the wall about even going into free and Phelps did his classic pushoff underwater and came up about a half body length on Czeh and that was pretty much the end of that challenge. Czeh seems to be weakest in Free because he seemed to have a big lead on Lochette and was getting caught as the race was coming to the wall. If that race would have been 2 meters more he would have had the silver. This sets up a great race for the 400 IM between these two. Lazlo Czeh has already gone 4:10 this year and I believe Lochette or anybody else is going to have to do that or better to beat this guy. I think Czeh suprised everyone going out the gate like that.
The Women's 800 Free Relay was a classic race. Katlin Sandeno reminded me of the Jenny Thompson of the 90's the way she swam that anchor leg. From the camera it looked like Natlie wasn't happy with her swim but the relay was within a half second of the WR from Athens and Natlie had a great split from that swim back then and I don't think she was as fast here but the other 3 probably were faster than the 2004 group.
Tonight we see the Men's 100 Fly semi final and see if it going to be Ian Crocker, Michael Phelps, or somebody else. The Women's 100 Free should be interesting also. I am wondering if the Men's 800 Free relay can break 7:07? I don't think anybody is going to challenge them. Australia could if they had Thorpe, but will be fighting for the silver with the rest. Also it will be interesting to see how Ryan Lochette does on the World stage in the 200 Back. He was great this past spring at NCAA's and wonder if he will put up a challenge to Aron Piersol and the rest of the field.
