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
On the FOX Sports Network website last week they had listed that they will provide coverage of the meet but they had not announced further details of the coverage. This week they announced that it will be covered on Fox College Sports TV, which is not the FOX network that provided the 1998 FINA World Championships. So if you don't have this as part of your cable package, you are out of luck unless you can pick up CBC.
FOX College Sports will provide coverage starting Sunday, July 24, 2005 from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM ET. It will be shown for the next 7 days at the same time everyday ending Sunday, July 31, 2005. The coverage is for aquatic sports, so the 16 hours has all of the other disciplines and swimming will be part of the coverage everyday. FOX College Sports has 3 regions and I am pretty sure it will be shown in all 3 regions.
Former Member
Does anybody know if any American broadcast companies are showing them? I remember reading in the other thread that the Canadian Broadcast Company is showing them, but it made no mention about like ESPN or FOX. Anybody know?
There are financial incentives for athletes to break world records. And it's national pride.
Coming right off worlds, there might be some good performances.
But I expected more individual world records in Athens, so you never know how a meet will pan out. Just watch and enjoy.
Former Member
Thank you. I don't know where I got the idea that it was highlights for worlds.
Does any one think that Duel in the Pool will be as exciting as worlds looks like it might be? I knid of thought that the Duel in the Pool in Indy didn't live up to all of the hype.
Craiglll:
NBC is showing Duel in the Pool, which is Team USA vs. Team Australia. It will be shown on August 6 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM ET and on August 7 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET. If you want to know more about the details of that meet go to the USA swimming site at www.usaswimming.org which has a link to this site also in the links section. It has a story about the meet, the type of events in dual meet format and the swimmers that will be swimming in the meet.
Former Member
Isn't NBC going to show highlights onthe 6th & 7th of August?
I remember the 1991 World Championships being shown on network TV. It was pretty much the whole meet crammed into two hours, but still worth it.
With the huge mass appeal of Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin, airing worlds on a network would be a no-brainer. But oh well.
I agree with what everyone is saying and I will add some more information as to why I don't think a major network is providing the World Championships. ESPN and ESPN2 were very successful in carrying the 2003 Championships from Spain and they had at least 12 hours of aquatic coverage. Rumor has it that they had a contract for this meet but it was cancelled when FINA pulled the Montreal bid and for a while the meet was uncertain as to where it was going to be, if it would be held at all. Cities like Athens, Berlin, and Moscow were interested and were going to put bids together for the meet.
Then some strange things happen like the head organizer for Montreal was found dead of an apparent sucide and then a couple of weeks later FINA announced that the meet was going back to Montreal and the financial woes have apppartently been straigthten out. Because of this uncertainty, I am convinced that the major networks did not want to get caught holding the bag so to speak, so none of them bid on the meet.
FOX Sports announced on there website that they would carry the meet but were very vague until this week when they announced that College Sports Net would provide the coverage.
In 2001, when the championships were in Japan, I don't believe there was any coverage, even tape delay. The 1998 Perth and 1994 Rome Championships were covered tape delay.
Swimming has been very succesful in the last 2 years and I really feel that if the meet was not originally dropped by FINA, you would have the same coverage that was provided by Spain in 2003. I am lucky because I can pick up CBC real well. Also today my cable company was having a special to add stations and for $4.95 per month I get all these sports stations including FOX College Sports Net. I am in the Eastern division which is one of the 3 regions they will show the coverage. I plan on watching and taping both coverages as I have done in the past.
Former Member
The more I think about this event not being covered by a major network, the more it irks me. For crying out loud, the NCAA swimming championships were covered on ESPN. If NCAA is important then a WORLD championship sure as hell should be. It's hard to believe that people would rather watch a bunch of rerun amateur boxing matches on ESPN than the fastest swimmers in the world giving their all.
Former Member
I hear you, but like it or not, they would show it if they could sell space. Ratings are all that matter, believe me if they thought they could get better ratings NOT showing boxing reruns or whatever they would.
I think the only sport on the networks that is there in spite of bad ratings, is the WNBA. They show that b/c the NBA subsidizes the sport. Nothing against woman's basketball, I actually think women are better pure shooters than men for the most part.
I guess if we could get some sort of major league to subsidize swimming we could get airtime.
