I am so not happy about Fox giving her this hosting gig. Then again, I was always on Team Evans when the Janet Evans and Summer Sanders feud was happening. The sports media never portrayed Matt Biondi and Tom Yaeger(don't remember his last name that well) feuding with each other.
First of all thanks Jim. I just have a nack at remembering these things. Its too bad I don't have a nack for other complicted things.
Tom, I know that the Stanford teams, both men and women have extensive weight training and its been documented in Swimming Technique in the late 1980's. I never heard any specfic complaint that I can remember about weight training in regard to Janet and how it did not contribute to improvement to peak levels. I do remember Richard Quick being asked questions about the specfic training and usually he answered with, we do this as a team, for the team benefits. It usually came off as rah, rah, Stanford.
Janet Evans made a statement saying she was not satisfied with the distance training program at Stanford. She did say that with the training she had at the school she was able to improve her 200 Free and sprints. She did her best time of 2:00.67 in the 1991 Word Championships in Perth losing to Hayley Lewis. I bring Haley Lewis up because she was the first one to challenge Janet in the distance events in 5 years. At the 1991 World Championships, Janet won by less than .05 in the 400 Free. At the 1994 World Championships it was even closer in the 800 Free with Janet winning by a less of a margin. No one up to this point had ever challenged Janet Evans in the 3 distance events and after 1991 people started to challenge.
After Janet left, Richard Quick said there never was a problem and that they just had there differences. The press did not believe him and that's how this Evans/Sanders feud started. I can believe how Richard could be the peacemaker because in the book "Gold In The Water" by PH Mullen, it was documented that he secretly trained Dara Tores because he felt the workouts with Dara and Jenny Thompson were to intense and not helping either of them and this was how he choose to handle this. However, sooner or later everyone found out and the press had a field day with this.
Tom, regarding Michael Phelps, I think the source of the information is incorrect because I have never, ever, heard of a 10 million figure being reported anywhere. Not that the man is a pauper, but 10 million seems a little excessive.
First of all thanks Jim. I just have a nack at remembering these things. Its too bad I don't have a nack for other complicted things.
Tom, I know that the Stanford teams, both men and women have extensive weight training and its been documented in Swimming Technique in the late 1980's. I never heard any specfic complaint that I can remember about weight training in regard to Janet and how it did not contribute to improvement to peak levels. I do remember Richard Quick being asked questions about the specfic training and usually he answered with, we do this as a team, for the team benefits. It usually came off as rah, rah, Stanford.
Janet Evans made a statement saying she was not satisfied with the distance training program at Stanford. She did say that with the training she had at the school she was able to improve her 200 Free and sprints. She did her best time of 2:00.67 in the 1991 Word Championships in Perth losing to Hayley Lewis. I bring Haley Lewis up because she was the first one to challenge Janet in the distance events in 5 years. At the 1991 World Championships, Janet won by less than .05 in the 400 Free. At the 1994 World Championships it was even closer in the 800 Free with Janet winning by a less of a margin. No one up to this point had ever challenged Janet Evans in the 3 distance events and after 1991 people started to challenge.
After Janet left, Richard Quick said there never was a problem and that they just had there differences. The press did not believe him and that's how this Evans/Sanders feud started. I can believe how Richard could be the peacemaker because in the book "Gold In The Water" by PH Mullen, it was documented that he secretly trained Dara Tores because he felt the workouts with Dara and Jenny Thompson were to intense and not helping either of them and this was how he choose to handle this. However, sooner or later everyone found out and the press had a field day with this.
Tom, regarding Michael Phelps, I think the source of the information is incorrect because I have never, ever, heard of a 10 million figure being reported anywhere. Not that the man is a pauper, but 10 million seems a little excessive.
