What's your opinion on best swim of all time ?
It probably won’t be a swim prior to the 70's.
I use to think that the best swim of all time would be a medley however I'm starting to change my tune on this.
For me now I think the truly finest swim would be a freestyle event...i.e Freestyle is more important than the strokes because it's unique.
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Originally posted by Matt S
The South African Men's 400 Free Relay World Record in 2004. The Springboks took down the two big boys looking for a rematch of their race from Sydney (coming from a smaller swimming nation like South Africa, that is already pretty impressive). They also broke the previous Australian World Record, which was itself nearly unimaginable. SO, the U.S. Record is now only the 3rd fastest swim of all time, in an event the Americans had never lost prior to 2000.
Of course we all know where they train.
By the way, not to take anything away from Hackett, but he didn't have a chest injury, he was recovering from pneumonia. The media misreported the story, saying he had a collapsed lung. In reality he had what's called atelectasis, which is compression/underexpansion of lung tissue (in this case due to the infection) detected on an X-ray. Larsen Jensen's swim was very impressive, too--he split the race exactly as planned (within tenths of a second) and nearly caught Hackett.
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Originally posted by Matt S
The South African Men's 400 Free Relay World Record in 2004. The Springboks took down the two big boys looking for a rematch of their race from Sydney (coming from a smaller swimming nation like South Africa, that is already pretty impressive). They also broke the previous Australian World Record, which was itself nearly unimaginable. SO, the U.S. Record is now only the 3rd fastest swim of all time, in an event the Americans had never lost prior to 2000.
Of course we all know where they train.
By the way, not to take anything away from Hackett, but he didn't have a chest injury, he was recovering from pneumonia. The media misreported the story, saying he had a collapsed lung. In reality he had what's called atelectasis, which is compression/underexpansion of lung tissue (in this case due to the infection) detected on an X-ray. Larsen Jensen's swim was very impressive, too--he split the race exactly as planned (within tenths of a second) and nearly caught Hackett.
