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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I can't see too much I'd disagree with here.
For me I think back and remember the swims that made me think "I don't believe that".
Janet Evan's 400 Free and then the 800 Free.....as posted
.....and she had an interesting style....
Grant Hackett's 1500 Free after Perkins previous mark....as posted.....
Ian Thorpe’s 400 Free. Which I think will surprise us and out last them all.
And my one that I suggest is above a few on the list is Ian Crocker's 50.4 for 100 Fly......Give him a tumble turn and he'd go 49+......that's Fly not Free and it beats Phelps ????
I agree we've yet to see Phelp's best in IM's...
For longevity of performance I agree on Dawn Fraser...she could have won 4 golds...if not for one bureaucrat’s personal agenda...
Matt Biondi gets my vote on best meet performance just ahead of Mark Spitz.
100 SCM free at the 2004 NCAA championships. He set a world record from an outside lane (fourth seed, I think). The announcers had barely mentioned his name until the last 25. The camera was never on him
Thanks Kim.
That the stuff I like to hear.
It reminds me of Kerin Perkin's win in the 1500m at Atlanta.Many had written him off before and during the meet.He had been sick and wasn't swimming well.He qualified for the final in Lane 8 which means he definately wasn't going good.You shouldn't just scrape in when your're the Olympic champion.In the final he just went out at a pace he hadn't produced for some time and remarkably held it together.Most people expected him to die but you could soon tell he was a changed swimmer fiom the heats to the final.How he got it back together that quick is a miracle.
Don't forget Mike Barrowman's WR in1992 in the 200 Br. Also Liesel Jones recent 100 and 200 Br. WR's are unbelievable.In one year she moved so far ahead of the rest of the world it's astounding.
