With all the Melbourne hoopla and record smashing performances I thought I'd start a 2008 prediction thread and resurect it in a year and a half and see how we all did ...
First, I don't think Beard will make the team, she needs to get her butt to a meet and I reserve the right to change my opinion on that based on any swims she does in the future ...
Women's team ..
50 free - Coughlin & Joyce
100 free - Coughlin & Weir
200 free - Coughlin & Hoff (or Vollmer if Natalie opts out)
400 free - Hoff & Ziegler
800 free - Peirsol & Ziegler
100 back - Coughlin & Vaziri
200 back - Hoelzer & Vaziri
100 *** - Kirk & Hardy
200 ***- Kirk & Jendrick
100 fly - Coughlin & Vollmer
200 fly - Sandeno & Van den Berg
200 IM - Hoff & Myers
400 IM - Hoff & Sandeno
4 relay spots 100 free - Joyce, Nymeyer, Corriea, and Hoff
4 relay spots 200 free - Sandeno, Nymeyer, Myers, and Weir
Men
50 free - Jones & Lezak
100 free - Jones & Lezak
200 free - Phelps & Vanderkaay
400 free - Vanderkaay & Keller
1500 free - Vendt & Jensen
100 back - Peirsol & Lochte
200 back - Peirsol & Phelps (or Lochte)
100 *** - Hansen & Usher
200 *** - Hansen & Usher
100 fly - Crocker & Phelps
200 fly - Phelps & Madwed
200 IM - Phelps & Lochte
400 IM - Phelps & Vendt
4 relay spots 100 free - Walker, Wildman-Tobriner, Weber-Gale, & Hall
4 relay spots 200 free - Cramer, Peirsol, Keller, and Lochte
Not really any shockers ...
Parents
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Posted in Gary Hall Jr.'s aqua notes
BACK AND GRUMPY AS HELL IN MY OLD AGE:
I went to the Janet Evans Invitational and posted a 22.7 for the 50 free after five weeks of training and a shark attack. I placed 6th (tied for 6th) behind in-season speed demon Jason Lezak and the always fast Roland Schoeman, among other very talented swimmers. I was pleased but still my expectations are realistic for this summer's Nationals. A couple months of training after a couple of years off is a short season, even for me. But, I know what I'm doing. I'm training for the 2008 Olympic Games.
My post about changing the sport, joking, wink, wink comments about *** strokers, the impotence of a rich, content governing body, and punching out a shark is evidence that I'm getting fiestier in my old age of 31. So look out.
But still I remain,
sincerely yours,
Gary
12:03 PM
Training for the olympic games...not just for trails
looks like he started training last summer
Posted in Gary Hall Jr.'s aqua notes
BACK AND GRUMPY AS HELL IN MY OLD AGE:
I went to the Janet Evans Invitational and posted a 22.7 for the 50 free after five weeks of training and a shark attack. I placed 6th (tied for 6th) behind in-season speed demon Jason Lezak and the always fast Roland Schoeman, among other very talented swimmers. I was pleased but still my expectations are realistic for this summer's Nationals. A couple months of training after a couple of years off is a short season, even for me. But, I know what I'm doing. I'm training for the 2008 Olympic Games.
My post about changing the sport, joking, wink, wink comments about *** strokers, the impotence of a rich, content governing body, and punching out a shark is evidence that I'm getting fiestier in my old age of 31. So look out.
But still I remain,
sincerely yours,
Gary
12:03 PM
Training for the olympic games...not just for trails
looks like he started training last summer
