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
Former Member
this is what he said on the race club board today when asked how training for the olympics was going compared to other years
1995: I was swimming more. Lifting less. Partying more.
1999: In March was diagnosed with diabetes and told by two doctors that my swimming career was over. I wasn't swimming at all until summer.
2003: I was still working and hadn't started training for 2004.
2007: Building aerobic base, including spinnning classes and running. Lifting a lot. Swimming some. Gearing up for Pan Am's in July, but will continue to train through to the Olympic Trials.
this is what he said on the race club board today when asked how training for the olympics was going compared to other years
1995: I was swimming more. Lifting less. Partying more.
1999: In March was diagnosed with diabetes and told by two doctors that my swimming career was over. I wasn't swimming at all until summer.
2003: I was still working and hadn't started training for 2004.
2007: Building aerobic base, including spinnning classes and running. Lifting a lot. Swimming some. Gearing up for Pan Am's in July, but will continue to train through to the Olympic Trials.
