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 ...
Not at all what I am saying. I simply mean that the dept of talent in the US is so great that no one is guaranteed their spot ... even Phelps, though I can't imagine he'd miss the team in ANY event ... you train to go fast at trials, build up and taper again to fast at the Olympics. You can't hold back at trials or you could miss the team ...
Not at all what I am saying. I simply mean that the dept of talent in the US is so great that no one is guaranteed their spot ... even Phelps, though I can't imagine he'd miss the team in ANY event ... you train to go fast at trials, build up and taper again to fast at the Olympics. You can't hold back at trials or you could miss the team ...
