What are the abbreviations at the top of the results? I can figure out some but not all:
WR: world record
AR: American record
US: ????
CR: course record?
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A couple things I noticed:
- no Katie Hoff in the 400 IM
- no Kate Ziegler in the 1500 free.
Similarly: No Phelps in the 200 fly nor the 400 IM (nor the 200 IM for that matter). Maybe Katie Hoff and Kate Ziegler are just focusing on events other than their absolute best events (as hrietz points out more or less in postings #6 and #7)? I noticed that Katie Hoff and Kate Ziegler had some pretty close swims against one another in both the 400 free and the 800 free though....I bet those were both very interesting races to watch live!
they didn't swim their best events because they didn't want to break the world records this year, they want to save them for the olympic years
Similarly: No Phelps in the 200 fly nor the 400 IM (nor the 200 IM for that matter). Maybe Katie Hoff and Kate Ziegler are just focusing on events other than their absolute best events (as hrietz points out more or less in postings #6 and #7)? I noticed that Katie Hoff and Kate Ziegler had some pretty close swims against one another in both the 400 free and the 800 free though....I bet those were both very interesting races to watch live!
they didn't swim their best events because they didn't want to break the world records this year, they want to save them for the olympic years
That, and/or maybe they're bored swimming the same darn events over and over and over and over and over again in these big meets. Why not try something else for sheets and goggles every now and again, right?
