I'm rooting for Dara (and Amanda as she's from Swim Atlanta).Good choices!
Dara is seeded fifth for tonight’s finals and Amanda is seeded first.
And on the men’s side the top 14 were all under 50 seconds. Geez, I remember when it was a big deal when the first man broke the 50 second barrier.
decent Mens 100 free
wonder if the foreign swimmers swim in the finals
I didn't think Peter Vanderkaay would be tonights top seed for American Men
isn't Neethling south african, Schoeman is
UT/Longhorn had Garrett, David Walters and Neil Walker made finals
Ricky Berens, Ian, and Dale Rodgers made consolations
It's also surprising Cullen Jones got squeezed out of finals with 9th place
I'm curious to see how fast tonight is.
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Holy crap on a stick!
Michael Phelps almost got the 200 back world record. I was so excited I almost pee'd my pants!
Absolutely phenomenal! I wish non swimmers could appreciate his talent.
tarwater died pretty bad in the 200 fly
out in 54.08 back in 61.9
that's almost an 8 sec diff
he needed to give a little on the front end to have more on the back
Totally. He races Phelps everyday in practice so he knows where he needs to be and what it takes to get the job done. I am sure Vendt is reaping the benefits of that young competitive group as well.
tarwater died pretty bad in the 200 fly
out in 54.08 back in 61.9
that's almost an 8 sec diff
he needed to give a little on the front end to have more on the back
Some of us like the go out like a bat out of hell and die method of racing as opposed to nice even splitting.
I'm rooting for Dara (and Amanda as she's from Swim Atlanta).
It's so crazy to see the year 67 listed for Dara's date of birth. We masters swimmers have no room to argue age anymore. Sigh.
It's absolutely insane how someone could dominate all disciplines like Phelps. Not only does he have the world record in both medleys,making him the best overall swimmer, but he came a third of a second from being able to claim the fastest 200 swimmer of three different strokes!
Just look at Phelps' best times against the best active competitor's times in each 200 discipline:
200FREE
Phelps 1:43.86
Hoogie 1:44.89
200BK
Phelps 1:54.65
Lochte 1:54.32
200BRST
Phelps 2:15.06
Hansen 2:08.50
200FLY
Phelps 1:52.09
Yamamoto 1:54.56
If you add up his times vs the best times of the specialists of each discipline, the specialists are only faster by 3.42 seconds-and the specialists only win because of Hansen's dominance in ***.
Wow.
