Very welcome. I'm used to you posting them.
21.46!
That's incredibly fast.
Wonder how many body dolphins she used.
It seems as if the backstrokers are bringing their Ninja kicking skills to the freestyle events.
And here's the quote of the day, from Day One of the web coverage.
Dara Torres showed up during the first part of the broadcast. The commentator interviewed her during the heats of the 500. He talked about Omaha, site of the 2008 Olympic Trials. He commented that it's a nice town, they have a great zoo, etc. Then he said, "And the Qwest Center is going to be a great venue for the Trials."
Dara said, "The Qwest Center. Do you know if that's a fast pool?"
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It is even more awesome in person, right on the deck at the start/finish. Jealous?:thhbbb:
So, Rob, what happened after the heat of the 200 IM where the backstroke flags fell into the water? It looked like one swimmer ran into them and took a couple of freestyle strokes during the breaststroke leg. Did they let him swim the race again?
Anna Lea
I seriously doubt Robert Margalis was pumping his fist in the air after realizing he shattered the USMS record. Unless he reads this post and/or someone tells him, he probably won't apply for the record.
In other news, Erik Scalise, who made his USMS debut at nationals last spring, went 1:49.7 in the 200 IM. He was the one who did the freestyle strokes after running into the flags. He's 30 now, so he's going to have to swim/train real hard if he wants to take down Dr. Ron's record of 1:47.
I saw that Michael Phelps put a reasonable seed time in at :42.43 in the 100 and its unlike the 200 Free where he put a 1:29.84, which is 1.18 seconds faster than what Simon Burnett did at NCAA's when he set the US Open Record. I wonder if he will be the first swimmer to break the 1:30 barrier?
It looks like he used converted times for some of the events which he holds the WR long course. I'd be pretty amazed if he broke 1:30 in the 200 free.
