Alain Bernard clocks a world record of 47.60 in the 100 free
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Alain Bernard just set a new world record of 47.60 in the 100 free at the European Championships in Eindhoven!
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A lot of buzz about Sullivan, but Bernard lowered his PB by 2 secs in less that 2 years, impressive muscles.
France have 4 mens with mid 48s or less ( 1 47.60), not ever the great USA can match this one todays.
All of them out of nowhere...
After The French fries... French Juice ? :) :)
Great race by the way. VDH out, Magnini out of sharpe, tomorrow look a walk for Bernard to win the gold medal.
The guy is huge.
The preconceptions we have of people are very curious. I had never seen a photo of him and for some reason or other imagined him to be less muscular. Well defined, but more wiry and of smaller frame. But he is a brute, isn't he. His shoulders are enormous. All the better to power him through the water with. He has a similar upper body build to Magnini but even bigger.
The 400 (or 4x100 as they like to say) free relay should be very interesting in Beijing.
Alain seems to have a fairly traditional stroke. The short segment they showed underwater it didn't look like he used a very high elbow position. It seemed like his arms were almost straight.
Yup I noticed that too and on replay it looked like his right arm had a very slight elbow bend (not EVF and not EDF by any streatch) and his left arm was even straighter. Yet his arm recovery looked very smooth.
The 400 (or 4x100 as they like to say) free relay should be very interesting in Beijing.
Alain seems to have a fairly traditional stroke. The short segment they showed underwater it didn't look like he used a very high elbow position. It seemed like his arms were almost straight.
