I watched a 30 minute clip of the events held yesterday. No LZR there, no worlds records, a couple of Canadian records. It is good to see a few records broken without LZRs.
A very nice 100 m butterfly by a tiny young lady.
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CBC Vancouver has the trials on now 11 am. They are on for a couple of hours.
Hayden has a bulging disc, he may not swim the 50.
Trials now on for 3hrs 15 min and still on CBC Vancouver.
3.5 hours on CBC in Ottawa and my blood pressure has shot way up.
It seems that the object of the airing is to show the commentators and how clever and witty they are (Scott Russell ?), lots of interviews; they don't have time to show the whole women's 800m freestyle because they have to break for commercials..... The most annoying sports commentator in the World: Steve Armitage. "It's swimming that you're calling; not a horse-race.... Tone down. You'll get a hernia and you're giving me high blood pressure". Byron McDonald is not any better: he has three or four clichés that he has been using (and re-using) for every race in every event for the last ten or so years. And what's with the lane numbering?
1 to 10 and swimmers use 2 to 9. What's wrong with 0 to 9 (swimmers in 1 to 8 as they have been doing since the beginning of the last Century)? Why is the fastest qualifier in Lane 5 and not in 4?
The one redeeming factor in those three hours plus: They showed a short spot about Speedo and LZRs with Phelps and the most beautiful shots of Nathalie Coughlin. She is even prettier and hotter than I ever thought.
CBC Vancouver has the trials on now 11 am. They are on for a couple of hours.
Hayden has a bulging disc, he may not swim the 50.
Trials now on for 3hrs 15 min and still on CBC Vancouver.
3.5 hours on CBC in Ottawa and my blood pressure has shot way up.
It seems that the object of the airing is to show the commentators and how clever and witty they are (Scott Russell ?), lots of interviews; they don't have time to show the whole women's 800m freestyle because they have to break for commercials..... The most annoying sports commentator in the World: Steve Armitage. "It's swimming that you're calling; not a horse-race.... Tone down. You'll get a hernia and you're giving me high blood pressure". Byron McDonald is not any better: he has three or four clichés that he has been using (and re-using) for every race in every event for the last ten or so years. And what's with the lane numbering?
1 to 10 and swimmers use 2 to 9. What's wrong with 0 to 9 (swimmers in 1 to 8 as they have been doing since the beginning of the last Century)? Why is the fastest qualifier in Lane 5 and not in 4?
The one redeeming factor in those three hours plus: They showed a short spot about Speedo and LZRs with Phelps and the most beautiful shots of Nathalie Coughlin. She is even prettier and hotter than I ever thought.
