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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She's a great freestyler, as well. I believe she went a 47 in the 100 free at NCAAs.
Julia is an outstanding and versatile swimmer. At NCAAs she finished 2nd in 100 free (47.56), 5th in 200 IM (1:55.45), and 3rd 200 free (1:43.64). She didn't swim the 100 back - I assume to save for the 800 free relay.
I tried to watch the web cast I could not get it to work this afternoon. The morning was fine.
I will watch it tonite on CBC, comes on at 8 tonite. I see that Hayden got beat in the 200m final.
The CBC National Network is showing this meet from 2:00 to 5:30 PM on Saturday, April 5. I happen to see it in the TV listings here in Michigan. If you live close to the border you can probably pick this up.
I did get the live webcast this morning. They said during the web broadcast that the finals would be on the webcast at 6pm Eastern Standard time tonite. http://www.swimming.ca/
Julie a great swim again tonite, Brendan H wins the 100.
Eight swimmers under 50 sec for the 100 finals tonite. Hayden 49.04.
I need new glasses. Below is how my first scan of the post registered on my brain
=== Preliminaries ===
1 Hayden, Brent 24-83 UBCD 48.43 49.04 q955
r:+0.81 23.44 49.04 (25.60)
And I thought "Take that, Alain and Eamon!"
Then :dunno:
Wait til the Canadians dawn their LZRs the way every one talks about them 43.09 may be Hayden's time as you thought. You do understand that pool is considered to be a very slow pool, they say it is about 1.5 seconds per 100 on the slow side.
I need new glasses. Below is how my first scan of the post registered on my brain
And I thought "Take that, Alain and Eamon!"
Then :dunno:
Wow, I'm surprised by that. He looked great at NCAAs. I guess he just couldn't hold onto his taper that long.
I'm surprised too. Kornfeld dominated at NCAAs. Not sure how Wilkinson is doing it because she swam very well at Big12s, three weeks before NCAAs, swam superb there, and two weeks later is still swimming fast.
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.
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.
