Grand Prix meets this weekend

Kate Ziegler is only just getting over a nasty bout of the flu.

Kate Ziegler is only just getting over a nasty bout of the flu. Yes, Ziegler's swimming very well all things considered. But Katie Hoff is a monster! As swimnews pointed out over a month ago, Hoff might reach 7 golds before Phelps does: swimnews.com/.../displayStory.jhtml

Coughlin just went a 2:10.88 200 IM - insane! Does she swim it at Trials? What would it conflict with?

Funny story about Phelps missing his 400 free prelim: sports.espn.go.com/.../story Toyota highlights: Hoff 4:34.49 400 IM Phelps 4:13.73, Vendt 4:17.07 400 IM Bousquet 21.90, Cielo 21.93, Hall Jr 22.29 50 Free Hansen 2:13.20, Shanteau 2:13.33 200 *** Peirsol 54.84, Cromwell 55.26 100 Back Ziegler 4:07.27 400 Free PVanderkaay 3:44.41 400 Free Hoff 55.01 medley relay anchor Stanford highlights: Coughlin 2:10.88 200 IM Klete Keller 3:45.28 400 Free TKirk 1:07.33, Jendrick 1:08.18 100 ***

Toyota Grand Prix highlights: Women's 800 free: Hoff 8:19.70, Ziegler 8:31.34 Men's 100 ***: Hansen 1:01.10, Shanteau 1:02.46, Phelps 1:02.80 Men's 200 free: PVanderkaay 1:46.78, Phelps 1:47.09 Women's 100 fly: Hoff 1:00.15 (Katie Hoff won a butterfly event? Well... why not?) Men's 100 fly: Phelps 51.90, Bousquet 52.29, Puninski 52.61 Women's 800 Free Relay: Katie Hoff anchored with a 1:56 Stanford Grand Prix highlights: Women's 100 free: Coughlin 53.94 in the consols Men's 100 free: Lezak 49.53, 4 others under 50 Women's 200 ***: Jendrick 2:25.36

Cesar under 22 in prelims in the 50, impressive.

Still hanging onto his NCAA taper. 1 Cielo, Cesar F 21 Una AU-SE 18.91Y 21.99 qOLY 2 Bousquet, Fred 26 Auburn Aquatics- 21.99 22.23 qOLY 3 Puninski, Alexe 23 Auburn Universit 22.81 22.43 qOLY 4 Malberg, Miko 22 Unattached-LA 22.71 22.95 qOLY 5 Voelker, Matt P 21 Ohio State Unive 23.00 22.97 qOLY 6 Bovell, George 24 Unattached 22.79 23.01 qOLY 7 Hall, Jr., Gary 33 Unattached 22.60 23.06 qOLY 8 Schneider, Josh 20 University of Ci 23.55 23.12 qOLY

Toyota M 1500 Free - PVanderkaay 14:52.56 M 200 Back - Peirsol 1:56.41 W 100 Free - Hoff 55.24 M 100 Free - Cielo 48.34, Phelps 48.41, Bousquet 49.38, Puninski 49.60 W 200 Fly - Sandeno 2:10.75, Hoff 2:11.03, Kalisz 2:11.27 M 200 Fly - Almeida 1:57.40, Madwed 1:58.17 W 400 free relay - Hoff 54.96 anchor Stanford W 100 Back - Coughlin 59.44 M 100 Back - Sun 55.13 M 200 Free - Klete Keller 1:46.56 W 100 Fly - Vollmer 58.59 W 400 IM - Leverenz 4:40.50

Will be interesting to see what Natalie swims at Oly Trials...... 53.94 100 Free 2:10.88 200 IM Tied her 100 Back WR of 59.44 Impressive swims with a couple more months to go before trials:banana: I'm guessing 50/100/200 free, 100 back, and 100 fly.

I'd be very surprised if Coughlin swims the 200 IM at Trials. I read something interesting on collegeswimming.com about Phelps. His 400 free was listed as a "declared false start." Usually this means the swimmer actually has to show up at the blocks. Presumably Phelps did not since he was sleeping when his heat went off. However, normally if a swimmer misses an event they are disqualified from their next event (in this case the 100 free for Phelps), however he swam it. Seems like you don't have to follow the normal rules if your name is Mike Phelps.