Grevers swam the best race of his life. If people are disappointed, it shouldn't be at him.
Agreed. It appears he had a couple swims of his life in the 100 back. His seed time was (I think) 54-low, placing him sixth coming into the trials. His time in the finals was 53-low. (I'm at work now or I'd take a bit more time and look the exact times up.)
Skip
Wasn't Nathan on the Real World? She married some guy from the Real World! Well, at least, Seattle wasn't Nasty like Austin and Las Vegas.
nathan from the real world was from virginia. nathan jendrick is from washington.
Here our my picks for tonights finals.
Women's 200 Free Final - Hoff and Allison Schmitt. The next four for the Relay is a toss up and pick him and any four of these six swimmers have an equal shot to make it.
Men's 200 Fly Final - Phelps and Davis Tarwater. I liked the way Tarwater looked yesterday in going 1:54.72 and I give the edge to him over the others.
Women's 200 IM Final - Its hard to pick against Katie Hoff and I am not going to do that the way she is swimming. She can handle two Finals because she did so last night swimming both events in the SF. I am picking Natlie Coughlin based on that 2:09.77 that was swam a month ago. This should be a great race between these two and the whole field. Maybe there will be kind of an upset here like the 2006 Pan Pac's when Whitney Myers suprised everyone and beat Hoff and went 2:10.11 but I just don't see it because these two swimmers are swimming very well now and in the last month.
Maybe there will be kind of an upset here like the 2006 Pan Pac's when Whitney Myers suprised everyone and beat Hoff and went 2:10.11 but I just don't see it because these two swimmers are swimming very well now and in the last month.
I have to agree, Skip. As much as I'm rooting for the local girl, Ariana Kukors, I don't see her knocking down either Coughlin or Hoff. Kukors swam a lifetime best last night with a 2:10.8 and that's still a second slower than what Coughlin did last month with no one within probably five seconds of her.
I think the race between Coughlin and Hoff will be very close.
yeah it was a false start. Ian crcoker chokes over 50% of the time. I think phelps should be on the final meadly relay in beijing even if ian wins the 100 fly.
Seriously? By my count he's never choked. When has he truly choked? Let's see Olympics - I'm sure you'd bring up the 4 x 100 FR Relay - the guy had the flu - fever, etc. I don't think being sick counts as choking. He posted a monsertous time in the medley relay and just got out touched in the 100 fly.
Worlds 07 again good time got out touched by Phelps who has some of the best finishes in the world. The prelims of the medley - 99.9% of the time it's the swimmer in the water that you should/can default the DQ to - I don't think that's choking.
Nationals 07 there was a clear camera flash for that false start ... he was going off of the flash instead of the beep as he was probably trained to do.
Bottom line - get the nerves and DQ out in free and save the good stuff for fly.
I was more specifically referring to the false starts and the relay DQ. Think you knew that, btw.
I can see how those incidents could result in Crocker having a bit of a complex. Plus, getting repeatedly out touched at big meets when you're the WR holder seems a bit odd.
