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From the man whose WR has been broken four times in the last two months.....
I like his attitude. He could never be a USMS swimmer. Too much whining here about everything.
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Also slightly interesting that over half the WRs are in 50 free (6) or 50 back (4).
Yes, the 50 times have come down and the 100's less so (but more people are doing fast 100's). My theory, for what it's worth......
Some improvement may be due to the suit but I believe sprinters are being trained differently (even more sprinter specific) these days compared to 4 years ago. That video of the coach Boomer interview discussed this a bit ("cats vs dogs").
Popov trained differently from every one else but now his type of training has been fine tuned and used more widely.
SCM records are being broken more because, not being Olympic events, they never got much attention in the past - and now there's money in it. Also there has not been much interest in SCM in the US with NCAA being SCY.
Ian.
Also slightly interesting that over half the WRs are in 50 free (6) or 50 back (4).
Yes, the 50 times have come down and the 100's less so (but more people are doing fast 100's). My theory, for what it's worth......
Some improvement may be due to the suit but I believe sprinters are being trained differently (even more sprinter specific) these days compared to 4 years ago. That video of the coach Boomer interview discussed this a bit ("cats vs dogs").
Popov trained differently from every one else but now his type of training has been fine tuned and used more widely.
SCM records are being broken more because, not being Olympic events, they never got much attention in the past - and now there's money in it. Also there has not been much interest in SCM in the US with NCAA being SCY.
Ian.
