It was fun to watch Susan von der Lippe swim the 100 fly in prelims. She moved up in the field roughly 30 places and finished 105 out of 137 to the best of my memory. I talked to her afterwards (she was hanging out at the motel pool with her kids and husband) and she thought it might have been close to her lifetime best (= her qualifying time) since she didn't swim much fly as a kid. Let's see what she can do today in the 100 ***.
Great to see world records in the first two final events. With all the records falling this year, I was not surprised to see two under the WR in the men's 400 IM - I'm betting this will happen more than once this year.
For me, the most exciting race was the 400 free. Great swims by the top four swimmers!
Also nice to see some swimmers move way up in the fields with some big time drops. Over 12,000 in the audience for both the prelims and finals yesterday. It took a while for the crowd to figure out how to cheer for people swimming breaststroke...
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We were hanging out with Susan and her kids at the motel pool after her 100 breaststroke swim yesterday. She is just glad to be here and happy that her events are over so she can just schmooze with the other athletes.
Her kids were practicing water ballet in the pool and had to show us a few moves they were working on. Would have stayed longer but had to get the beer in the fridge.....
The two women's backstroke WRs in the prelims were remarkable to watch. We met Robert Margalis' parents at the entrance and they reported that Robert had said that the crowd noise was unbelievable. So much noise that the sound was clearly audible to swimmers with their heads in the water. It certainly sent chills up and down my spine in the stands. Great to see so much positive for our sport.
Meanwhile, every pool in the area is full of Trials attendees looking for a place to work out. We trained at the Council Bluffs downtown Y yesterday and it was a complete zoo. Some of the locals were really bent out of shape but most welcomed us.
We were hanging out with Susan and her kids at the motel pool after her 100 breaststroke swim yesterday. She is just glad to be here and happy that her events are over so she can just schmooze with the other athletes.
Her kids were practicing water ballet in the pool and had to show us a few moves they were working on. Would have stayed longer but had to get the beer in the fridge.....
The two women's backstroke WRs in the prelims were remarkable to watch. We met Robert Margalis' parents at the entrance and they reported that Robert had said that the crowd noise was unbelievable. So much noise that the sound was clearly audible to swimmers with their heads in the water. It certainly sent chills up and down my spine in the stands. Great to see so much positive for our sport.
Meanwhile, every pool in the area is full of Trials attendees looking for a place to work out. We trained at the Council Bluffs downtown Y yesterday and it was a complete zoo. Some of the locals were really bent out of shape but most welcomed us.
