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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Great 100 free races. Nice to see Nick Brunelli place so well. Should be an interesting final tonight.
Question of the day: where is the back-up timing system? There are no timers with watches and no back-up buttons on the touch pads.
Answer: there are four cameras mounted on a truss above the start/finish line. They have a frame rate of 100 frames/second so that they can stop action at 0.01 second. They are used as timing backup and to resolve false start and two-handed touch issues.
Very cool.
What was the answer on Crocker's DQ? Did he false start? I didn't get to watch prelims.
Great 100 free races. Nice to see Nick Brunelli place so well. Should be an interesting final tonight.
Question of the day: where is the back-up timing system? There are no timers with watches and no back-up buttons on the touch pads.
Answer: there are four cameras mounted on a truss above the start/finish line. They have a frame rate of 100 frames/second so that they can stop action at 0.01 second. They are used as timing backup and to resolve false start and two-handed touch issues.
Very cool.
What was the answer on Crocker's DQ? Did he false start? I didn't get to watch prelims.
