Torres out of 100

From what I've seen and read and heard, she most definitely feels the aches and pains. Something about feeling like a tank ran over her one morning. Of course if you were using, that would be just the thing you would want to say to dispel rumors. Wasn't that the day she set a new AR? ("I'm old, I'm sore, I can't see. Oh, look, a new American record!")

Wow...John, I respect your opinion, but I gotta call you out on this one. I also noticed you scratched the 200 FR at 2006 Worlds and the 50 BA at SCY Nats in 2006. Of course you did swim other events in those meets... Selfish? Seems like a double standard to me... Mark Mark: John did intentionally scratch the 200 Free at both the 2006 Worlds an the 2008 Nationals in Austin. However, he never scratches sprint events and he was not paying attention to the proceedings at the 2006 Nationals in Coral Springs and missed his heat. I believe he was talking to Clay Britt and didn't realize he was at the wrong end of the pool and by the time he wanted to do something about this, it was to late and he was OUT of the 50 Back as Dan Hicks would say. I am not making this up and John explained what happened in the link below called "Losers who daydream and miss there heat." forums.usms.org/showthread.php

PLease just stop this exercise in Sado-Necro-Bestiality. I think everyone's views on this are clear and neither side is gonna change the other's viewpoint so....

John, See here: www.swimatlantamasters.com/page6.html. It looks like you had a secret admirer. Glider, If it's a photo of butterfly, it's probably the Evil One, not me. Fly, back and *** are only a means to freestyle. John Smith

Dara obliterates her PR and people want to believe it is real. I want to believe it's real, but I have to agree about the "obliterating" part. Here's some data. Dara last held the WR in the 50 free in 1984 with a 25.61(she was 17). At the 2000 Olympics she got a bronze with a 24.63. This past Sunday at Trials she went a 24.25.

Comparing her to Garrett Weber-Gale is not really a very good comparison... seeing as how she had already broken the WR in the 50 3 times before he was even born.....she is almost twice his age.

Torres' decision to drop the 100 does not leave the US without a representative in that event, as several folks are claiming. Coughlin is still swimming it, and she set the AR (4 tenths faster than Torres went last week) just two months ago. She just had an 'off' night at the finals. She has a better chance of making it to the podium in the 100 than Torres does.

Kirk - you are right. I wrote that several people 'claimed' we are without a suitable representative in the 100, and this was really my inference from the discussions - a statement that we might not have a medal contender, that we will be without the number one seed from the U.S., and the idea that her actions were 'selfish.' If folks posting here aren't concerned that the U.S. will miss its best shot at a medal in this event, then why is her decision an issue?

Based on best times of the year so far....Natalie has a better shot at a medal.

tjburk, With your philosophy on the games, there would only be 3-4 viable participants entered in each event. This... It doesn't matter that I scratch because I wasn't going to medal anyway and it'll make me too tired response is disappointing. She's the number one female sprinter in the country and she's not swimming the 100 free for the US because it'll get her too tired and risk the rest of her meet. The whole thing sounds strange to me. She could coast the prelims at the Games and still make the semis in this event no problem. John Smith