VIDEO: Men's 100m Butterfly - Heat 9
1 Milorad CAVIC SRB 50.76 OR
2 Michael PHELPS USA 50.87
3 Andrii SERDINOV 7 UKR 51.10
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I'm with everyone else thinking that Phelps has gotten faster in the 100's but after looking at a bunch of stats, I don't know now.
Everyone says that since phelps dropped from 47.92 to a 47.51, he should drop at least that much in the 100 fly, right? The 47.92 was from trials in a 100 free prelim. Phelps did not compete in the seim-final or final. I'm pretty sure that if he did swim in the final that he would have droped more time. Plus when you are swimming next to eamon sullivan and leaveux, in a relay that you have to win, it makes it a little easier to go fast. So this 100 free drop applied to what his 100 fly time is going to be is less reliable than what it seems to be.
Another thing that people are saying is that phelps is just saving up for the big one. In the semifinals at trails, phelps went a 51.10 after the 200 IM finals that same night. The next day he came back "rested" and went a 50.89. Thats only a .21 drop. And he was definatly going balls out in that race. If history repeats its self, he goes a 50.76, the same time that Cavic has gone this week, OMG! This is going to be one hell of a race. But who knows these are just stats, you can throw this out the window as soon as they step up on the block. I'm not making any claims here but looking at this, I have no idea whats going to happen.
O, and another thing, Phelps did not go a top time when he beat Ian Crocker in Athens.
I'm with everyone else thinking that Phelps has gotten faster in the 100's but after looking at a bunch of stats, I don't know now.
Everyone says that since phelps dropped from 47.92 to a 47.51, he should drop at least that much in the 100 fly, right? The 47.92 was from trials in a 100 free prelim. Phelps did not compete in the seim-final or final. I'm pretty sure that if he did swim in the final that he would have droped more time. Plus when you are swimming next to eamon sullivan and leaveux, in a relay that you have to win, it makes it a little easier to go fast. So this 100 free drop applied to what his 100 fly time is going to be is less reliable than what it seems to be.
Another thing that people are saying is that phelps is just saving up for the big one. In the semifinals at trails, phelps went a 51.10 after the 200 IM finals that same night. The next day he came back "rested" and went a 50.89. Thats only a .21 drop. And he was definatly going balls out in that race. If history repeats its self, he goes a 50.76, the same time that Cavic has gone this week, OMG! This is going to be one hell of a race. But who knows these are just stats, you can throw this out the window as soon as they step up on the block. I'm not making any claims here but looking at this, I have no idea whats going to happen.
O, and another thing, Phelps did not go a top time when he beat Ian Crocker in Athens.
