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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Of course they have to register at a certain level of pressure. Otherwise waves would trigger the pads. I see no way they could overturn the results from the timing system. Video? No way.....
Video is how it's backed up. You'll notice there's not timer. They take a shot every 1/100 of a second I believe.
Will Phelps have to break WR to beat Cavic? Does Phelps have some rest this morning (west Coast) in order to beat this Serb-American?
I think Phelps had no races between his 100 fly semis and the 100 fly finals tonight. So he will be as rested as he can be. If he can go 50.9 20 minutes after a WR 200 IM swim, can't he go 49.9 rested?
Correct, he has nothing until Finals tonight.....and then nothing else but the relay after that.......he will make a statement tonight....watch.....
49.9?
Agree. Phelps will be rested, and should go a bit faster.
Odds are also that Cavic had a great swim, and might not repeat that performance.
It'll be a good horse race to the flags.
And Phelps never seems to run out of gas on the last 20 meters.
If anything he gets faster towards the latter part of the 100.
That's the hardest I have ever seen Phelps breathe (after the 100 fly semi). He really looked tired but I am sure it was only because barely 40 mins earlier he broke the world record for the 200 IM.
He is going to go out harder in the final and come back faster than any of the other competitors will be able to. My money is still on him.
(shakes head)
There are sore losers, and there are sore losers.
I don't know...every time I saw the replay in slow motion, especially when they froze the frame at the touch, I could not believe that Cavic wasn't the winner.
I do believe the touchpad, but this is the first time I can remember where my eyes disagreed with the pad. If that had been Phelps in lane 4 than I think there would be a lot of outraged posters on this forum, so I can understand why the Serbians objected.
I thought the shot of Phelps' mother sinking into her chair after the race was absolutely priceless...the guy in front of her seemed struck dumb.
wow, thanks for posting the link. i've met mike bottom and didn't think it sounded like him. he seems like a class act.
nice words from cavic too. what a nailbiter.:D
