I haven't seen very many mentions of the fact that he didn't break the WR with reference to the 7 golds in 7 WRs shtick. Likely he'll get a 7th WR in the medley relay I guess.
I'm still guessing that number of events that he holds WRs in will be what he goes after next, and the 100 fly will be #1 on his list.
I haven't seen very many mentions of the fact that he didn't break the WR with reference to the 7 golds in 7 WRs shtick. Likely he'll get a 7th WR in the medley relay I guess.
I'm still guessing that number of events that he holds WRs in will be what he goes after next, and the 100 fly will be #1 on his list.
Not if I get it first! :rofl:
Well, he doesn't have records in the 50, 100, 400, and 1500 frees, the 100Fly, the backstrokes or breaststrokes.
He is insanely close in the backstrokes and 2 tenths form the 100 fl, half a second from the 100 free.
He's taking 6 months off starting tomorrow, but I would be willing to bet the only ones that are truly off-limits wold be the 50, 1500 and the breaststrokes. Out of 16 events, including relays, he reasonably could set records in 12 of them during his career.
Good Slo Mo of the finish
www.neogaf.com/.../showpost.php
That is excellent, it really shows how quick Phelps got around to touch it a fraction before Cavic.
This is the swim as Canadian watched it www.cbc.ca/.../
Alas, just like NBC, the CBC seems to know I'm not north of the border and won't let me watch it.
Edit: Though they are certainly happy to show me the Bell commercials...
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not insanely close on the 100bk anymore. peirsol's mark might be around for a little while. i'd actually be surprised if it didn't last at least til london.
As for the question of how much difference there has to be for it not to be considered a tie, the answer is that two finishes may be considered at tie with as much as 0.09999 seconds difference and may be considered not a tie if they differ by as little as 0.00001 seconds. All that matters is on which side of a 0.01 clock tick the two swimmers are. Consider 3 swimmers that touch at 1:00.995000001, 1:01.0049999999, and 1:01.005000001. The first two, separated by almost a full 0.01 would both be given a time of 1:01.00 and would have a tie. The third swimmer who trails the second swimmer by two billionths of a second would be given a time of 1:01.01 and would not tie the second swimmer.
Back in the 1960s, there was a timing device that would mark a spark on a rotating drum that would have shown relative differences finer than 0.01. I believe it was then that the swimming world realized the futility of timing to ever smaller fractions of a second. So the 0.01 second granularity was chosen. But, this results in the kind of unfairness I describe above.
Remember that 0.01 seconds is about 3/4 of an inch at a pace of 50sec/100m.
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If you think touch pads never lie, and you have access to the first heat of the men's 4x100 Medley Relay (1:02 into the Friday morning broadcast), review the finish of Australia and Japan. The clock claims that Australia won by 0.05, but the underwater video surely looks like Japan touched first, probably by about 0.02 seconds, and did not touch in a frame later than the Australians. If you look at the high def broadcast video, watch for the shadows of the fingers to meet the fingers which indicates whether there is a touch yet. (The SD video doesn't show the shadows as well). I'd love to see the high speed video from above to confirm whether the clock was right or wrong.
