This is great to watch on TV .
I wish that they showed more than two minutes of the Open Water. :bitching:. Who the heck cares about Water polo and Diving? Open Water is where the action is. I really need to find more open water races like that. I really hate the running beginning and endings in alot of the ocean swims that I have.
I take a bit of offense to that statement, I care about water polo a lot!
Diving...not so much. :banana:
Sorry to take it out on water polo but I just felt like I saw 95% water polo and .2% of open water swimming. All I have to say that there are some big girls in water polo. Don't mess with those ladies!!!!
Sorry to take it out on water polo but I just felt like I saw 95% water polo and .2% of open water swimming. All I have to say that there are some big girls in water polo. Don't mess with those ladies!!!!
Yea I have a lot of Female friends that are current and ex polo players and I will not confront them...They scare me sometimes :cane:
Crippen is awarded the bronze after the protest was overturned on appeal:
www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml
As for coverage, I actually like watching water polo, but don't see why Universal can't put up a full video of at least the 5Ks when they're also archiving entire water polo matches.
:applaud::applaud::applaud::applaud::applaud:. I am happy for him. I saw that part of the race. He had to extra work to get on the other side of the lane line so the Italian guy had more of a challenge to beat him.
Universal sports could have put up a full video on the website at least. You know that they probably videotape the whole race in case some dramatic happens.
But, from what I heard, Open Water swimmers don't peak until they are 29 so that is a good sign for Andrew Gemmel to get the silver at the 10K and only 18 years old. Crippen trains with Germantown Academy so doing a *** Shoulberg practice is very good preparation for open water swimming without doing any real open water training. The attitude has really changed about open water swimming in our area. When I was coming up, I never knew to do open water events or heard about them. Now, there are alot of kids are doing these events. The Middle Atlantic never had a Open Water Championship or clubs hosting open water events.
Crippen is awarded the bronze after the protest was overturned on appeal:
www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml
As for coverage, I actually like watching water polo, but don't see why Universal can't put up a full video of at least the 5Ks when they're also archiving entire water polo matches.
I wish that they showed more than two minutes of the Open Water. :bitching:. Who the heck cares about Water polo and Diving?
I take a bit of offense to that statement, I care about water polo a lot!
Diving...not so much. :banana:
Stephanie Rice was so nice after the 200 IM. Nice job Kukors. But, I really don't think that Coventry and Rice would pull that time off right now. Finally, a girl who can challenge Rice and Coventry. They slaughtered Coughlin and Hoff at Beijing.
I am glad that the 400 free WR is broken. What happened to Vanderkay? I was waiting for him to step it up and he just never did. Then again, I guess that he is not a 100% after his flu he got befroe WCT.
Geesh, a woman under 4:00 in the 400 free.:bow:. That was an amazing swim by Pellegrini.
bernard had fastest relay split 46.46 althought they didn;t win. maybe he should have anchored. adrian was spectacular, grevers had a great 3rd leg and lochte had a great 2nd. phelps didn';t look as sharp as his teammates. hmmmmmmmmmmm
And Fred Bosquet choked again. He was one of the best NCAA big meet swimmers ever, but seems to consistently fail to live up to potential at LC Worlds and Olympics.
Kukors and USA swimming need to chip in and buy Elizabeth Pelton a crate of turtle wax or something. If she hadn't picked the backstroke over the 200 IM, Kukors wouldn't have even swam the event she got a WR in.
Maybe set up a nice little trust fund or something so Pelton can get it when she turns pro. That was some good foreshadowing on Pelton's part. I am just glad that one of our girls is finally able to "throw down" with Rice and Coventry. Too bad, Kukors is not the 400 IM. She probably was just off her game at Nats. She got 4th in the 400 IM there. It is very inspiring to see a swim like Kukors.
