Not to mention the Beijing goggle malfunction. He was visibly disappointed last summer despite the record.
Guess his freestyle mojo must have been a bit off the other day, if he can still drop time wearing a stinky old pair of legskins.
It is all relative, though. He wore the same suits at Beijing: body for the free, legs for the fly. He increased 0.3 sec in the free and dropped 0.5 in the fly. But, as you say, he expected to go faster in the fly at Beijing; his goggles undoubtedly contributed to that.
As someone else mentioned, you always look good when you're out in front. At Rome he just didn't have anybody step up in the 200 fly like in the 200 free. If somebody in a Jaked or Arena had gone a 1:50 we would probably all be saying how Phelps must have taken a bong hit just before his race or something.
Not to mention the Beijing goggle malfunction. He was visibly disappointed last summer despite the record.
Guess his freestyle mojo must have been a bit off the other day, if he can still drop time wearing a stinky old pair of legskins.
It is all relative, though. He wore the same suits at Beijing: body for the free, legs for the fly. He increased 0.3 sec in the free and dropped 0.5 in the fly. But, as you say, he expected to go faster in the fly at Beijing; his goggles undoubtedly contributed to that.
As someone else mentioned, you always look good when you're out in front. At Rome he just didn't have anybody step up in the 200 fly like in the 200 free. If somebody in a Jaked or Arena had gone a 1:50 we would probably all be saying how Phelps must have taken a bong hit just before his race or something.
