He raced the fastest men in the world and he blew them all away. I suppose you could do better?
Yes, this is exactly what I was saying. I was saying that becasue he dropped 4 seconds from Beijing and even commented himself that the suits make him faster and actually was quoted that when the new rules come into play that he hopes he can keep this up I was actually saying I could do better. Thank you for clarifying my post.
Mal hoffen das es jetzt wieder bergauf geht!
Is was long time since Michael Gross, Kristin Otto. I guess, they worked out their way and brought on top their best swimmer. We wait for women 100 free.
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.
I've been reading up on it, and I'm not huge on swimming, and I learned that Peter actually set the world short course record without a polytech suit. His Arena suit was apparently the old Revolution. Considering that was last November. I think it's safe to say that he probably had more in the tank at the Olympics...
Also apparently he broke the European record with 1.44.71 and that was also without a polytech suit... So his huge jump in seconds is only as shocking as it is because he didn't have the LZR last year....
Personally I think the suits need to be banned. It shouldn't be about who has the fastest suit. But I think it's really hypocritical for anyone who was wearing the LZR last year to be screaming unfairness now.
So what does he do? Whine about those who do wear the Jaked , and say he won't compete until they are banned.
To be fair it was Bowman who whined and said Phelps won't be swimming until the suits are banned. Now, maybe they're playing a little "good cop, bad cop" here, but still we probably shouldn't put words into Phelps' mouth. Phelps said yesterday that he got beat "by a swimmer" when asked if he was beaten by a person or a suit. He also said "Paul swam a great race."
German swimmer, I remember when we were suspect of all German swimmers using steroids. Did you notice his muscle structure.
This is a complete 180 from your previous statements on this topic.
