While perusing the heat sheets for next week's Nationals, I saw a familiar name: Claudia Poll, an Olympic gold-medalist from Costa Rica. I'm excited to see her swim.
I got to wondering... how many other Olympians are entered in the meet? Not having grown up swimming I am sure that there are a lot of names I didn't catch. Please add to my list! The meet roster can be found here.
The ones I have found so far are:
Claudia Poll
Rowdy Gaines
Chris Stevenson
Jim Montgomery
worlds are full of ex-olympians. one of my breasstroke heats in 2000 was all ex-communist country swimmers and then me. i looked like a little kid up on the blocks next to them.
i have learned one lesson going to worlds. when it is in europe best to avoid breaststroke - first stroke they learn in lessons, whereas we learn freestyle . (this was told to me by the competitors)
200 fly and long free events are the ones to pick lol.
never gonna happen
worlds are full of ex-olympians. one of my breasstroke heats in 2000 was all ex-communist country swimmers and then me. i looked like a little kid up on the blocks next to them.
i have learned one lesson going to worlds. when it is in europe best to avoid breaststroke - first stroke they learn in lessons, whereas we learn freestyle . (this was told to me by the competitors)
200 fly and long free events are the ones to pick lol.
never gonna happen
