The 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships will begin
August 18th at the
William Woolett Jr. Aquatics Center in
Irvine, Calif. The Pan Pacific Championships represent the top international meet of 2010 for the U.S. National Team.
Being held on U.S. soil for the first time in over a decade, the five-day international meet will feature the world's top swimmers. Watch Ryan Lochte, Ariana Kukors, Michael Phelps and more as they face top swimmers from Australia, Japan and Canada.
Be there to cheer them on as Team USA fights to defend it's title as the number one swimming nation in the world.
Tickets for the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships are now on sale. You can purchase the tickets online at www.tix.com.
Okay, it is Mel Stewart doing the internet broadcast (Gold Medal Mel). I am getting tired of him cackling in triumph when a US swimmer is doing well (very often), then getting times and finishes wrong. Also, is it asking too much for him to look over the finals for pronunciation assistance before he wings it live (Korean, Chinese and Spanish names a special adventure). As well, we know that having only the two top Americans (and often Australians) in the 'A' finals leaves out potentially some very fast swimmers from those finals, but how is that worse than the Olympics where you only get to ENTER two swimmers? Anyhow, watching live on the internet has been awesome and the swimming has been terrific.
I think it's in meet management handbooks internationally that an event cannot be considered to be official if they don't slip both Final Countdown and Eye of the Tiger in the set lists at some point in the competition.
I had no idea it was Mel Stewart. This is especially weird since his observations about flyers have seemed particularly odd (e.g. calling Phelps a "flat" flyer... HUH?!? Dude rides a huge sine wave!!! (with admittedly slower turnover than other elite flyers)) Overall this makes no sense so I need to :bed:
Phelps doesn't final in the 400IM, DQ's in the 200IM, swims a leadoff last night fast enough to win the Indv 100 Free......
What a weird meet for him.
Why did Phelps DQ? I missed most of the finals, because we had an amazing lightening storm and I had to shut everything down. :badday:
