14.34.56 1500 free, Grant Hackett, in Japan, 2001!
14.26.62 1650 free, Chris Thompson, in the US of A, 2001!
I know who Hackett is, Thompson is only vaguely familiar. Fact is, their records are nearly a decade old. Does anyone else find this as impressive and striking as I do? Did Hackett set such an out-of-reach record that more swimmers are cowed rather than motivated to break it? Or have male swimmers just collectively lost a lot of interest in the mile? All of the other men's records are newborns. In fact, Phelps's 400 IM from Beijing is the second-oldest, and it's still not even two years old (it survived the climax of the suits, though, so that's impressive).
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I agree with this. He's an incredible athlete, with amazing technique.
The rubber suits at the last Games may have been one of the main factors in how and why the others were coming close to his times.
And that's not going to happen any time soon.
YouTube- Grant Hackett Front Crawl Technique
I agree with this. He's an incredible athlete, with amazing technique.
The rubber suits at the last Games may have been one of the main factors in how and why the others were coming close to his times.
And that's not going to happen any time soon.
YouTube- Grant Hackett Front Crawl Technique
