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Janet Evans comeback?

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Swimnetwork seems to think it's for real. I expected to read that she was working out with the FAST crew at her old pool but she has allegedly reunited with Schubert. www.swimnetwork.com/.../Rumors-of-a-Queens-Comeback.aspx
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  • Lefty: I agree that its admirable and no matter what happens it will be big boost to USMS to have Janet be a USMS member and swim in our meets. There was a drop off between 92 and 96 but there was a bigger drop off from 88/89 to 92 from the WR times that were swam in the 400 Free and 800 Free. Her winning time in the Olympics in 1988 was 4:03.85 compared to the time of 4:07.37 in 1992 for silver. Her 8:17.12 in 1988 and 8:16.22 in 1989 were faster than her winning time 8:25.52 in 1992. In 1996 she swam a 8:38.91 for a sixth place but I don't believe that year she went under an 8:30 and her time at OT was 8:33.60 and in the 400 Free she was 9th missing the finals by two seconds at 4:13.60 when at the Olympic Trials she went for 4:10 and would have easily qualified for the final with that time. I remember a protest was filed by USA to FINA because Michelle Smith entered a qualifying time past the FINA deadline for submitting a time for this event at the 1996 Olympics and FINA upheld the time and denied the protest otherwise she would have been able to swim the 400 Free final.
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  • Lefty: I agree that its admirable and no matter what happens it will be big boost to USMS to have Janet be a USMS member and swim in our meets. There was a drop off between 92 and 96 but there was a bigger drop off from 88/89 to 92 from the WR times that were swam in the 400 Free and 800 Free. Her winning time in the Olympics in 1988 was 4:03.85 compared to the time of 4:07.37 in 1992 for silver. Her 8:17.12 in 1988 and 8:16.22 in 1989 were faster than her winning time 8:25.52 in 1992. In 1996 she swam a 8:38.91 for a sixth place but I don't believe that year she went under an 8:30 and her time at OT was 8:33.60 and in the 400 Free she was 9th missing the finals by two seconds at 4:13.60 when at the Olympic Trials she went for 4:10 and would have easily qualified for the final with that time. I remember a protest was filed by USA to FINA because Michelle Smith entered a qualifying time past the FINA deadline for submitting a time for this event at the 1996 Olympics and FINA upheld the time and denied the protest otherwise she would have been able to swim the 400 Free final.
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