8? Eight?
Why not nine? C'mon, Ryan, give us a show!!!
edit: oh, this is for Dubai, I thought we were talking about London. There I go again, commenting on an article without properly reading it first... :)
Lochte 2012 speculation
200/400 IM- really good odds winning
100 bk -lots of competition to make the team
200 bk -much better chance than the 100 bk, good odds winning
100 fr -outside chance to make team/medal
200 fr -good medal potential
4 x 200 relay -good chance medal/winning
4 x 100 fr relay -good chance to make the relay, potentially tough to win
4 x 100 mr -obviously depends on the 100 bk
The American opened his bid for eight gold medals at the short-course swimming world championships Wednesday with a dominant win in the 200-meter freestyle.
Lochte didn't celebrate after touching in a championship-record 1 minute, 41.08 seconds, nearly a full body-length ahead of Danila Izotov of Russia.
"I just wanted to do a good time. Usually the first race is my worst, so I'm glad to get that one out of the way," Lochte told the crowd over the arena's public address system after exiting the pool.
www.centredaily.com/.../lochte-gets-his-1st-gold-at-short.html
www.centredaily.com/.../lochte-gets-his-1st-gold-at-short.html
I love when people win a race and act like they've done it before and it was expected. It show s good sportsmanship! Unlike the linebacker who makes a tackle and acts like he just won a gold medal at Worlds!
I love when people win a race and act like they've done it before and it was expected. It show s good sportsmanship! Unlike the linebacker who makes a tackle and acts like he just won a gold medal at Worlds!
White Americans are conservative (non-political sense) and modest. It is neither right nor wrong to be that way, but to suggest that someone lacks sportsmanship because they don't meet your cultural expectation is, well, poor form on your part. My inlaws (Korean) slurp their soup. It's not rude, it's just how they do it.
More importantly, the quest for 8 is over...
8? Eight?
Why not nine? C'mon, Ryan, give us a show!!!
edit: oh, this is for Dubai, I thought we were talking about London. There I go again, commenting on an article without properly reading it first... :)
It got me thinking: what would be the most likley 9 medal combination?
50/100/200 100 fly 100 back 200 IM (3 relays)?
Could phelps have won the 400 free *if* he didn't do the 400IM? I think so.
I disagree. We aren't talking cultural differences between countries. We are talking in the USA. It is poor sportsmanship to gloat on every play in the US. That is why most sports enforce penalties for excessive and unneeded celebrations.
Nonsense. The USA does not have one culture. There are those who want to think that, they are the same that think there is only one way to speak English. Not coincidentally these people believe the right way to act and the right way to speak happen to be the way that their culture does it.
It is also silly to say that, because there are celebration penalties, that our culture does not like it. I hardly think you can point to sports as the model of cultural awareness. When did women get an NCAA swimming championship? 1981?
I guess I should try and steer this back on track:
The US finished 2nd in the 4x200 too. Interesting, the Russian team swam their relay fastest to slowest. I've never seen that before.
