2012 Olympics: Swimming

I was actually interested to note that there are no teens at all on the men's team, where no one is under the age of 21. Also, the average age of the men's team is closer to 30 than to 20. Three men (Hansen, Ervin, Lezak) are in their thirties. There are a ton who are 28 years old (Lochte, Shanteau, Jones, Vanderkaay, Tarwater, etc...). Compare to Beijing, where there were several who were 20 years old, one was 19 (Adrian) and most of the rest were under the age of 25.This swimswam article is a good commentary on the age topic -- swimswam.com/.../. I'm 100% in synch with Geek on the value of pros. I've not seen the MAC team in action with kids, but I saw them in action in Greensboro and they sure inspired the heck out of a number of us Masters Swimmers.

I was actually interested to note that there are no teens at all on the men's team, where no one is under the age of 21. Also, the average age of the men's team is closer to 30 than to 20. Three men (Hansen, Ervin, Lezak) are in their thirties. There are a ton who are 28 years old (Lochte, Shanteau, Jones, Vanderkaay, Tarwater, etc...). Compare to Beijing, where there were several who were 20 years old, one was 19 (Adrian) and most of the rest were under the age of 25.This swimswam article is a good commentary on the age topic -- swimswam.com/.../. I'm 100% in synch with Geek on the value of pros. I've not seen the MAC team in action with kids, but I saw them in action in Greensboro and they sure inspired the heck out of a number of us Masters Swimmers.