2012 Olympics: Swimming

Who swam? What were the splits? Shocked Australia wasn't in the mix

www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../31447.asp Team USA's Nathan Adrian (47.89), Michael Phelps (47.15) and Cullen Jones (47.60) delivered Ryan Lochte a lead on the anchor, with a 2:22.64 to 2:23.19 advantage, but Locthe's 47.74 was a full second behind Agnel's anchor, leaving the U.S. with a silver medal time of 3:10.38. Grevers was faster than that in the morning, compared to Lochte's, um, has Ryan Lochte ever done a 100 freestyle before?

I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one with feed problems. I first thought it was my firefox until I saw on twitter it was everyone. ElaineK - your boy Cullen is swimming today!

It was a reasonable call, given that Lochte (defending world champion in the 200 free that he is) was more rested than Grevers and swam so well yesterday. You mean in the 400 IM? Good point. That is indeed a sports event. Maybe LeBron should have anchored, though?

I called this weeks ago, that someone was going to have a great prelim swim and we would be stuck between kicking someone off the relay or not putting the fastest 4 out there. I thought Lochte would be faster because I believed everything about him not being close to fully tapered at trials and that he was going put on a performance for the ages like he said he was going to do. This is another reason why the trials need to be earlier. If everyone was fully tapered and had to earn their relay spot, the outcome of this race could have been different because the coaches would have had a lot better idea of who the best 4 were.

2012 Olympic: Swimming 2012 Olympic Swimming begins on Sat July 28th in London with: Prelims at 10 am 5:00 am Eastern 4:00 am Central 3:00 am Mountain 2:00 am Pacific Heat Sheets Day 1 Sat Jul 28 Men's 400m Individual Medley Women's 100m Butterfly Men's 400m Freestyle Women's 400m Individual Medley Men's 100m Breaststroke Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 2 Sun Jul 29 Women's 100m Backstroke Men's 200m Freestyle Women's 100m Breaststroke Men's 100m Backstroke Women's 400m Freestyle Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 3 Mon Jul 30 Women's 200m Freestyle Men's 200m Butterfly Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 4 Tue Jul 31 Men's 100m Freestyle Women's 200m Butterfly Men's 200m Breaststroke Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 Wed Aug 01 Women's 100m Freestyle Men's 200m Backstroke Women's 200m Breaststroke Men's 200m Individual Medley Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 Thu Aug 02 Men's 50m Freestyle Women's 800m Freestyle Men's 100m Butterfly Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 Fri Aug 03 Women's 50m Freestyle Men's 1500m Freestyle Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 Sat Aug 04 Olympic Pool Swimming ends Thu Aug 09th Womens' 10k Fri Aug 10th Men's 10k 2012 Olympics website 2012 Olympic Swimming Schedule & Results Swimming Schedule and Ticket Info Tickets Aquatics Centre NBC OLYMPICS NBC OLYMPICS SWIMMING Wonder who will be wearing what suit? Legally approved suits NEWS Swimming World's 2012 Olympic Swimming Sports Illustrated 2012 Olympics SI 2012 Olympic Swimming ESPN 2012 USA Olympic Trials USMS forum site

I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one with feed problems. I first thought it was my firefox until I saw on twitter it was everyone. ElaineK - your boy Cullen is swimming today! :cheerleader: I can't wait to watch it; I'll catch it on TV. At this point, I better stay off this thread in case there are any spoilers! :bolt:

Dana Vollmer!!!:banana:

But Lochte does so much strength training -- he flips tires, for gosh sakes! -- I just assumed he was a world-class sprinter. That's all it takes, right? ...? You think Ryan Lochte is strong?

If Ryan couldn't bring his 400 IM home faster than a 16 year old girl, why would we want him anchoring our relay?