2012 Olympics: Swimming

Dara Torres certainly wouldn't know anything about how to change her hormones. "Unfortunately," according to her, she can't take straight up HGH. Cry me a river. That is quite a lot of pseudo science that she calls "science based." But I might be persuaded to try a magnet for a restful sleep! Maybe there would be a placebo effect. :)

“That’s probably the biggest thing I’m on,” Torres said. “They took my levels, and they’re just low. I’m a middle-aged woman: They’re low. Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do about it.” Dara Torres certainly wouldn't know anything about how to change her hormones.

Also, let's play pseudoscience bingo! Ted Carrick, a chiropractic neurologist who worked with NHL star Sidney Crosby, videotaped Torres’s eye movements and determined that her eyes responded slowly to moving patterns. Her inability to focus efficiently, she was told, was essentially expending energy and making her tired. Carrick sent her home with exercises designed to eliminate gaps in her perception. Since then, three times a day, she follows a red dot as it moves in a pattern across a screen. Jeoff Drobot, the medical director of the Calgary Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, recommended that she use an oxygen concentrator (EWOT machine) to breathe pure oxygen while riding a stationary bike three times a week, hoping to flush out toxins. She subjects herself to electric shock therapy thrice weekly in the hope of stimulating her cells. She sleeps with a magnetic device under her mattress; it emits a frequency said to induce a more restful, healing sleep.

So in that article Magnussen is saying that he and the rest of his 400 free relay teammates are the underdogs against Phelps & the Americans??!

Magnusson: I want to race Phelps Fox Sports

Ervin www.swimnews.com/.../9450

Ervin www.swimnews.com/.../9450 Sounds like a very cool and interesting guy.

Also, let's play pseudoscience bingo! Jazz Hands, how can you say that. Didn't you see her quote? “It’s all very, very science-oriented,” Torres said.

“It’s all very, very science-oriented,” Torres said. I would have been doubtful too, but she threw that 2nd "very" in there and that clinched it for me. To be fair, the line between superstition (excuse me, I mean "anecdotal evidence") and science is pretty blurry in swimming and other sports with MANY coaches/athletes. It is just a little more obvious in this case. And I wouldn't discount the placebo effect here.

Magnusson: I want to race Phelps Fox Sports If Phelps just focused on the 100 free,maybe he could be close to Magnusson. If Magnusson wants to really have a race with Phelps he should swim the 200.He is saying"I really want to race Phelps in my best event in an off event for him." It is almost as bad as if Kitajima said"I sure hope Phelps swims the 200 BR so I can race him. Also, the Aussies are clearly the favorite in the 4X100 FR.