The 2012 United States Olympic Trials - Swimming
will once again be held at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
The 2008 Trials set a new standard for swimming excitement and 2012 promises to bring even more poolside thrills to America's Heartland.
Check back often for updates as we draw closer to naming the team that will represent the United States in the pool at the London Olympic Games.
When: Mon June 25th - Mon July 2nd 2012
DAYS Till
Where: Qwest Center Omaha
455 North 10th Street Omaha, NE 68102
PSYCH Sheet
RESULTS
One cool thing is the website has USA Olympic Swimming Trials Results from 1920 - 2008
CUTS
APPROVED TECH SUITS
Link to 2012 Olympic Swimming
but the coolest thing is our 2012 LCM Nats is in the same pool starting Thu July 5th, 2012
2012 USMS Summer LCM Nationals
Qwest Center, Omaha, NE
Thu July 5 - Sun 8, 2012
Long Course Meters
Qualifying Times will be available in early 2012
2012 Olympics USMS Forum Site
Michael Phelps will have a hard time walking away from the pool
Interesting article, thx for posting. Two parts caught my eye. One is, IMO, a gross overstatement:
The sport is impossibly grueling – just one warm-up, Olympic race and warm-down costs a swimmer a marathon's worth of calories
I do think swimmers TRAIN harder than marathoners, but there is no need to oversell it with a statement like this.
Then I smiled at the part where Phelps seems to have misplaced one of his gold medals. The man has so many, he can't keep track of all of them...!
I do think swimmers TRAIN harder than marathoners, but there is no need to oversell it with a statement like this.
1. Yeah, that sentence makes no sense from a thermodynamic perspective.
2. Swimmers, sprinters even, really do train with as much volume as long-distance runners. This is dumb.
I do think swimmers TRAIN harder than marathoners, but there is no need to oversell it with a statement like this.
Water is much more forgiving than pavement but my distance running friends do put in a ton of training time as well, probably as much as almost all of my swim friends.
I watched Lochte do a full workout between sessions on Sunday and then come back and rip a great 200 IM last night. So, call it dumb or whatever, but the best in the world don't really have to justify their training routines.
As someone who has done tri's & an Ironman along with Masters swimming for 27 years ---- I question that swimmers use as a different set of training hours than marathoners! As swimmers we get to do sets , marathoners need to put in VERY long set of miles. This is not put down either of the sports, they are VERY different!!:worms:
But he can do all those things without giving up another shot at the Olympics. He can swim a 50-meter freestyle in Rio – something his mother, Debbie, playfully suggested on 60 Minutes – and continue to grow his foundation and the sport of swimming.
This is kind of silly. Making the 50 free is no cakewalk. If he comes back for Rio it might as well be for the 2 fly.
