2012 Olympic Trials USA Swimming

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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 Trials Day 3 starts at 10 central Today is a light prelims, only 3 events and there will be a time trial Psych Sheet Prelims: Heat SHEET Timeline Day 3 Results LIVE RESULTS PSYCH Sheet Women's 200m FR Men's 200m FL Women's 200m IM Finals & Semis: Women's 200m Free - Semifinal Men's 200m Free - Final Women's 100m Back - Final Men's 100m Back - Final Women's 100m *** - Final Men's 200m Fly - Semifinal Women's 200m IM -- Semifinal RESULTS Day 3 Results DAY 2 Results Day 1 Results Swim Swam Olympic Trials Coverage WATCH PRELIMS WEBCAST All but the fastest heats of preliminaries will be webcast live June 25 - July 1 beginning at 10 a.m. CT. The fastest 2-4 heats of preliminaries will be broadcast on tape delay by NBC Sports. NBC Swimming Sign up for NBS Alerts Watch on TV 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CST) Prelims NBCSN 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (CST) Finals (LIVE) NBC NBCOlympics.com Swimming Streaming Schedule LIVE EXTRA NEWS on USASwimming.org Swimming Tweets Olympic Trials Swimming Google News CUTS APPROVED TECH SUITS 2012 United States Olympic Trials - Swimming USA Olympic Swimming Trials Results from 1920 - 2008 2012 Olympics USMS Forum What else should we include on this page?

Right now Natalie is considered by many, including myself to be the greatest 100 Backstroke specialist in swimming history.I think calling Natalie a 100 back specialist fails to account for her other accomplishments. Olympic medals in the 100 Free, 200 IM and 4X200 Relay demonstrate a bit of versatility. And Natalie is no slouch in the 100 Fly or in SCM or SCY events. Natalie’s 11 Olympic medals is the most of any female swimmer with 5 of those medals for swimming other than backstroke. Note in my humble opinion, I would suggest David Theile was a greater 100 Back specialist, if you compare his 100 back accomplishments (2 Olympic gold) to his other swimming accomplishments.

It appears to me that NBC will time out on the telecast tonight after the 100 *** final and I don't they will show either on the internet or TV the Men's 200 Fly semis or the Women's 200 IM semis. The only semi we get tonight is the Women's 200 Free and the four finals. Does anyone know if they can access events not shown from from 8:00 to 9:00 everyday. On Monday there was no semi in the Men's 100 ***, and last night no semis for the 100 Back. Are these events anywhere that you can view?

Nice analysis skip it was a surprise that PVK missed the 200 fr the mens 2 fr is going to be very exciting, as is the womens 2 free. gotta think schmitt & franklin place 1 2 or 2 1 Vollmer 3rd Donahue was a surprise Hersey's 58.1 bodes well for her 2 FL Larson is def one to watch very happy that Hansen & shanteau 1 2 FYI Kitajima with an "A" at the end. Though some might call him Kick-a-jima for his gold medal stealing dolphin kicks in 2004. (Could swimming benefit from underwater judging?) Ledecky is a hot one on the scene. I mentioned her here when she broke 13/14 records in the 500 & 1000 & Wolf mentioned her at USMS in 2010 with Katie Ledecky dropped a 17:06 1650 at PVS Senior Champs yesterday. In Feb 2012 I also mentioned her in this thread The slope of her improvement is remarkable. She might be a year or 2 away from domination. I hoped Janet Evans would go faster, wasn't she 4:17 unrested? Not likely to be a factor in the 800, Sutton & Ledecky should 1 2 the 800 under 8:25 Lochte scratching the 1 bk semi was a surprise, thought he'd do semi's but guess he didn't want to feel like he got hit by a semi. The men's 1 bk is very tight Grevers, Plummer, & Thoman plus Hesen not far behind. FYI Hesen went 44 in the 100 SCY bk Ryan Murphy's 53.76 is remarkable, this Bolles school prodigy is only 16 & broke his own 54.9 NR He's even better in the 200 bk & could upset clary or phelps. NR Recs Conger's 54.5 was excellent too Between Franklin & Bootsma, Natalie Coughlin has some serious challengers in the 1 bk and might not make top 2. Her best shot is the the 1 free for the relay. Franklin has the womens 2 fr semi, which she should cruise and still make top 8 then after the mens 200 fr final she's back up for the womens 1 bk final. (Not much rest) The 2 free could hurt her 1 bk some. But it's not a surprise and she swam many back to back races at grand prixs We will see

I think calling Natalie a 100 back specialist fails to account for her other accomplishments. Olympic medals in the 100 Free, 200 IM and 4X200 Relay demonstrate a bit of versatility. And Natalie is no slouch in the 100 Fly or in SCM or SCY events. Note in my humble opinion, I would suggest David Theile was a greater 100 Back specialist, if you compare his 100 back accomplishments (2 Olympic gold) to his other swimming accomplishments. I agree but what I was referring to and maybe poorly was that as a 100 backstroker or specialist for that matter was the historical history in that event and how with tonight's swim that could change. It had nothing to do with the other outstanding accomplishments in other strokes, in other distances, and in other courses. It had nothing to do with American, World, and Olympic Medals. The whole point was that this is an opportunity that no USA Women in this Olympics has and you have to go back to either Brooke Bennett in 2004 in the 800 Free and Janet Evans in the 800 Free in 1996 for a Women to get this opportunity. We all know Phelps has a chance to do this in several events (100 Fly 200 Fly 200 IM and 400 IM) and swimmers from other countries like Kitajimi and Covernty have a chance in this Olympics as well. Since only two swimmers in the history of the Olympic Games have done this, this is quite a remarkable achievement. I could say the same thing about Phelps in both fly's because he is now and probably after London become the best flyer in the history of the sport as a flyer and as a specialist in the stroke. It does not take away his other outstanding accomplishments in the sport. When you say someone is a specialist in a stroke, I don't take it to mean that that is the only thing they do and they are not excellent in anything else. If that is what people think, then yes specialist is the wrong word and the stroke used should only be mentioned.

Nice analysis skip Thanks. I'll take the opportunity to piggyback on that other Skip's work. :D Not saying I'm that guy or anything...

I think calling Natalie a 100 back specialist fails to account for her other accomplishments. Olympic medals in the 100 Free, 200 IM and 4X200 Relay demonstrate a bit of versatility. And Natalie is no slouch in the 100 Fly or in SCM or SCY events. Natalie’s 11 Olympic medals is the most of any female swimmer with 5 of those medals for swimming other than backstroke. Note in my humble opinion, I would suggest David Theile was a greater 100 Back specialist, if you compare his 100 back accomplishments (2 Olympic gold) to his other swimming accomplishments. I don't think there is any doubt(at least not in my mind) that Natalie has the greatest SDK of all time.

How awesome to see Hansen and Shanteau come in 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke! :banana: They both have compelling stories- and, they are both great guys. Did you see the pure joy on Shanteau's face when he realized he made the cut? :D I watched replays a couple of times on the computer, just to see it again! To overcome cancer like he has and make the team again, WOW! :applaud:

Not saying I'm that guy or anything... I was worried there for a minute.