2011 14th Fina World Swimming Championships
Shanghai, China
Sat July 24 - Sun Aug 1st
Schedule
Results
Pretraining
there's Six pretraining venues has already prepared for the teams and athletics who arrive in shanghai ahead of the scheduled time. & the cheapest they charge the athletes to train is $20 per hour per swimmer.
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True - but GWG swam slower in finals than in prelims. I would be a lot that Lochte would have been meaningfully faster. Probably not 1 second better.
So here is the scoop:
In 2010 there were two world champ team qualifying meets: Nationals and Pan Pacs. The top two swimmers from either of those meets (based purely on time) were the ones who got top billing.
So the top 7 100 freestylers were, in order:
1 Phelps
2 Adrian
3 Lezak 48.4 (pan pacs)
4 WeberGale 48.73 (pan pcs)
5 Loche 48.8 (nationals)
6 walters 49.0 (nationals)
7 Robison 49.3 (nationals)
The bottom 4 guys swam the relay with 1 spot open for finals. They had to do it that way. It was 7 guys competing for 4 spots. There was only one relay to eliminate 3 competitors. Weber-Gale won the elimination.
Considering Lochte knew that he had to have the fastest split on the relay to be able to swim at night, I find it a bit of a stretch to predict that he would have been meaningfully faster than Lezak's 48.1.
If you guaranteed me 48.00 as the slowest split for the US in London right now I would take it. To win the relay they will need a 47 mid lead off from Phelps, a 47 low of Adrian and a 47 mid from the 3rd fastest swimmer (+ the 48.00)
True - but GWG swam slower in finals than in prelims. I would be a lot that Lochte would have been meaningfully faster. Probably not 1 second better.
So here is the scoop:
In 2010 there were two world champ team qualifying meets: Nationals and Pan Pacs. The top two swimmers from either of those meets (based purely on time) were the ones who got top billing.
So the top 7 100 freestylers were, in order:
1 Phelps
2 Adrian
3 Lezak 48.4 (pan pacs)
4 WeberGale 48.73 (pan pcs)
5 Loche 48.8 (nationals)
6 walters 49.0 (nationals)
7 Robison 49.3 (nationals)
The bottom 4 guys swam the relay with 1 spot open for finals. They had to do it that way. It was 7 guys competing for 4 spots. There was only one relay to eliminate 3 competitors. Weber-Gale won the elimination.
Considering Lochte knew that he had to have the fastest split on the relay to be able to swim at night, I find it a bit of a stretch to predict that he would have been meaningfully faster than Lezak's 48.1.
If you guaranteed me 48.00 as the slowest split for the US in London right now I would take it. To win the relay they will need a 47 mid lead off from Phelps, a 47 low of Adrian and a 47 mid from the 3rd fastest swimmer (+ the 48.00)
