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.
OK, next relay drama: breaststroke leg of the men's medley. Described starting at the 15:00 mark of this video, tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../11618, US coaches held a 100 *** swim-off with stopwatches and Eric Shanteau won. So was this time trial's purpose to replace Alexandrov in the relay prelim? Or Gangloff in the relay final?
Hmmm...Gangloff did not look great in that 100 breastroke Final at 1:00.6 but he did go 1:00.1 in the semis. We will have a hard time winning that relay without a breastroke leg in the :59's. There was similar talk about potentially using Lochte on the backstroke leg but Plummer seems solid and may even win a bronze in the 100 back. The women also have a dilemma with the prelims of the medley relay in that do they put Hardy in who has been 1:05 this season or go with Beard who was 1:08 mid in the 100 *** here at Worlds. I think that they have to go with Hardy. I think the finals relay will be Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer and Franklin which is looking pretty darn fast...
OK, next relay drama: breaststroke leg of the men's medley. Described starting at the 15:00 mark of this video, tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../11618, US coaches held a 100 *** swim-off with stopwatches and Eric Shanteau won. So was this time trial's purpose to replace Alexandrov in the relay prelim? Or Gangloff in the relay final?
Hmmm...Gangloff did not look great in that 100 breastroke Final at 1:00.6 but he did go 1:00.1 in the semis. We will have a hard time winning that relay without a breastroke leg in the :59's. There was similar talk about potentially using Lochte on the backstroke leg but Plummer seems solid and may even win a bronze in the 100 back. The women also have a dilemma with the prelims of the medley relay in that do they put Hardy in who has been 1:05 this season or go with Beard who was 1:08 mid in the 100 *** here at Worlds. I think that they have to go with Hardy. I think the finals relay will be Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer and Franklin which is looking pretty darn fast...
