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.
The U.S. really seems to be falling behind the rest of the world in sprinting. I'm sure part of it is the fact we poo poo the 50 stroke events. Most of our superstars tend to be "well rounded" swimmers. We just don't have the true sprint specialists. Yes, there are exceptions, but I think as a general rule this is the case in the U.S.
Agree! The US does best in the 200s as evidenced by Phelps, Lochte, Soni, Franklin, wins in 800 free relay, etc.
The 50 seems to be a very recent addition to USA-S meets, and not frequently offered. Unless we focus more on the 50s (which would then help the 100s), we'll keep getting stomped. There just seems to be some innate bias against sprint specialists -- not "real" swimmers, etc. Foolish thinking, and the rest of the world clearly doesn't feel that way.
The U.S. really seems to be falling behind the rest of the world in sprinting. I'm sure part of it is the fact we poo poo the 50 stroke events. Most of our superstars tend to be "well rounded" swimmers. We just don't have the true sprint specialists. Yes, there are exceptions, but I think as a general rule this is the case in the U.S.
Agree! The US does best in the 200s as evidenced by Phelps, Lochte, Soni, Franklin, wins in 800 free relay, etc.
The 50 seems to be a very recent addition to USA-S meets, and not frequently offered. Unless we focus more on the 50s (which would then help the 100s), we'll keep getting stomped. There just seems to be some innate bias against sprint specialists -- not "real" swimmers, etc. Foolish thinking, and the rest of the world clearly doesn't feel that way.
