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.
Parents
Former Member
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.
You'll like this. Our club coach told my oldest son, who is 10 and likes to sprint, "50s are for old people and Europeans. Americans swim 200s and 100s".:bitching:
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.
You'll like this. Our club coach told my oldest son, who is 10 and likes to sprint, "50s are for old people and Europeans. Americans swim 200s and 100s".:bitching:
