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.
Does it seem to anyone else that Chinese swimmers tend to be here today and gone tomorrow? They usually have a few swimmers capable of winning gold medals at World events, but they never seem to produce any lasting legacy.
I will admit I have a hard time remembering their names and that could be part of it.
After watching the video of the 200 Free finals I have to say a few things:
1. Hats off to Ryan, great race, and AMAZING third 50....especially off the wall at the 100.
This was a given though as far as comments.
2. Phelps showed some balls. His strategy didn't quite work, but almost. But I give him a lot of credit for taking it out so fast....likely freaking out the field a bit and trying to put them out of their comfort zone. It was different race from the Phelps we usually see and I'm sure it gave him some info on the field (and motivation) for London.
3. Its gonna be a great Olympics. Its pretty wide open in this event.....5 guys under 1:45 within .5 or so of each other.
:applaud::applaud: What a great night for the Americans! Kate looked great in the 1500m. I'm just sick they don't swim that in the Olympics. I just loved watching Lochte win the 200m. That was an incredible finish. I still think this event is up for grabs next year. There were 5 guys within a 0.5sec of each other at the wall, insane!!! I'll bet money that Soni is gonna take the record down before trials...:banana:
What do you expect from Phelps and Lochte in the final of the 200 IM tomorrow?
Both have a shot at it but I have the feeling that Lochte will have the edge, he was ahead of Phelps after the butterfly today but Phelps had swum the 200 fly an hour earlier, I don't know, it will be tight.
I expect them both to be on the podium. Preferably in the top two spots. Lochte will probably win it.
2011 14th Fina World Swimming Championships
Shanghai, China
Sat July 24 - Sun Aug 1st
Schedule
Results
OmegaTiming Results
Lot's of excitement.
No WRs so far
Back to the 200 Free,while Lockte had a great swim and deserved to win Phelps was also amazing under the circumstances.Was Biederman just helped more by the shiny suits than anyone else or what?
Re: the MRs,I don't see the US Men winning,but the Women's relay may be amazing.
Complete coverage of Men's 800m free preliminary round. Plenty of excellent underwater footage - best video work I've ever seen. Sun Yang's heat (No. 7) starts @ 48min:
sports.cntv.cn/.../109705.shtml
