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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I only saw the the men's 800 on TV today. Man, Sun Yang has a beautiful stroke. So effortless. He and Cochrane were out at the 200 faster than Pellegrini won the 200 free in!
Here's men's 800 free final in its entirety from China's CCTV5:
sports.cntv.cn/.../118265.shtml
1 3 PHELPS Michael USA 0.69 (1) 25.02 (1) 53.86 (2) 1:23.42 1:53.34
28.84 29.56 29.92
2 4 MATSUDA Takeshi JPN 0.74 (2) 25.25 (2) 53.99 (1) 1:23.37 1:54.01 0.67
28.74 29.38 30.64
He gutted this one out as Matsuda faded in the last 50
29.56 in br and then 29.92 in fr. I know he slowed down in the 4th 50 but it's amazing.
:banana::applaud: Wow, Lochte and Phelps just dominated the 200IM! Lochte got the WR..woohoo! Its just amazing to see them continue to absolutely dominate this event. No one else in the field even came close to their semi times. Lochte just killed Phelps on the last turn. His conditioning is really showing. He could really bust out an incredible 400IM this week. I just love seeing someone who works that hard do so well.....:bliss:
Actually it looked to me that they both had great last turns and that the main difference was the BR leg.
Franklin's bronze effort in the 50 back seemed to warm her up nicely for that 1:55.05 relay lead off.
That was an incredible leg. She would have beaten Pelligrini in open 200!
‪(27/07/11) World Championships Swimming Shanghai. 50 m. braza masc./ Men's 50 m breaststroke‬ - YouTube
at around the 2:27 mark.
Wow, that was egregious. Blatant dolphin kick at the end--don't know how anyone could argue otherwise.
I think Lochte may have a shot at the WR today and he'll be going for it, he went 1:54.43 at Pan Pacs last year, 1:54.10 should be within range.
EDIT: and so it was, terrific swim by Lochte and new WR at 1:54.00. The last 50 was very close at the end, Phelps could win, he went below his old 2008 WR of 1:54.23 with 1:54.16. We should compare the splits.
Sure. It's just that I don't find it odd that it happens so often in masters meets, but to see it in "elite" swimming is very weird. Especially since she was so ahead of her opponents and then got swept away by field in the first 20 meters of the last lap.
Here are Rebecca Soni's 200 *** splits from Rome:
(1) 31.41 (1) 1:05.73 (1) 1:42.20 2:22.15
34.32 36.47 39.95
She had a 2.5 second lead at the 150 and ended up fourth! Her 100s were 1:05.73, 1:16.42. Rebecca Soni is usually a great 200 *** swimmer. So the moral here is it can happen to the best of them.
