2011 World Swimming Championships Shanghai Jul 24

Given his poor result in the 50, it's not surprising that Cavic missed the semis of the 100.

Was it egregious? Upon first glance, I though he must have dolphin kicked in to get to the wall first. But in the above water replay, I wasn't so sure; need to see underwater coverage. Universal Sports dubbed it a "controversial finish" early in the day, so I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned earlier. Europe dominates the 50s probably because they care about, train for and race the 50s. The US doesn't; none of our stars (except Soni/Hardy maybe) seem to race the 50s. And I think it's our loss. Training for the 50s would likely help our 100s. But until 50s are Olympic events, we'll apparently ignore them to focus on 100/200. ‪(27/07/11) World Championships Swimming Shanghai. 50 m. braza masc./ Men's 50 m breaststroke‬‏ - YouTube at around the 2:27 mark. 7 4 HEEMSKERK Femke NED 0.81 (1) 26.63 (1) 55.61 (1) 1:25.51 1:57.63 2.05 28.98 29.90 32.12 She split her 100's 6.41 seconds apart. Certainly not a good swim, but you'll see worse splitting than that in pretty much any Masters 200 heat. 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.

Actually it looked to me that they both had great last turns and that the main difference was the BR leg. Backstroke that is, not the ***.

That will change in the women's 50 ***. We will get at least one and hopefully two medals. Vollmer could maybe sneak something out in women's 50 fly as well... Franklin's bronze effort in the 50 back seemed to warm her up nicely for that 1:55.05 relay lead off.

These are his 200 fly splits, not IM. Oops!:afraid:

WOW, top seed in the 50 doesn't even make the top 16.....I'll let you figure out who (it not Caesar)

Another WOW, no Phelps/Cavic rematch in the 100 Fly.....I'll let you guess who didn't make the top 16. Tyler McGill was fastest.

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. Yeah, I fully agree with you. I'm not saying that it is unforgivable or that it has never happened before. But it doesn't make it any less shocking, at least for me :)

A men's 100 fly semifinal containing Huegill, Froelander, Mankoc, Phelps, and Cseh makes the party sound like 1999. (okay maybe more 2001-a butterfly odyssey)

Could this 50's issue be related to ncaa swimming and points. Or maybe youth swimming. Not one of the swimming programs I was in as a kid had a "sprint" workout. It was all distance yardage.