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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He's got 11 medals at major international meets that resulted from him swimming 100 meters...
en.wikipedia.org/.../Ryan_Lochte
Lochte dominated the 100m Back for years, short course..He also dominates the 100m IM short course...He doesn't swim the 100m Back long course because it doesn't fit well in his schedule. Also, Americans are usually very deep in the 100m backstroke. Its one thing to lose out in the sprints but in this event, its definitely a bit of an embarrassment to get pushed out of medals at worlds by the French.:afraid:
So the theory here seems to be that, since the US doesn't have 50s in USA-S meets or use them for qualifying for national teams, they are not having much success in sprints. I don't know that this is well supported by the data.
Here are the list of Olympic medal winners for men and women.
We've had the 50 free for quite some time internationally and we've done well on the men's side and okay on the women's side (not dominant but arguably no other country has done better; possibly China). Has this success in the 50 translated into success in the 100 free? It doesn't look like it to me: the US looks to have done worse in the 100 on the men's side, and roughly the same on the women's side.
Has the US done worse in the 100 strokes compared to the 100 free? No, I don't think so, and in most cases the performance has been better.
(Note: these are quick guesstimates based on eyeballing the data.)
At this year's Worlds, the US did not do well in the 100 free (men or women) but not too badly in the other 100s. On the women's side: gold in the 100 fly and ***, bronze in the 100 back (only 0.1 sec from gold). On the men's side: I wouldn't bet against Phelps in the fly and McGill is a solid bet to medal. No medal in the 100 back but still a pretty strong showing to get 4th and 5th, both within 0.3 sec of the winning time. The poorest showing is in the men's 100 *** (8th), though I think that reflects a general weakness in men's breaststroke rather than lack of sprinting: Gangloff placed better in the 50 than the 100, after all.
It may well be true that the lack of opportunities in the 50s may discourage "sprint specialists" in the vein of GHG, Jager and Dara. But honestly I think college swimming is much more focused on sprinting than distance swimming. For decades I've been hearing about how poorly the US does in distance free, rather than sprints. (And at least a few of these "sprint specialists" from other countries train in the US.)
On a personal note as a spectator: I find the 50s not much fun to watch; I vastly prefer watching 100s, 200s and 400s. (Even the breaststroke!) YMMV, of course.
On a personal note as a spectator: I find the 50s not much fun to watch; I vastly prefer watching 100s, 200s and 400s.Three :applaud: to that! I can't wait to watch the 1500!
Even as a slow-twitch mid-D guy who couldn't sprint if my suit was on fire, I agree 100% with this.
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ITA and I'd just rely on the dampening properties of water over a period of 5 mins or so to extinguish any flames.
Three :applaud: to that! I can't wait to watch the 1500!
I hope they show it all but I'm not optimistic.
If TPTB do not want swimming to have more events in the Olympics, I think they should at least drop the women's 800 free and let them swim the 1500, like the men.
On a somewhat related note: I do think more USA-S meets should have 50s in them for the senior age groups, even if I wouldn't necessarily want to swim them myself. As long as the meets still have the same event limit then they probably won't last longer, and it would give swimmers more choice.
And it would mean more rest between events for us "real" swimmers. :) :bolt:
Just watched the 200 back final on the tube. I just can't get over Lochte's underwaters. He goes out to almost 15m on every wall of the 200. That is just phenomenal conditioning.
:afraid:Yes, True and that certain old woman lost the gold in the last Olympics by a hundredth of a second....:bliss:
How could she lose something that she didn't have?
Dara didn't LOSE anything, she failed to WIN the gold by .01, there is a HUGE difference. But she still WON silver.
Since no one else did it, I'll have to mention Teresa Crippen myself (let's make her my 4th day's swimmer of the day).
Teresa is Francis Crippen's sister. Fran died this year during a 10k race but his family stayed in the world of swimming with the Fran Crippen foundation and his 3 sisters still racing, all in elite level.
Teresa made it to the semi-final of the 200, which is a great accomplishment in what I believe was an awful year for her. She's only 20 or 21 so I hope there's more to come from her.
We had a good prelim session - every one of our swimmers advanced! I was a bit surprised to see Soni in the medley relay prelim. The 1500 final looks like it will be a dogfight for silver and bronze.
