2011 World Swimming Championships Shanghai Jul 24

Did anyone see Kyu Woong's entrance for the 200 breaststroke final? What was that about? :D ‪Shanghai 2011 Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke final @ Gyurta Daniel - fÃrfi 200 m mell döntÅ‘‬‏ - YouTube at the 1:10 mark

:afraid:Wow, France was eliminated from the 400MR, 9th place...Their Butterfly leg fell apart! What a shocker.. They were the European champions this year and had a great chance to take down the Americans...oh the horror....:agree:

:bliss:Lochte looked amazing. He really really loafed the free leg and still went a 4:11+. Is he going to challenge that 4:03? Clary looked really good also...I'll bet he is in the medals also. What a tough event and what a couple of monsters...:bouncing:

:banana:Weber-Gales split anchoring the MR beat Adrians' anchor on the FR! That guy really knows how to peak and step up to the plate! :bliss: Although I doubt he will get the nod for the evening event...

Look out for Clary. He cruised winning his heat. He and Ryan will have been pleased to coast in the heats this time. They had to go all out in the morning at pan pacs when the 3 per country limit had them worried MP would knock them out of finals in the later heat. Tyler set a textile pb in the 200 fly by almost a full second and another best in the 200 back. I think Ryan will win but TC might be closer than people think.

On NBC now if you are in the EST. On NBC now if you're in the PST as well! :)

Sun Yang was amazing on his last 100-150 of the 1500. Getting to watch it on NBC was cool. His last 100 looked like a 100 Free event, not the last 100 of a 1500. :applaud: :bow:

It looked like Sun Yang did a couple of strokes with 1-stroke breathing off each turn, even on that fast last 50. Any other swimmers do that?

It looked like Sun Yang did a couple of strokes with 1-stroke breathing off each turn, even on that fast last 50. Any other swimmers do that? I often do that going into the turn in distance free events, or in distance free sets. I take lots of SDK's so I want some air!

Sun Yang was taking 27 strokes per length and holding :58s. That pretty amazing. I did a warmup set a couple days ago where I was focusing on distance per stroke and taking 32. I think this guy could take another ten seconds off the world record over the next couple years. He's that good. Has anyone ever seen anyone look faster in the water than Nathan Adrian did at the start of his relay leg? It didn't even look like he was in the water. Yeah, he paid the price, but man that first 50 was unbelievable! edit: just looked at the results and his 50 split was a 21.78!