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2011 World Swimming Championships Shanghai Jul 24

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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.
  • 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 do it going into turns as well (not coming out), but it's more of a lazy habit. When I did my fast 1650 last February, I actually made a point of NOT doing it, and it made me much faster. I did catch myself doing it a few times :frustrated: Old habits are hard to break. I've been working on swimming with breathing to the opposite side now as well, and it feels really strange. I have sort of a galloping stroke, and I have to reverse it to breathe to the opposite side. I think that in my next 1650 attempt, I will try something different, and breathe straight ahead, with both arms recovering at the same time, and possibly use a dolphin kick!! I will dedicate this one to Peony, who does a 1650 like this every practice.
  • I don't think the US is behind the rest of the world in sprinting, we just don't send the best swimmers or cover all the slots. The men's 50 fly they only put in Cullen Jones and the 50 *** they only put in Gangloff. Why aren't they using both slots? We have guys that could be competitive. Maybe if USA-S doesn't think they have a chance of making finals, they don't want to spend the money to send them to China. I don't get it.
  • To help put Sun's last 100 into perspective: Hackett was watching back home in Australia and knew that Sun could pull off a faster finish than he could. Not sure if the 1960 100m free champion John Devitt was watching too Down Under but if he was he might have marvelled at time passing: he held the 100m world record at 54.6 in 1957 before American Stephen Clark took it on in 54.4 in 1961. Sun's last two of 30 laps - 54.22, only 0.7sec or so shy of the time in which the women's 100m crown was won here in Shanghai. :bow: Source: www.swimnews.com/.../8843
  • Think of how much faster he could go if he kicked the entire time. He was hardly kicking at all for most of the race. If he starts kicking and knocks off the cheater breathing he could get down to the 14:15 range. That sounds crazy, but it means holding 57s. I think it's possible.
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    American record is 4:31.12 by Hoff in 2008.
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    On NBC now if you are in the EST.
  • Androvski, I kind of liked what Kyu Woong did. Showed passion. Kind of like Amy Van Dyken spitting in the lane of the opponent next to her except what Kyu did had more class. I think what Wong did was great. Shows a little passion. I thought Gary Hall's performances were great too. Only in swimming would that be controversial. Consider what goes on in basketball or football, and it puts Hall or Wong in perspective.
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    I do it going into turns as well (not coming out), but it's more of a lazy habit. When I did my fast 1650 last February, I actually made a point of NOT doing it, and it made me much faster. I did catch myself doing it a few times :frustrated: Old habits are hard to break. I've been working on swimming with breathing to the opposite side now as well, and it feels really strange. I have sort of a galloping stroke, and I have to reverse it to breathe to the opposite side. I will do it too on occasion in the longer free events. The key is doing it efficiently. Obviously it didn't slow Sun down!
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    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 - fÃCopyrightrfi 200 m mell döntÅ‘‬‏ - YouTube at the 1:10 mark I donno but I certainly liked it :applaud: He reminded me of Usain Bolt in the way he made a show out of this. Sports IS a show, so why not have fun :) And talking about bizzare, did anyone see that girl (I think she was from Finnland) in the first heat of the women's medley relay? She swam the weirdest backstroke ever using a dolphin kick instead of a normal one. Didn't seem like it helped, but on the other hand, she must have tried it back in training and thought she'd be faster that way, so maybe we're watching the future of backstroke right here, haha...