2011 World Swimming Championships Shanghai Jul 24

FYI, here is the playback list for all the FINA worlds events (including preliminaries and finals) in Shanghai from China's CCTV5: sports.cntv.cn/.../index.shtml Place mouse over a discipline (2nd row, 2nd left to right) and then move the mouse away to view the complete schedule. 游泳赛程 - swimming 跳水赛程 - diving 花样游泳赛程 - synchro swimming 男子水球赛程 - men's water polo 女子水球赛程 - women's water polo 公开水域 - open water swimming The column headings of the schedule tables are as follows (from left to right): 日期 - date 时间 - time 项目 - discipline 赛事 - event 视频直播 - live video (not available now obviously) 高清图集 - high def pics 完整回放 - complete playback **** This is the one you want!!! **** 金牌获得者 - gold medalist Help yourself with some online tools such as google translation to locate the event of your interest. One thing you can do is to go to the omega timing site for event schedule so your search is narrowed down ( omegatiming.com/index_home.htm. Don't know how long CCTV5's link and all its playback videos will remain, so enjoy while they last. As said before, there are no video playbacks for open water swimming, which is a pity.

doubt the "cheater breathing" has any effect. You need air, lots of it, in a mile and it wasn't slowing him down. How do you know it wasn't slowing him down, though? The fact he went so fast doesn't mean he couldn't have gone faster. I agree 14:15 is a bit of a stretch, but I don't think it's impossible for him.

I double breath into walls pretty regularly for distance free events. I take 3 SDK's off all walls and I need the air. I am surprised someone of his caliber does it though.

As a former distance swimmer ,you cannot use the legs that hard in a distance race or you will use all those big muscle groups & lose the arms.I have tried & so have many others, it does not work!:cane:

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. That is a BIT overzealous. It took 10 years to get to Hackett's record. I don't see anyone going 20 seconds FASTER. Being a former miler myself, I would think 14:30 is within range possibly. Sun's stroke is SO efficient I doubt the "cheater breathing" has any effect. You need air, lots of it, in a mile and it wasn't slowing him down.

On a sidenote, he needs a cosmetic dentist on staff.:afraid: I'll agree with you on that! Maybe the Chinese offered to fix his teeth if he broke the world record.

Larsen Jensen's coach, Bill Rose, decided that he would need a six beat kick to compete with Hackett, so that became a focus of his training, and he was able to maintain it throughout the 1500.

Grant Hackett reportedly felt almost annoyed that his 1500m record was only lowered by a whisker, LOL, but I think he may have a legitimate gripe. When you look at the splits of the last 100m of all 3 the individual finals (400m, 800m, and 1500m) Sun swam, the one in the 1500m is the fastest thanks to that crazy last 50m. Perhaps Hackett can only blame his former mentor Denis Cotterell, who is said to have a fine sense of occasion. He advised Sun to hold his fire at the Chinese trials in April. Now that Sun has made the history in the FINA worlds, Cotterell may well be planning the next moves for Sun in London's Olympics, an even bigger stage.

I double breath into walls pretty regularly for distance free events. I take 3 SDK's off all walls and I need the air. I am surprised someone of his caliber does it though. Maybe he swallowed water or something... did he do it on every wall or just once? (I only caught him once)

Maybe he swallowed water or something... did he do it on every wall or just once? (I only caught him once) Pretty much every wall.