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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Park nearly botched his prelim swim there, and has to be outside smoke in the final.
Close....he seems to like being on the outside though.
On a sidenote......I could have beaten at least ONE male competitor and TWO female competitors in the 400! Where do I sign up for some third world country?! :D
They've actually tightened up standards this time around- used to be that the no-hopers got pretty much unlimited entries, and now you've actually got to be good enough to make it to the high school state finals of one of those square states in most cases.
400 meter free relay, real disappointment for the U.S. men. Third place - argh!!!
Here are the splits:
48.08 (Phelps)
48.33 (Weber-Gale)
48.15 (Lezak)
47.40 (Adrian)
Here were the splits from the prelims. Eddie Reese has already been asked why Ryan Lochte was not placed in the final.
48.49 (Weber-Gale)
48.28 (Lochte)
48.62 (Robison)
48.11 (Walters)
Missy Franklin splits a 52.9 on the women's 4 X 100 free relay with a .43 reaction time. I nominate her to anchor our women's medley relay. Natalie lead-off, Soni and Vollmer. Could they break the WR?
My first day's swimmer of the day is definitely Geoff Huegill.
I still don't know if he deserves glory (for coming back out of pretty much nowhere) or contempt (for changing from an elite swimmer into what he was just a couple of years ago) but one thing is sure, I've never seen or heard about such amazing comeback.
I wish he wins it tomorrow.
And much like Luca, I dislike the way they introduce the swimmers, too.
I wouldn't like to be introduced like that myself if I were there, nervous and all...
