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.
OK, next relay drama: breaststroke leg of the men's medley. Described starting at the 15:00 mark of this video, tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../11618, US coaches held a 100 *** swim-off with stopwatches and Eric Shanteau won. So was this time trial's purpose to replace Alexandrov in the relay prelim? Or Gangloff in the relay final?
Choosing today's swimmer of the day was just as easy as yesterday.
My second day's swimmer of the day award goes to.... Alexander Dale Oen.
Why?
Because he is the only finalist who refused to wear tech suits before they were banned (which cost him the Olympic gold medal in Beijing and the final in Rome, I believe)
That just makes him rather stupid, in my book. But I agree he looked great today.
True - but GWG swam slower in finals than in prelims. I would be a lot that Lochte would have been meaningfully faster. Probably not 1 second better.
So here is the scoop:
In 2010 there were two world champ team qualifying meets: Nationals and Pan Pacs. The top two swimmers from either of those meets (based purely on time) were the ones who got top billing.
So the top 7 100 freestylers were, in order:
1 Phelps
2 Adrian
3 Lezak 48.4 (pan pacs)
4 WeberGale 48.73 (pan pcs)
5 Loche 48.8 (nationals)
6 walters 49.0 (nationals)
7 Robison 49.3 (nationals)
The bottom 4 guys swam the relay with 1 spot open for finals. They had to do it that way. It was 7 guys competing for 4 spots. There was only one relay to eliminate 3 competitors. Weber-Gale won the elimination.
Considering Lochte knew that he had to have the fastest split on the relay to be able to swim at night, I find it a bit of a stretch to predict that he would have been meaningfully faster than Lezak's 48.1.
If you guaranteed me 48.00 as the slowest split for the US in London right now I would take it. To win the relay they will need a 47 mid lead off from Phelps, a 47 low of Adrian and a 47 mid from the 3rd fastest swimmer (+ the 48.00)
OK, next relay drama: breaststroke leg of the men's medley. Described starting at the 15:00 mark of this video, tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../11618, US coaches held a 100 *** swim-off with stopwatches and Eric Shanteau won. So was this time trial's purpose to replace Alexandrov in the relay prelim? Or Gangloff in the relay final?
Hmmm...Gangloff did not look great in that 100 breastroke Final at 1:00.6 but he did go 1:00.1 in the semis. We will have a hard time winning that relay without a breastroke leg in the :59's. There was similar talk about potentially using Lochte on the backstroke leg but Plummer seems solid and may even win a bronze in the 100 back. The women also have a dilemma with the prelims of the medley relay in that do they put Hardy in who has been 1:05 this season or go with Beard who was 1:08 mid in the 100 *** here at Worlds. I think that they have to go with Hardy. I think the finals relay will be Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer and Franklin which is looking pretty darn fast...
Choosing today's swimmer of the day was just as easy as yesterday.
My second day's swimmer of the day award goes to.... Alexander Dale Oen.
Why?
Because he is the only finalist who refused to wear tech suits before they were banned (which cost him the Olympic gold medal in Beijing and the final in Rome, I believe) AND because, for me, he is the new world record holder.
His 58.71 is only .13 seconds slower than Rickard's 58.58, which makes him the third fastest ever in this discipline and the only swimmer to ever swim under 59 seconds in textile.
Phelps 11th after prelims of 200 fly. More surprising was Peng 15th! Ick!
Hope he was cruising just to get into one of the final and conserving energy for 200 Free and the 200 Fly Semi. Otherwise I'd say he should have not entered the 200 fly and his lack of training for it is showing through. Will know more once we see the Semi's.
I think so. He didn't even look that tired and he has a really tough night tonight with the 200 free final and 200 fly semi. I think that beating Peng was important for him mentally since Peng has beaten him in this race at the last two Grand Prix.
US women could be in some trouble in the 800 free relay with Hoff and now Scroggy not swimming well and Vollmer not really training for the 200...Schmitt looked awesome, though...
