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.
The 48.08 leadoff free leg for Phelps is his "textile best" so all in all not a bad swim for him. It will be interesting to see how that would place in the 100. He didn't look good in the 200, though and I am thinking that he will end up being out of the medals. I would not be surprised if the only individual gold that he ends up with is the 100 fly but I hope that I am wrong.
Rebecca Soni went an astonishing 1:04.91 in the 100Br semi-finals! The WR stands at 1:04.45...
EDIT: And Dale Oen just scratched the WR too! Damn! Was also shocked that Kita didn't medal.
Personally, I don't like the way they introduce the swimmers before the races.
Can you elaborate for someone who's not watching the meet? Are they saying something like, "Here's that jerk from the USA who hasn't had a really good swim in two years?" Aside from that how badly can you botch the introduction? You say the swimmer's name, lane number and affiliation, right? You've got me curious...
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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.
Re-watching the semi I noticed how devastating Lochte's underwater at the last turn was, he left Biedermann one meter behind with that one, I hope he'll be left enough to repeat it in the final. Phelps looked like he was slacking around and qualified with the fifth time, his underwaters and breakouts are still more elegant by the way.
Yep, agree...I think he can still take the 100 fly...Lochte and Biederman should give Phelps a nice race for the Bronze in the 200. I think Park has a good chance of taking it the same way he took the 400...Can't wait to see Clary swim the 200 back.
He didn't earn his spot based on the morning swim. Weber-Gale's flat start is better than Lochte's relay start. Walters had a better relay swim that Lochte as well.
The relay team lost by almost 1 second. I doubt Lochte or Walters would have been able to split :46+ in the final to close the cap.
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.
Yep, that was a good swim for Phelps...I didn't think he would break 48 given his work load for the year...He looked like he had good easy speed in the 200 prelim...I think he has a shot at the bronze..we will see.
