Can't say I ever focused on women's swimming before today, but a slow day, lol. Having now seen KL swim, and having reviewed all the records she holds, I gotta say she's pretty amazing. I watched the 1500m freestyle (in which she set another record - she holds the top 20 times ever in the event, which is kind of hard to get your head around). I used to swim distances - not competitively but for lifeguard training and stuff like that. The idea of racing for 1500m, which is not far short of a mile, just makes me tired thinking about it.
Anyway, kudos to her. She seems to be the GOAT in her areas of competition.
this is just mind boggling. they said on the telecast that, based on trends, they don't expect her 1500 world record to be broken for 30 years. that's hard to wrap your head around.
Go back to bed gramps.
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Does this appear to be the worst run olympics ever. Complaints about the opening ceremony to the complaints about the beds and food and now allowing men to beat up woman boxers.
Go back to bed gramps.
Yeah, must be an old guy because he doesn’t want to see a woman get injured or killed in the boxing ring a biological man.
Trite, lazy response.
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Does this appear to be the worst run olympics ever. Complaints about the opening ceremony to the complaints about the beds and food and now allowing men to beat up woman boxers.
Go back to bed gramps.
What a dismissive, shitty take.
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Does this appear to be the worst run olympics ever. Complaints about the opening ceremony to the complaints about the beds and food and now allowing men to beat up woman boxers.
Go back to bed gramps.
You seem to have a recurring theme with posts against old people. Are you dealing with a family issue or just being a dickhead?
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Does this appear to be the worst run olympics ever. Complaints about the opening ceremony to the complaints about the beds and food and now allowing men to beat up woman boxers.
Go back to bed gramps.
What a dismissive, shitty take.
This is a thread about the achievements of one of the finest Olympians in history that you decided to take a dump on with unrelated grievances.
Next time ask an American to design and build it, morons
Next time ask an American to design and build it, morons
The French may have built a slow pool, but they were smart enough to steal our best coach. (Bob Bowman).
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I am not a water displacement scientist, but I found it an interesting observation.
Are olympic pools typically deeper and if so, does it really change the dynamics toward world records?
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this is just mind boggling. they said on the telecast that, based on trends, they don't expect her 1500 world record to be broken for 30 years. that's hard to wrap your head around.
And in what many are saying is a “slow pool” (don’t ask me how a pool is slow, just repeating what I read!).
As an aside, we did the whole USA swimming thing with one of the kids and the amount of training these distance swimmers put in is staggering. 4000-5000 calories a day during training and still feeling hungry. My kid had the good fortune to swim against some of the current olympians and from the ones we have met, truly great kids and great families - at least from the convos on the deck of a pool. Easy to root for.
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Does this appear to be the worst run olympics ever. Complaints about the opening ceremony to the complaints about the beds and food and now allowing men to beat up woman boxers.
Go back to bed gramps.
Yeah, must be an old guy because he doesn’t want to see a woman get injured or killed in the boxing ring a biological man.
Trite, lazy response.
Or he’s an old guy because his BBI profile confirms it.
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this is just mind boggling. they said on the telecast that, based on trends, they don't expect her 1500 world record to be broken for 30 years. that's hard to wrap your head around.
And in what many are saying is a “slow pool” (don’t ask me how a pool is slow, just repeating what I read!).
Exactly. Ledecky has the 20 fastest swims ever recorded in the women’s 1500 meters, including last night in a slow pool. Absolute legend
The minimum depth for Olympic competition is 2 meters, for international non-Olympic meets its 2.5 meters. The typical Olympic standard has been 3 meters (Beijing was an outlier at 10 meters)
In Paris the pool is 2.15 meters…slightly above the minimum, but shallower than any other Olympics in recent memory.
Several swimmers from multiple countries have pointed this out as the reason everyone’s swimming slower (in many cases, swimmers posting times slower than what they swam a month or so ago in their qualifying meets)
They’ve also been quoted talking about having to adapt their dives and stroke rate to accommodate for the shallower/slower pool
If true, that's pretty awesome
The way she's head and shoulders ahead of her peers in her best competitions is pretty remarkable.
The 20 best 1500M times being held by the same person? That's pretty much as dominant as it can possibly get.
Not sure where she falls under "the best" swimmers of recent times when taking all the different competitions into context, but she certainly feels like the "biggest" US name in swimming I've seen since Phelps was at his best.
200 and above are not considered sprint but distance. Only Free has 400 and over
Michael Phelps won the 400 IM and 200 Fly which are considered to be the two hardest most grueling swims
He also swam the 200 free.
Phelps was not a sprinter. Not that he can’t do it but he didn’t swim the 50 free and 100 free. (although he did swim the the 4 x100 in free relays)
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taught her to swim!
If true, that's pretty awesome
The way she's head and shoulders ahead of her peers in her best competitions is pretty remarkable.
The 20 best 1500M times being held by the same person? That's pretty much as dominant as it can possibly get.
Not sure where she falls under "the best" swimmers of recent times when taking all the different competitions into context, but she certainly feels like the "biggest" US name in swimming I've seen since Phelps was at his best.
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That’s awesome
I love the clips of her training by swimming an entire length of a pool with a glass of milk on her head, and she doesn’t spill a drop. I was a competitive swimmer much of my life, that’s unfathomable to me
He also won 2 individual golds on the same day which apparently hasn’t been done in 48 years.
He also won 2 individual golds on the same day which apparently hasn’t been done in 48 years.
Agreed. What always set Phelps apart IMO is not only winning so many golds, but in a variety of events. But Marchand winning both butterfly and breaststroke is virtually unheard of
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taught her to swim!
If true, that's pretty awesome
The way she's head and shoulders ahead of her peers in her best competitions is pretty remarkable.
The 20 best 1500M times being held by the same person? That's pretty much as dominant as it can possibly get.
Not sure where she falls under "the best" swimmers of recent times when taking all the different competitions into context, but she certainly feels like the "biggest" US name in swimming I've seen since Phelps was at his best.
True. My wife’s cousins are from Bethesda. She was one of the instructors at the same swimming club for little kids when Katie was very little. She went on to swim (or dive, I don’t recall) for SU.