Open Water Swimming at the Aquatics LEN European Championships 2018

[phelps 7,677]

3 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Don't know if it's because of the weather, but I do know with these clothes it was much easier to recognize the athletes, so +1 for that.

 

yeah, they were wearing those suits because of the cold water...and it was a big trouble for many swimmers (normally they swim in warm places, where you can't use those full bodysuits), especially for our girls (they said before the start they were going to have some problems because of those suits...they really hate them)...

 

being able to recognize theathletes more easily is the only good thing about this situation...

Edited August 8, 2018 by phelps

[heywoodu 15,145]

5 minutes ago, phelps said:

p.s. @hckosice if you can, you should also change the title of this thread in "Open Water Swimming" and so on, rather than "Marathin Swimming" and so on...

 

I take back my bad words about you, eat all the fish and vegetables you want. This post 

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, they were wearing those suits because of the cold water...and it was a big trouble for many swimmers (normally they swim in warm places, where you can't use those full bodysuits), especially for our girls (they said before the start they were going to have some problems because of those suits...they really hate them)...

I'm happy with them

 

It's often way too hard to recognize the athletes, I don't get why they simply use swimming caps in full national flag colours for example (or with something distinguishing them, like orange for the Dutch). 

[phelps 7,677]

Adesso, heywoodu ha scritto:

I'm happy with them

 

It's often way too hard to recognize the athletes, I don't get why they simply use swimming caps in full national flag colours for example (or with something distinguishing them, like orange for the Dutch). 

 

I agree on that...and I don't understand why they don't do it...it shouldn't be that complicated, I guess...

[hckošice 14,834]

Women´s 5Km

 

1. Sharon Van Rouwendaal   56:01.0, 2. Leonie Antonia Beck    56:17.8, 3. Rachele Bruni    56:49.7

[hckošice 14,834]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

wow we are competing I see one 17 years old girl in the start list, hopefully she will swim in the right direction and finish the race

 

and in the men´s event we have a 15 years old boy any special reason, why we send them here ? the girl finished dead last 7 minutes behind the winner, and the guy is already two lakes behind

 

[hckošice 14,834]

Men´s 5Km

 

1. Kristof Rasovszky    52:38.9, 2. Axel Reymond    52:41.7, 3. Logan Fontaine    52:44.4

[heywoodu 15,145]

Vermeulen fighting for bronze, I had no idea she was already this good in open water 

 

Very nice fight for gold between Van Rouwendaal and Gabrielleschi, kilometer after kilometer.

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Double gold for Van Rouwendaal 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Domination