Swimming FINA Short Course World Championships 2018

[heywoodu 16,142]

This 4x200 free final was awesome  

[thepharoah 2,413]

  

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

This relay gold medal got me all tearful here. First because I would never ever expect a medal for Brazil in distances longer than 100 m. Our commentators are always proud to say we are the "sprint nation" and 200 m is not exactly a sprint distance, let alone a relay event. Second, because all five medalists come from completely different parts of the country, from the northernmost state (Roraima) to the southernmost state (Rio Grande do Sul), from a western state (Mato Grosso do Sul) to two eastern states (Rio de Janeiro and Bahia). This is incredible. Truly an effort involving swimmers from all parts of the nation!

Now, Ethiene Medeiros... No comments.

Edit: For those who care, here is a map of Brazil showing the states where all five swimmers come from.

Edited December 14, 2018 by thiago_simoes

[OlympicIRL 6,165]

First ever SC world medal for Ireland! Well done Shane

 

[heywoodu 16,142]

2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

This relay gold medal got me all tearful here. First because I would never ever expect a medal for Brazil in distances longer than 100 m. Our commentators are always proud to say we are the "sprint nation" and 200 m is not exactly a sprint distance, let alone a relay event. Second, because all five medalists come from completely different parts of the country, from the northernmost state (Roraima) to the southernmost state (Rio Grande do Sul), from a western state (Mato Grosso do Sul) to two eastern states (Rio de Janeiro and Bahia). This is incredible. Truly an effort involving swimmers from all parts of the nation!

Now, Ethiene Medeiros... No comments.

Edit: For those who care, here is a map of Brazil showing the states where all five swimmers come from.

Cool to see someone from Roraima in the team  Like many very northern and/or western states it's a bit like the Kyrgyzstan of Brazil for me, as in: never hear anything about it so it's kinda like a 'far away mystery'  

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

1 hora atrás, heywoodu disse:

Cool to see someone from Roraima in the team  Like many very northern and/or western states it's a bit like the Kyrgyzstan of Brazil for me, as in: never hear anything about it so it's kinda like a 'far away mystery'  

 

The population of the whole state of Roraima is 576,000 people. This is roughly the same number of people in the town I currently live in, Joinville.

[heywoodu 16,142]

1 minute ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

The population of the whole state of Roraima is 576,000 people. This is roughly the same number of people in the town I currently live in, Joinville.

Stop calling our biggest cities towns  

[Wumo 3,035]

11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Stop calling our biggest cities towns  

At least you can say cities. Denmark only have one ctiy, Copehagen (1.295.686), who is bigger than his "town". The population of Denmark's second biggest city, Aarhus (269.022), is not even half of Joinville's. 

Edited December 14, 2018 by wumo26

[heywoodu 16,142]

25 minutes ago, wumo26 said:

At least you can say cities. Denmark only have one ctiy, Copehagen (1.295.686), who is bigger than his "town". The population of Denmark's second biggest city, Aarhus (269.022), is not even half of Joinville's. 

Still 0.4 million people more than our biggest  

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

Nicholas Santos won two medals (one of them gold) today and this made him the oldest medalist at the short course worlds (and the oldest champion, of course) at 38 years old.

And  got a medal!  Nice achievement for Dylan Carter!