Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019

[orangeman 1,989]

1 minute ago, ofan said:

 

Qualified for Tokyo

 just 0.06 back 

[LDOG 2,418]

Our tv just showed a close up of King's touch. It seems she makes a very soft touch with her left hand while she makes a strong one with the right hand. Maybe the left hand wasn't registered. 

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

Yeah kind of expected it would be between Singapore and South Korea for the last spot, Portugal was likely to finish last.

[orangeman 1,989]

4 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Our tv just showed a close up of King's touch. It seems she makes a very soft touch with her left hand while she makes a strong one with the right hand. Maybe the left hand wasn't registered. 

 

Maybe she should talk to Milorad Cavic about alleged soft touches on the wall.  Is Efinova sponsored by the official time keeper as well?  

[NearPup 3,045]

11 minutes ago, orangeman said:

 

Maybe she should talk to Milorad Cavic about alleged soft touches on the wall.  Is Efinova sponsored by the official time keeper as well?  

When I swam my coach always stressed hitting the wall hard. For specifically that reason.

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

It's a shame that so few nations participated. Neither Great Britain nor Italy sent a team.

[Olympian1010 7,972]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

When I swam my coach always stressed hitting the wall hard. For specifically that reason.

I was just lucky if anyone was still around me by the time I finished. I was especially bad a breaststroke. I’d say my best of Fly, which is funny because I have very little upper body strength.

[phelps 7,674]

from swimswam...

 

"American breaststroke star Lilly King was disqualified in the third heat of the 200 breast Thursday morning in Gwangju, and nearly two-and-a-half hours later, we’ve received word that USA Swimming’s protest of the decision will be heard by the Jury of Appeal before the next session begins at 8 p.m. local time Thursday.

 

King won the prelims heat, then turned at the scoreboard and reacted with shock upon seeing the DQ. According to the Italian broadcast, she walked to the officials’ table to protest, and was turned away. King was apparently not given a reason for her DQ when she asked after her race.

 

USA Swimming also did not know what it was for until about 30 minutes after the race, when it was told that King did a “non-simultaneous touch” on her first turn."

[phelps 7,674]

4 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

It's a shame that so few nations participated. Neither Great Britain nor Italy sent a team.

 

obviously...except for Pellegrini, at the moment we don't have a swimmer capable of going below the 2-min mark (yeah, maybe a couple of non-specialists like Quadarella, Cusinato or Panziera could swim 1.59, but not more than that)...

we didn't start the women's 4*100m free relay, too...our women's team is not as deep as the men's...

[heywoodu 15,135]

Meh, missing out on King vs Efimova because of King's DQ