Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019

[JoshMartini007 2,214]

Nice to see all of the top teams all going with two men then two women so we know who's winning

[thiago_simoes 1,359]

Only European swimmers qualified for the men's 1500 freestyle final. The best non-European was only 11th. Crazy.

[phelps 6,872]

Pilato!

our wonder baby seems not to be bothered by any sort of pressure...she improved her PB/NR once again in the heats...

 

and as expected, Wellbrock and Romanchuk are there, close to super-Greg (who said he's only used this morning's heat as a warm-up...I fear he not only wants to win the gold medal tomorrow, but also try to go for Sun's WR...and I'm not sure that would be a good and safe idea)...

 

the poor performance over the 800m free by both is already only a bad memory...

[Agger 1,591]

Finally some Danish finals!

[heywoodu 13,560]

Positive doping test for Australian Shayna Jack, who pulled out of the world champs 'due to personal reasons' (uhuh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayna_Jack

 

Curious to see Horton's protest

[Joshi 91]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Positive doping test for Australian Shayna Jack, who pulled out of the world champs 'due to personal reasons' (uhuh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayna_Jack

 

Curious to see Horton's protest

The Chinese bots will be flooding her Instagram account now 

[dcro 10,182]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Positive doping test for Australian Shayna Jack, who pulled out of the world champs 'due to personal reasons' (uhuh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayna_Jack

 

Curious to see Horton's protest

 

Interesting. So pulling ahead of the championships should be treated equally as destroying evidence saying that you will "clear your name" after the championships?

[heywoodu 13,560]

Just now, Joshi said:

The Chinese bots will be flooding her Instagram account now 

Well yeah, and I'm assuming Australians are going to say it's probably a misunderstanding and/or not so bad.

[heywoodu 13,560]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Interesting. So pulling ahead of the championships should be treated equally as destroying evidence saying that you will "clear your name" after the championships?

 

Nope, but I am genuinely interested in how Horton is going to pick this up (and Lilly King for example), or will they only go all-out against the big bad China and Russia?

[Joshi 91]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Well yeah, and I'm assuming Australians are going to say it's probably a misunderstanding and/or not so bad.

They would because the media here will just brush it off as some kind of mistake. It clearly isn't a mistake. You kinda sensed something was up when she suddenly made herself unavailable. Not a good look for Australia either way.