Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019

[orangeman 2,877]

Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

 

There's only so much the women can do, we were last after the men went.

 

Yup.  With respect to our whole team, can't do much with the state of the men's program as it is.  

[orangeman 2,877]

But Canada looking good for the women's medley relay tomorrow.  Got the gold medalists in the back and fly, bronze medalist in the breast (if they go with Pickrem) and the defending Olympic champion in the free who just had the fastest time in this relay.  

[orangeman 2,877]

4 minutes ago, orangeman said:

 

Yup.  With respect to our whole team, can't do much with the state of the men's program as it is.  

Ruck also had the 6th fastest time on her leg.  Not exactly impressive.  She has not had a great meet.  

[orangeman 2,877]

1 minute ago, orangeman said:

Ruck also had the 6th fastest time on her leg.  Not exactly impressive.  She has not had a great meet.  

Sanchez had a faster time in qualifications (by 0.02, but still, Ruck is supposed to be the next star).  

[thiago_simoes 1,460]

3 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Mixed relays are useless gimmick. It's only a reason to give the power house nations more chances to win easy medals

I disagree. I think it's important to have more team events in traditionally individual sports because this fosters partnership between athletes in the same nation. They are a team, not rivals, and this makes a huge difference. The more events we have like this, the more they will act, train and compete as a team. Besides, there's nothing wrong with providing more medal chances to the best programs in the world. I wish we had more team events in artistic gymnastics, for example.

[Monzanator 5,136]

Just now, thiago_simoes said:

I disagree. I think it's important to have more team events in traditionally individual sports because this fosters partnership between athletes in the same nation. They are a team, not rivals, and this makes a huge difference. The more events we have like this, the more they will act, train and compete as a team. Besides, there's nothing wrong with providing more medal chances to the best programs in the world. I wish we had more team events in artistic gymnastics, for example.

 

They're spending enough time together without the gimmick mixed relays Add the NCAA programmes and all that crap and I'm surprised there's not more beef among them. It must be tiresome to hang around the same people time and time again for well over 10 years tbh    Adding team events in individual sports is useless, it's as overrated as Ryder Cup in golf.

[JoshMartini007 2,871]

Relays are fine, but the mixed 4x100m relays are a bit redundant, especially the freestyle one, either have gendered or mixed. I think it would be more interesting to have 4x50m relays or perhaps a 4x200m medley relay

[AlFHg 330]

21 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

4x200m medley relay

Where is the petition for signing?

[OlympicsFan 860]

5 hours ago, phelps said:

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...

Wellbrock is still not at his best, i think Paltrinieri will break the world record and win by at least 10 seconds, Christiansen should win silver. Next year will be a completely different story though.

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

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?

It's not like this is the first famous australian swimmer getting caught in the last couple of years. As far as i know Horton didn't say anything about them, but of course those cases are nowhere near as bad as Sun Yang's case.