Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023 Road to Paris 2024

[Jinzha 552]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

First outing under 4:00 for  Fairweather, moves her to #5 on the all-time list.

I was just looking at the results and wondering how fast they actually were, with multiple superstars in the same event almost make you forget how insanely fast even the 3rd fastest time is!

[Federer91 2,206]

Any reason Peaty isn't here?

[orangeman 1,419]

5 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

It's juts the first event.  Now if people expected her to win 6 golds ala Phelps, then yeah, it might be a disappointment.

I expected her to put up a fight. I'm not trying to go at her personally, she's 16 and I'm sitting in my livingroom.  But as a Canadian sports fan you just learn to live with the disappointments. We get more 4th+5th places than 1st+2nd+3rds every major event. Favourites, underdogs, comebacks, out of nowhere.  We just get used to it.  

[Josh 6,676]

Women's 400m Freestyle

 

Gold- Ariane Titmus  (3:55.38) WR!

Silver- Katie Ledecky  (3:58.78) 

Bronze- Erika Fairweather  (3:59.59)

[Topicmaster1010 2,732]

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Any reason Peaty isn't here?

He's been having some mental health struggles

[Vektor 3,196]

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Any reason Peaty isn't here?

Same reason why Milák isn't here, mental health problems. 

[Josh 6,676]

6 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Any reason Peaty isn't here?

Mental health.

[Federer91 2,206]

So the 3 biggest male stars - Dressel, Peaty and Milak all have mental problems... Usually being the best at something prevents these things, but maybe that is my thought.

[Topicmaster1010 2,732]

 57.82 for Qin. Gonna be hard to beat him tomorrow

[Josh 6,676]

57.82 AR for  Haiyang in the men's 100m breaststroke SFs!