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

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[heywoodu 13,633]

Down goes the hype train.

 

[Josh 6,716]

Richards wins gold in the men's 200m freestyle. 1:44.30.

 

 Popovici 4th. 

Edited July 25, 2023 by Josh

[Topicmaster1010 2,746]

Oh my goodness, Popovici off the podium!!!

 

I knew Richards was in good form but wasn't expecting him to take gold here

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Out of curiousity, is it 'Popovici', with the i being pronounced at the end, or 'Popovich', with the i not being pronounced?

It's pronounced like 'Popovich'

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Time for another episode of the Katie Ledecky show

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1 minute ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

It's pronounced like 'Popovich'

Interesting, thanks. I was wondering for a while, since the English-language commentators pronounce it that way all the time, but also English-language commentators are rather well-known for completely mispronouncing names  (not like having an accent, because that's normal, but messing up entire syllables and such)

 

Cool to see this time the English-language commentators are actually correct  

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7 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

It's pronounced like 'Popovich'

Thanks for this. I just presumed the Aussie commentators had been saying it wrong 

[Rafa Maciel 1,473]

Forst time watching the swimming action and quite impressed by the quality of the on-screen graphics. Strange how they can get it so right for swimming but couldn't manage it for open water or for artistic swimming.

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2 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Forst time watching the swimming action and quite impressed by the quality of the on-screen graphics. Strange how they can get it so right for swimming but couldn't manage it for open water or for artistic swimming.

The only thing to improve, but that will never happen anymore, is getting rid of the WR line, which takes away the tension one used to have about whether or not the WR would be broken