Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

[Werloc 3,171]

49 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

@Werloc You said Meilutyte had been in a depression and such, is there also something known about drug (ab)use and the likes? I don't mean in a doping sense, but 'recreational', so to say.

 

Femke Heemskerk mentioned that on TV, but I couldn't find anything about it  

I don't believe that is commonly known information, but let's just say she had a really really bad time when she transferred to the US.

 

I'm happy she's out of there and healthy back in Lithuania. Right now she's training with our recently retired former butterfly specialist Duškinas, who kinda fucked his career at the States as well  

[Josh 10,661]

Bronze, and Olympic Quota in the women's 4x100m medley relay for  

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[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

So at the end of the competition, the status of relay qualification for Paris is: 

 

 

 

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[orangeman 2,002]

What a finish for bronze for Canada!

[Topicmaster1010 4,252]

1 minute ago, Rafa Maciel said:

So at the end of the competition, the status of relay qualification for Paris is: 

 

Great work but the mixed free relay isn't in the olympics

[Josh 10,661]

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Gold- United States  (3:52.08)

Silver- Australia  (3:53.37)

Bronze- Canada  (3:54.12) 

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

3 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Great work but the mixed free relay isn't in the olympics

Damn those spoil-sports 

[Oldira 88]

5 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

So at the end of the competition, the status of relay qualification for Paris is: 

 

have two squads in 13th place. Am I optimistic in reckoning it’s unlikely 4 teams from outside the top 16 pass them?

[OlympicsFan 859]

Surprising bronze for Canada, i thought that China would take it. Kind of depressing for the other countries that Canada wins bronze without having a decent breast/free leg.

[OlympicsFan 859]

Sad to see that Germany is in a good position to qualify many relays. Both the german swimming and athletics federation are using the completely wrong strategy (if their goal is/would be to improve their athletes). They should only nominate relays if they are really competitive (if 4 athletes have the individual standard or if the average of the 4 fastest athletes is faster than the individual standard). It is even worse in athletics, where you often only have to be the 6th fastest athlete (100 m or 400 m) to qualify, while other athletes (for example in long jump) have to be among the absolute best in the world to qualify. This strategy "destroys the market". If athletes see that they can get their reward that easily if they focus on the "relay distances", they won't switch to other distances (100/400 m hurdles/200 m) where they might have the chance to rank higher internationally (but a smaller chance to qualify, since those distances don't have relays). You are basically preventing the "most efficient distribution of resources" by this nomination policy. GB is chosing the right strategy and it has been paying off (Men's 4 x 100/200 free relay, apparently now women's 4 x 200 free relay as well). I guess Germany can't do this because then it would become even more apparent what a horrible job the coaches are doing (Less relays = Less qualified athletes, no relays = no reason to have specific training camps for relays in warm countries during pre-season ...), so they can't/won't change the policy because they would hurt themselves.

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