Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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6 hours ago, Dkats said:

Damnnnnnn that was closer than I thought it would be 

Still the second fastest performance all time. 

 

6 hours ago, Dkats said:

Dream day for Australia 

 

I love this 

 

Dream day needed gold in the men's 400 but still an awesome day! I'm just a bit bummed about the times.

 

6 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

I will go on about it until doping is eradicated. 

Doping will never be eradicated not even in your own country or anywhere else.

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7 hours ago, Dkats said:

That time by Chalmers has me so excited for the 100 now. Faster than pan 

He had a flying start Pan flat start 

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7 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

How much is China paying you? 

Nothing sadly. The obvious stupidity of people who think that British or American athletes are any cleaner than Chinese athletes just disgusts me.

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6 hours ago, Olympicsnell said:

disclaimer for anyone thinking about clicking this a) its a terrible article and b) actually offers nothing about chinese swimmers being ignored other than a dutch person celebrated with another dutch swimmer, shock horror. 

im still uncertain if orangehair didnt write this drivel himself 
 

I see that you weren’t familiar with the work of the Guardian before …

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4 hours ago, dullard said:

Still the second fastest performance all time. 

 

 

Dream day needed gold in the men's 400 but still an awesome day! I'm just a bit bummed about the times.

 

Doping will never be eradicated not even in your own country or anywhere else.

Titmus, Ledecky and Fairweather were all almost exactly 2 seconds slower than their best time this year. McIntosh on the other hand went a best time, so she seems to be in a better shape than at trials. The same is true for Gose (and Madden) who set a German record. I think in a „normal“ pool Märtens and Titmus both would have been at least very close to the world record. I think the women‘s times would have been something like:

Titmus 3:55

McIntosh 3:56

Ledecky: 3:58

Fairweather 3:59 low

Gose/Madden 3:59 high/4:00 low

Still surprising that Gose (and Madden) were so close to Ledecky and Fairweather.

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18 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Titmus, Ledecky and Fairweather were all almost exactly 2 seconds slower than their best time this year. McIntosh on the other hand went a best time, so she seems to be in a better shape than at trials. The same is true for Gose (and Madden) who set a German record. I think in a „normal“ pool Märtens and Titmus both would have been at least very close to the world record. I think the women‘s times would have been something like:

Titmus 3:55

McIntosh 3:56

Ledecky: 3:58

Fairweather 3:59 low

Gose/Madden 3:59 high/4:00 low

Still surprising that Gose (and Madden) were so close to Ledecky and Fairweather.

Gonna be interesting to see how the pool affects the 200 because Mollie's relay lead off was in line with her performances earlier this year so even if she might've been faster in a better pool she wasn't slower while Titmus was slower. It seems like not everyone is affected by a "slow pool" to the same degree.

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4 hours ago, dullard said:

 

 

Dream day needed gold in the men's 400 but still an awesome day! I'm just a bit bummed about the times.

 

 

True but I think there’s cause for optimism in other events now that we didn’t have pre night one, such as men’s 100 (chalmers at trials was a fluke), Titmus maybe challenging in 800, and ZSC maybe being able to challenge if Qin is in poor form.

 

The main thing that has gone worse for us is the medley relay because of Williamson  

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Forgot to mention yesterday, that Dressel didn't look convincing to me at all. The US had a gigantic lead before him and by the end Chalmers and Frigo had slashed a good chunk of it. Don't know, if he relaxed by the end, but i have my suspicions.

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1 hour ago, Dkats said:

True but I think there’s cause for optimism in other events now that we didn’t have pre night one, such as men’s 100 (chalmers at trials was a fluke), Titmus maybe challenging in 800, and ZSC maybe being able to challenge if Qin is in poor form.

 

The main thing that has gone worse for us is the medley relay because of Williamson  

Good point. I still think Pan will need to regress back up to the 47s for Chalmers to win but his stocks have definitely risen and I think the wavey pool might actually suit him although Pan doesn't seem to have too much trouble with it either.

 

They're probably gonna have to use ZSC in the relays if he's looking good in the 200. In Tokyo he produced a couple of pretty solid splits but he's been quite unreliable since.

Edited July 28, 2024 by dullard

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3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Forgot to mention yesterday, that Dressel didn't look convincing to me at all. The US had a gigantic lead before him and by the end Chalmers and Frigo had slashed a good chunk of it. Don't know, if he relaxed by the end, but i have my suspicions.

Why would he relax? He's got four days off until his next race. He usually gets a bit faster as a meet progresses but that was the old Dressel so I'm not sure that'll happen this time.