Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[OlympicsFan 860]

11 minutes ago, Josh said:

Nemeth wasn’t even expected to get anywhere near the medals. I get you’re disappointed with how well the Olympics has been going for Hungary so far but c’mon. 

German swimmer Melvin Imodou missed gold in the 100 breast by 0.08 seconds, which is certainly worse.

[Federer91 3,122]

For years and years people said that Cesar Cielo's WR just can't be broken, when swimming was having a dozen WR at every big event.

 

All the gigantic Australian sprinters, that came in the past decade, Chalmers, McEvoy, Magnussen all came close, but didn't do it.

 

Caeleb Dressel in it's heyday, when he was a machine didn't brake it.

 

Until finally a boy from Romania barely, barely beat it after 13 years. 

 

And half hour ago it was 46.40 , i still have no words. 

 

It's like if they ran the 100m in 9.10-9.20 

[Vektor 3,326]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

World Championships bronze medalist in a depleted field. None of the top names were present. 
 

I get the disappointment being 0.01 off a medal, I’d feel the same way if it was one of our swimmers. Nemeth performed well, head up.  

This isn't just any medal. It's the medal of the 100 free, and not just any 100 free, this was a historic race. This will never happen again with a Hungarian swimmer in medal contention. 

 

Context matters. This will hurt a lot even if everything goes our way from now on.

[OlympicsFan 860]

Amazing night of swimming. One of the greatest sessions ever, Marchand with one of the greatest individual sessions ever and Pan with one of the greatest individual swims ever. Winning the most competitive event by 1 second is insane.

[intoronto 6,658]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That reminds me to ask @Sindo if it's somehow also possible to hide quotes with the otherwise amazing ignore function

 

Hide quotes?

[OlympicsFan 860]

Just now, Vektor said:

This isn't just any medal. It's the medal of the 100 free, and not just any 100 free, this was a historic race. This will never happen again with a Hungarian swimmer in medal contention. 

 

Context matters. This will hurt a lot even if everything goes our way from now on.

You sound like a drama queen. Milak could definitely contend for a medal in the 100 free in 2028. Maybe Padar as well (not sure if you rate the women’s event as highly). This was the first 100 free final for a German man in 32 years and I still loved it, although I might have to wait another 32 years for another chance to witness a German medal in this event.

[OlympicsFan 860]

Absolutely insane meet for Germany. Already 6 national records, maybe 3 more will follow (mixed medley relay, women’s 800 free and men’s 200 back).

If Gose‘s improvement in the 800 free translates, she could win a medal in the 800 free and maybe even break the European record (8:14.10) by Rebecca Adlington from the 2008 Olympics.

 

Edit: After day 5 Germany has already as many top 8 finishes as at the last 2 Olympics combined.

Edited July 31, 2024 by OlympicsFan

[Vektor 3,326]

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

You sound like a drama queen. Milak could definitely contend for a medal in the 100 free in 2028. Maybe Padar as well (not sure if you rate the women’s event as highly). This was the first 100 free final for a German man in 32 years and I still loved it, although I might have to wait another 32 years for another chance to witness a German medal in this event.

Milák will probably retire after these Games or at least I hope he will. I think he isn't enjoying any of this and not because he lost. He shouldn't continue if he will get even more burned out in the next 4 years. 

[Topicmaster1010 5,822]

This was a legendary swim session:

 

• The sprint GOAT  Sjöström finally gets her 2nd career Olympic gold, 8 years after her first one
•  Marchand gets his 1st gold medal in the 200m butterfly of the night beating the world record holder  Milak
• Arguably the female GOAT  Ledecky wins her 8th Olympic gold and 12th Olympic medal and now holds the top 20 times ever
•  Marchand completes the insane 200m butterfly-200m breaststroke double with yet another gold
•  Pan Zhanle smashes the 100m freestyle world record by 0.4 seconds to beat arguably the most stacked 100m freestyle field in history

Edited July 31, 2024 by Topicmaster1010

[heywoodu 16,279]

16 minutes ago, Vektor said:

This isn't just any medal. It's the medal of the 100 free, and not just any 100 free, this was a historic race. This will never happen again with a Hungarian swimmer in medal contention. 

 

Context matters. This will hurt a lot even if everything goes our way from now on.

Exactly. By the way, I had Nemeth down for 12% medal chance (for what it's worth, of course, it's only an opinion), it's not like Nemeth simply reaching the final would have been enough for him. Being this incredibly close is going to hurt him possibly for the rest of his career/life, and understandably so. I hope one day at least he'll also be proud of his performance, but the hurt likely won't just go away.