Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[bestmen 2,904]

Btw Turkyie didn't show anything until now 

[bestmen 2,904]

The same winners all the time , they know how to  cheat 

[Biathlonfan 792]

Tetrekova placing 5th in 200 metres is much better than i expected.

[Topicmaster1010 5,359]

6 days in and still no individual gold medals for American or Australian men

Edited August 1, 2024 by Topicmaster1010

[hckošice 15,525]

Team Slovakia

Day 6

THURSDAY 01.08.2024

 

Swimming M 50m Freestyle Heats

Heat 6/10

39. Matej Duša  22.64 (8th in Heat 6)

Eliminated in Heats

 

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

38 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

6 days in and still no individual medals for American or Australian men

Bobby Finke won silver for  in the men’s 800m.

[Topicmaster1010 5,359]

40 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

Bobby Finke won silver for  in the men’s 800m.

Whoops, I meant individual gold medals

[Makedonas 2,239]

4 hours ago, Josh said:

Couldn’t hang on for gold on the last 50m, but an excellent silver for  Christou

 

@Makedonas @maestro @Ted

Thank you! His main event is the 100 backstroke, and I think he knew the only way he could win a medal here was to go all out and treat it like a 100 backstroke and that's why he started to run out of gas at the end but the strategy definitely worked! So happy for him especially after his heartbreaking 4th place in the 100 the other day. He really deserved this!

 

And he takes the NR back from Siskos who was eliminated in the semifinals unfortunately.

[Makedonas 2,239]

4 hours ago, George_D said:

btw this is the first medal of in swimming since 1896 (first modern Olympics in Athens)

Well technically Gianniotis won silver in 2016 but that was in open water, but this is the first Greek swimming medal ever in a pool, as the 1896 swimming events took place in the sea 

 

Kind of crazy we had won water polo (not that surprising because we're good) and diving (!!!) medals in a pool before a swimming medal 

 

Honestly Greek swimming really deserved this. We have quietly improved a lot in recent years, and we now have a lot of good swimmers. We joked about becoming a new swimming powerhouse at the European Championships because so many big names were missing, but honestly many of our swimmers' times there were really strong and they would've won medals in "normal" years anyways. We are still far from a powerhouse obviously but it's a step in the right direction! I hope we continue to improve!

 

Also Gkolomeev into another Olympic final for us 

[George_D 1,473]

2 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Also Gkolomeev into another Olympic final for us 

we also have 4 finals in Rowing, the 3 tomorrow at noon !!! get prepared the flags!