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Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024


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28 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Leon the lion :hatoff: The third man to get 4 individual Gold medals at a single Olympics after Mark Spitz and the 5 for Michael Phelps of course.

 

:GDR Kristin Otto is the only woman to do that as well (only mentioned to post the DDR flag :p ).

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5 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Are detalis about her collapse known?

Great to hear she's ok!

she is an asthmatic, after her effort she had a sudden severe asthma attack, she obviously didn´t have her medicine with her in the pool and collapsed, the paramedics came at the right time

 

The rhing I can not understand is which idiot put her in the same heat with all the likes of McIntosh etc... An Universality swimmer, she had only one goal in her mind, not being humiliated by them and thus went absolute full gaz, if you rewatch the heat, she was even leading after the butterfly leg, but then obviously started to fade completelly and last 50 meters ... yeah, she almost died in the pool... Thanks god she is safe

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12 hours ago, Sub13 said:

USA is the obvious choice. Australia has 1 very strong chance left (Kaylee 200 back), 1 solid chance (McEvoy 50 free), 1 toss up (Kaylee 200IM) and a few outside chances (Mixed medley, Titmus 800, Temple??).

 

USA has probably 8 solid chances left with 3 of them being heavy favourites. 
 

So while Australia is possible it will basically take a miracle. We need to convert every single chance and hope USA gets upset in a heavy favourite 

The United States needs 3 more gold medals to catch up with Australia and take the lead, and there are 10 events left. In these 10 events at the last Games, the USA won 4 and Australia won 2. So, it's still possible for the USA to finish first, but it's going to be very tough.

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27 minutes ago, intoronto said:

How did World Aquatics approve all 3 medley relays being held on the same day?

I don't think it's too bad. Men's and women's medley relay prelims are in the morning and the mixed medley relay final is at night. A swimmer would have a maximum of one morning and one evening swim which is normal.

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On 8/1/2024 at 6:49 AM, Federer91 said:

46.40 !! :hairpull:  The commentator here is saying it's the greatest swim of the past 50 years. 

 

Absolutely astronomical time.

I'm hoping this will cause a shift back to flatter freestyle technique after Phelps' success caused many coaches the world over to teach loping freestyle.

 

11 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Marchand was SOOOO CLOSE to world record :hyper:

He'll get it next time he swims in a fast pool. Problem is unless the Worlds schedule changes he'll have to choose between the 200 breast and 200 IM.

 

11 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Dressel is shockingly bad. Already suspected on day 1 in the relay, that he is not in a good form. If they hadn't given him such a big lead, the Americans would have lost that relay with him on the final leg. 

His form isn't that bad but he doesnt have the aerobic fitness he had before so can't handle a heavy schedule with a heap of doubles like he did in the past. Now he'll rest until the medley relay so will be able to put up a big fly split there.

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