Swimming WA 25m World Championships 2024

[phelps 7,792]

  On 12/10/2024 at 10:21 PM, heywoodu said:

Any idea what makes the Budapest pool so fast by the way? I know in speed skating and track cycling altitude plays a role, for example, but isn't water...you know...water?  

 

I get that it has something to do with the pool and some kind of technology, that's obvious, but not really sure what it is that can make a pool 'faster'.

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it's about 2 main factors: first, the pool's size and shape (depth, width and also the gradient of the pool's sides -if the walls are perfectly vertical or not), which has an influence on the water mass movement following the swimmers' action (the more the walls can absorb the waves made by the swimmers, the faster they can go; meanwhile, the bigger the waves are, the more they slow the swimmers down); second, water hardness might also be a factor (less than the pool's technical features, but still) as in different Countries there might be different habits (if not laws) about the sanification of the water itself (for instance, here in Italy we use to put a lot of chlore in pools' water, more than in many other places)

 

environmental and water's temperature can also have an impact, but in the indoor events I think there's no big difference between places (and the water's temperature is standardized by FINA for sure)

 

altitude might also be a factor (as it is for all the aerobic efforts), but normally there are no swimming big events in high places, so it's more a chance than a real thing since the 1968 Olympics and the 1975 Worlds (which were held in  Cali)

[Topicmaster1010 4,439]

 USA missed the final in the mixed 4x50m relay 

 

Beat out by

[Topicmaster1010 4,439]

Commentators think  Georgian swimmer is from Equatorial Guinea 

[phelps 7,792]

  On 12/13/2024 at 8:23 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

 USA missed the final in the mixed 4x50m relay 

 

Beat out by

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meanwhile  Gretchen Walsh destroyed another WR (this time, the women's 100m Fly)

 

and she did it with a time that was bettered by just 1 guy after the first 3 heats of the corresponding male competition  

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[JoshMartini007 2,559]

  On 12/13/2024 at 9:11 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

Commentators think  Georgian swimmer is from Equatorial Guinea 

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To be fair, GEO and GEQ are pretty close

[Federer91 2,880]

Lol Hobson just broke Biederman's WR in the 200 free from 2009. 

[Topicmaster1010 4,439]

 Gretchen Walsh is absolutely insane! 3 individual golds and 5 individual World Records so far and I would imagine there'll be two more individual golds and a few more World Records yet to come. Completely in a league of her own.

[heywoodu 15,332]

Is this the first time (some) top swimmers are actually taking the short course world championships serious, or what?  

 

This is what I meant earlier in the year about the 'believability' of a sport  

[DJ Crimson Oracle 3]

  On 12/5/2024 at 10:29 AM, phelps said:

not that it's unexpected, but the list of Olympic champions/medallists missing this championship is starting to grow up too much 

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I think that some of the Olympic champions from the Paris Games were absent for the event

[Topicmaster1010 4,439]

50m Freestyle World Record for  Jordan Crooks!