Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

[OlympicsFan 858]

Overall the level in womens 400 free was pretty bad, but its nice to see younger girls performaning at their best here. I think either Li or Titmus will win a medal. Weird to not see girls like Kapas, Carlin, Friis or Ashwood in this.

[dcro 10,210]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Swimming not showing things like PB/NR/SB etc in the results definitely is something they're still behind on compared to athletics. There's not even PB's in the start lists, that just sucks.

 

Instead of such usefull marks, they filled the screen this time with a bunch of useless graphics.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Instead of such usefull marks, they filled the screen this time with a bunch of useless graphics.

Exactly! +0.1m, showing someone is 10 centimeters behind, come on, we're not blind  (and if we were, those graphics would not be very useful anyway)

 

It's sad to see swimming is so far behind other sports with these kind of things. 

[phelps 7,677]

Julio Maglione (81) is still the FINA President...

with some "magic" in the whole procedure, the elections that took place earlier today also designated Husain Al Musallam as vice-president...

to be noticed that Al Musallam is also president of the Asian Olympic Committees Association and involved in many scandals (there's a video where he tried to get money from a potential Chinese sponsor, another procedure in the US where he's charged with attempted corruption of a soccer referee and other major and minor issues always about corruption here and there)...

moreover, FINA reinstated Vladimir Salnikov among their Bureau members (Salnikov is deeply involved in the Russian State Doping affair)...

what a wonderful and transparent future is ahead of all swimmers and swimming fans throughout the entire world...

Edited July 23, 2017 by phelps

[Mkbw50 438]

Ah, thank goodness there are fresh new faces here to shaken up the sport and bring in innovative ideas.

[dcro 10,210]

16 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Ah, thank goodness there are fresh new faces here to shaken up the sport and bring in innovative ideas.

 

[Gianlu33 4,574]

16 minutes ago, phelps said:

Julio Maglione (81) is still the FINA President...

with some "magic" in the whole procedure, the elections that took place earlier today also designated Husain Al Musallam as vice-president...

to be noticed that Al Musallam is also president of the Asian Olympic Committees Association and involved in many scandals (there's a video where he tried to get money from a potential Chinese sponsor, another procedure in the US where he's charged with attempted corruption of a soccer referee and other major and minor issues always about corruption here and there)...

moreover, FINA reinstated Vladimir Salnikov among their Bureau members (Salnikov is deeply involved in the Russian State Doping affair)...

what a wonderful and transparent future is ahead of all swimmers and swimming fans throughout the entire world...

Well, the alternative was Barelli. I can understend the FINA delegates  Only joke, maybe  

[Gianlu33 4,574]

12 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Ah, thank goodness there are fresh new faces here to shaken up the sport and bring in innovative ideas.

C'mon they do it, they change the name to syncronized swimming 

Edited July 23, 2017 by Gianlu33

[heywoodu 15,145]

35 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

C'mon they do it, they change the name to syncronized swimming 

No, they changed it to artistic swimming

 

Which makes just as much sense as synchronized swimming, by the way, so no problem with that. 

Edited July 23, 2017 by heywoodu

[Mkbw50 438]

They should rename it "Not in the Olympics" so the IOC don't have a choice