Swimming

[Shorty]

That's why I thought she was a chance in 50m tonight. The pressure was off because it couldn't really get any worse than losing that 100m final

Yeah I'm very disappointed with her 50.

 

[smi962]

I wonder how much in sponsorship oppounities this costs a Campbell, Mcevoy or Seebhom
Chalmers will be picking his pocket now

 

[DiegoNT]

It's not so much we don't have the likes of Hackett Thorpe etc, it's more Dissapointing that our swimmers are saving their worst for the finals.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Some of the reactions are way OTT....we just have to face that we don't have the like of Thorpe, Perkins, Hackett, Jones, etc at the moment. But we had two teenagers win gold, the Campbell sisters are still young and already very good swimmers, and there's a lot of young swimmers going ok. There's a future there for sure, even if this has been a relatively poor Olympics.

i don't think it is over the top

fact is we had multiple favourites in their events this olympics and each of those swimmers underwhelmed. It can't be a coincidence. One of those favourites broke a world record one month ago.
so we/they should be asking why? It is not surprising to see favourites or good swimmers bomb out in some events .... look at Missy Franklin these games or Sun Yang in the 1500m heats or even Adrian scraping into the 100m final. But for so many Australians to fail in the one meet just implies there is something wrong.

we were also lucky Kyle Chalmers got into the 100m final cause remember he just managed to get second by the skin of his teeth in the April trials (the swim that McEvoy dominated and looked amazing)

 

[smi962]

i don't think it is over the top

But for so many Australians to fail in the one meet just implies there is something wrong.

we were also lucky Kyle Chalmers got into the 100m final cause remember he just managed to get second by the skin of his teeth in the April trials (the swim that McEvoy dominated and looked amazing)

They have done it for the last 3 olympics

 

[hineyrulz]

More world championship golds for sure

And thats all that really matters.

 

[smi962]

Cate Campbell got us the silver at least

 

[Bazal]

That's more like it, great swim from Campbell to steal that silver medal

 

[Pete Cash]

She puts in a good relay 100

 

[Shorty]

F**k Cate where was this in your individuals???

 

[smi962]

Like to see the time

 

[smi962]

Seebhom swam a lot better also

 

[smi962]

Phelps last swim

 

[Shorty]

Good signs to build on but we need our swimmers to be tougher mentally somehow.

 

[smi962]

USA can't lose this.

 

[Frankus]

Like to see the time

Splits -

1 USA - United States of America 3:53.13 BAKER Kathleen 0.62 28.58 59.00 (4) 59.00 KING Lilly 0.50 30.49 1:05.70 (2) 2:04.70 VOLLMER Dana 0.24 25.68 56.00 (1) 3:00.70 MANUEL Simone 0.42 25.15 52.43 (1) 3:53.13
2 AUS - Australia 3:55.00 1.87 SEEBOHM Emily 0.61 28.75 58.83 (3) 58.83 McKEOWN Taylor 0.22 31.41 1:07.05 (7) 2:05.88 McKEON Emma 0.37 26.09 56.95 (6) 3:02.83 CAMPBELL Cate 0.31 24.80 52.17 (2) 3:55.00
3 DEN - Denmark 3:55.01 1.88 ER NIELSEN Mie 0.64 28.76 58.75 (1) 58.75 PEDERSEN Rikke Moller 0.31 30.96 1:06.62 (3) 2:05.37 OTTESEN Jeanette 0.30 26.16 56.43 (2) 3:01.80 BLUME Pernille 0.41 25.61 53.21 (3) 3:55.01
4 CHN - People's Republic of China 3:55.18 2.05 FU Yuanhui 0.59 29.16 59.53 (7) 59.53 SHI Jinglin 0.31 30.98 1:06.00 (4) 2:05.53 LU Ying 0.03 26.17 56.49 (4) 3:02.02 ZHU Menghui 0.20 25.36 53.16 (4) 3:55.18
5 CAN - Canada 3:55.49 2.36 MASSE Kylie 0.58 28.66 58.77 (2) 58.77 NICOL Rachel 0.20 31.24 1:06.81 (5) 2:05.58 OLEKSIAK Penny -0.01 26.15 56.75 (5) 3:02.33 Van LANDEGHEM Chantal 0.23 25.18 53.16 (5) 3:55.49
6 RUS - Russian Federation 3:55.66 2.53 FESIKOVA Anastasiia 0.70 29.02 59.49 (6) 59.49 EFIMOVA Yulia 0.25 30.60 1:04.98 (1) 2:04.47 CHIMROVA Svetlana 0.32 26.24 57.54 (3) 3:02.01 POPOVA Veronika 0.25 25.86 53.65 (6) 3:55.66
7 GBR - Great Britain 3:56.96 3.83 DAVIES Georgia 0.63 28.99 59.43 (5) 59.43 TUTTON Chloe 0.04 31.26 1:06.43 (6) 2:05.86 O'CONNOR Siobhan-Marie 0.26 26.76 57.47 (7) 3:03.33 HALSALL Francesca 0.52 25.67 53.63 (7) 3:56.96
8 ITA - Italy 3:59.50 6.37 ZOFKOVA Carlotta 0.78 29.97 1:01.29 (8) 1:01.29 CASTIGLIONI Arianna 0.29 31.06 1:06.65 (8) 2:07.94 BIANCHI Ilaria 0.28 26.68 58.21 (8) 3:06.15 PELLEGRINI Federica 0.02 25.40 53.35 (8) 3:59.50

 

[hineyrulz]

They all swam much faster then in their individual swims, maybe we should somehow hypnotise them all and make them think every race is a relay????

 

[Frankus]

USA can't lose this.

Well they have a 100% win rate in this event, so yeah I agree with you.

 

[smi962]

Campbell would have easily won the individual event with that

 

[Frankus]

No she wouldn't have - she is notoriously slow off the blocks. Add 0.4-0.5 to her split and she was right with the winners.