Summer Paris 2024 - Swimming

[pepsi]

If you think it's only Australians questioning the Chinese swimmer, you'd be mistaken.

In what is being stated as not a fast pool, yet here he is smashing a hotly contested field in a WR time that beggars belief.

 

[Kram]

I’m so sleep deprived. Reckon OK if I just get up for the 4x200 at 6am? Nothing else I might miss in terms of Aussie gold.

Cmon in wa I got up at 2.30 this morning!

 

[Drummond]

Why was there was a Swisse swimmer in a heat otherwise filled with guys from small African countries with (presumably) incredibly limited swim programs?

Might not even need to if Perkins has jumped in too soon.

 

[catstorm]

Perkins has really made me nervous here. I had the same thought as Nicole and then she mentioned it. Oh boy.

It was just so ****ing unnecessary, you would sit there until she actually touched the damn wall.

 

[GreyCrow]

If you think it's only Australians questioning the Chinese swimmer, you'd be mistaken.

In what is being stated as not a fast pool, yet here he is smashing a hotly contested field in a WR time that beggars belief.

What time would he have posted in a ''record pool''

 

[fuic08]

Ironic isnt it? No country does it better than Australia. Right up there with the Brits.
Maybe every time Australia wins a game of cricket we should all question if sandpaper was being used.
In general Australians love shi##ing on other countries to make themselves feel better. It's an embarassing insecurity. Like an ignored toddler crying out for attention.

Didnt they have more than 20 test positive last Olympics?

 

[Kram]

Cam McEvoy taking out the 50 would just about make the games for me.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

The swimming on a bit of a delay on 9 I see.

While I won't spoil the results of the 4x200 qualifier, I will confirm that Australia is not a DQ.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Perkins has a reaction time of 0.03 seconds going off the results.

 

[Hojuman]

Didnt they have more than 20 test positive last Olympics?

23 before the Tokyo games.

 

[Xtreme]

The swimming on a bit of a delay on 9 I see.

While I won't spoil the results of the 4x200 qualifier, I will confirm that Australia is not a DQ.

Spoiler

Shayna Jack having the slowest time ? Hope she's not in the final itself!!

 

[melanChronic]

With our b team having 7 seconds on the rest of the field (and the gold and silver medalist still in the kit bag) surely the coaches could tell them to chill a bit with the changeovers.

 

[gbear]

With our b team having 7 seconds on the rest of the field (and the gold and silver medalist still in the kit bag) surely the coaches could tell them to chill a bit with the changeovers.

You would think so. Dicing with Disqualification.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Perkins has a reaction time of 0.03 seconds going off the results.

On the world feed Nicole said that Lani had taken an extra half stroke rather than lunge for the wall which caused Perkins to mistime it.

On the Aussie feed Rooney and Thorpe oblivious.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

On the world feed Nicole said that Lani had taken an extra half stroke rather than lunge for the wall which caused Perkins to mistime it.

On the Aussie feed Rooney and Thorpe oblivious.

Apologies to Thorpe - he saw but just didn't say anything. Wouldn't want to excite the fans.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Spoiler

Shayna Jack having the slowest time ? Hope she's not in the final itself!!

That's a bit unfair. I'm sure Shayna switched off on purpose. The last 100 she looked like she was in the warmdown pool.

 

[Drummond]

RussellEbertHandball I know it’s a little way away, but what are your thoughts as to how our 4x100 mixed medley team is shaping up? Kaylee, Yong, McKeon, Chalmers?

 

[Sydney Kicker]

If you think it's only Australians questioning the Chinese swimmer, you'd be mistaken.

In what is being stated as not a fast pool, yet here he is smashing a hotly contested field in a WR time that beggars belief.

I don't really feel like giving them the benefit of the doubt in the pool of public opinion. It's not about Pan. It's about the Chinese dopers that have come before and the contaminated food thing. Too many prior incidents.

 

[Wickzki]

When something out of the ordinary happens can't they see it would raise an eyebrow?

It's a cultural difference.

The Chinese have a very win-at-all-costs culture. It doesn't matter how they win as long as they do so. In this philosophy, they're not doing anything wrong.

In most Western cultures we have a win-the-right-way attitude.

Philosophically, we are opposed.

 

[Phil McCreviss]

Didnt they have more than 20 test positive last Olympics?

And Pan isn't one. Maybe Chalmers was just not good enough. That would be too hard for the salty racists though.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

RussellEbertHandball I know it’s a little way away, but what are your thoughts as to how our 4x100 mixed medley team is shaping up? Kaylee, Yong, McKeon, Chalmers?

Based on past, unless you have a really dominate swimmer in one of legs eg Adam Peaty ast his best is so much better than every one else and the differential a female slotted in somewhere else gives, the trend tends to be W, M, M, F

So Oz that would be Kaylee, BZC, Temple, MOC

I think China will use Pan for their leg. Dressel swum for the yanks in Tokyo but it didn't work they finished 5th.

The coaches have to sit down and work on the differentials. In Tokyo the 3 medalists went W, M, M, W.

Swimswam did an article on it I will try and dig it up soon.

 

[catstorm]

RussellEbertHandball I know it’s a little way away, but what are your thoughts as to how our 4x100 mixed medley team is shaping up? Kaylee, Yong, McKeon, Chalmers?

Nah I would go ZSC even if it is 100.

 

[catstorm]

And Pan isn't one. Maybe Chalmers was just not good enough. That would be too hard for the salty racists though.

Chinese isn’t a race you dumb campaigner, it’s a nationality.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Nah I would go ZSC even if it is 100.

Yeah my bad ZSC should do the breastroke as he did at both Tokyo and 2023 World champs.

 

[getthefooty]

Based on past, unless you have a really dominate swimmer in one of legs eg Adam Peaty ast his best is so much better than every one else and the differential a female slotted in somewhere else gives, the trend tends to be W, M, M, F

So Oz that would be Kaylee, BZC, Temple, MOC

I think China will use Pan for their leg. Dressel swum for the yanks in Tokyo but it didn't work they finished 5th.

The coaches have to sit down and work on the differentials. In Tokyo the 3 medalists went W, M, M, W.

Swimswam did an article on it I will try and dig it up soon.

Makes sense, given I assume (without having done any maths or analysis) that there is a bigger differential between M and W for the slower strokes.