Summer RIO 2016 - Swimming (Pool Only) 6th to 13th Aug

[U2tigers]

I don't care about any of the bleeding hearts who say well done to our under performing swimmers.

They get the bulk of funding and fail miserably.

Its time to share the funding.

 

[JackNah_8]

How much funding does track and field get?

 

[U2tigers]

Also its so great our swimmers have been enjoying their experience so much, its all about the fun apparently.

So much fun, glad funds go for their enjoyment.

 

[JackNah_8]

Also its so great our swimmers have been enjoying their experience so much, its all about the fun apparently.

So much fun, glad funds go for their enjoyment.

not just the swimmers. I was watching the interview of the rowers who replaced the Russian team, after their lost one rower was happy she's in Rio and time to party now. Um ok.

 

[U2tigers]

pretty damning really

http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/as...72/2015-16_NSO-NSOD_Investment_Allocation.pdf

Hockey the other under performer

 

[Gavin Excell]

I don't care about any of the bleeding hearts who say well done to our under performing swimmers.

They get the bulk of funding and fail miserably.

Its time to share the funding.

Its actually a reasonable strategy to focus on swimming given there are so many golds on offer. Just putting aside the relative cheapness of them if winning gold medals is your aim, then yes swimming is where you should aim

 

[Gerry4]

I think the problem with swimming is it is too much of a boutique sport internationally for our swimmers to get the hardened edge they need for meets like this. Outside of Olympics, Pan Pacs and World Championships what is there? The fact we need to stage our own Micky Mouse "Grand Prix" six weeks before the most important meet for most of these athlete's lives says it all.

 

[JackNah_8]

pretty damning really

http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/as...72/2015-16_NSO-NSOD_Investment_Allocation.pdf

Hockey the other under performer

Swimming gets a lot of funding!

I didn't realise hockey receives that much funding considering our performance hasnt been the best.

 

[Gavin Excell]

pretty damning really

http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/as...72/2015-16_NSO-NSOD_Investment_Allocation.pdf

Hockey the other under performer

sailing gets a surprising level of love

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Looks like Kyle has a new nick name not King Kyle as dubbed by the advertiser

http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympi...r/news-story/84f3641b836f0f82c31e568c4f1de462
PORT Lincoln swim star Kyle Chalmers was told he could live life in the small pond of the AFL or become a “Big Tuna” on the world stage in swimming.

When Chalmers reached the crossroads of his sporting career in May last year, head swim coach Jacco Verhaeren had a blunt but effective message about where the multi-talented could take his life.
“There’s a certain point in your career where you have to choose. You can’t keep doing both,” Verhaeren said. “It was going through my mind ‘do you want to be AFL, a domestic star, or do you want to be a world star?’ I’m happy he chose the second one.”

http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympi...r/news-story/84f3641b836f0f82c31e568c4f1de462

 

[JackNah_8]

that hair is so bad, that's all I see in that photo lol

 

[Gerry4]

Probably more people follow AFL than they do swimming globally. But yeah Olympic Gold would be 100 times better than a possible but probably not AFL career.

 

[Whit3y]

are our swimmers back on the stillnox?

 

[GreyCrow]

that hair is so bad, that's all I see in that photo lol

Mug shot hair.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Hed do ok school social this year

 

[Gavin Excell]

Probably more people follow AFL than they do swimming globally. But yeah Olympic Gold would be 100 times better than a possible but probably not AFL career.

yep for sure

 

[imadodgyumpire]

In Rio Today. 200m backstroke replay. I respect Mitch Larkin's honesty. I'm glad he made up for missing out in the 100.

Good luck to the 4 eyed flog!

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

I don't know what you mean by often but I think you need to look at his record and here is a cut and paste from his Wiki age to prove your theory wrong. He didn't go to 2013 and 2015 world champs because he fell out of love with the sport in 2013 and had only just decided to return when trials were on for 2015. So apart from 2001 when he only swum in a couple of events he has dominated at 2003,2005,2007,2009,and 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps

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Look at his 7 minor medals - 2 were in relays where he depends on others and 2 were in the 200m which wasn't his pet event but he swum it in 2004 because he wanted to take on Thorpe and to a lesser extent Pieter vdHB and it meant he could do 8 in 2008.
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The other American Ryan Lochte beat him I think Four times in the Worlds but can't touch him at the games.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Idk why I put myself through watching that train wreck again?

 

[Allan Shorty]

So dropping McEvoy from the relay looks smart now. Whateley shot his mouth off.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Thelps 28 gold or whatever it is highlights how cheap swimming gold is

Medleys anyone?

What a joke

 

[Sydney Kicker]

sailing gets a surprising level of love

Expensive sport - not only the gear but locating the team in Rio for months getting used to the conditions. So we are generally competing against a smaller pool of first world nations and there's quite a few classes so quite a few medals available.

 

[Drummond]

So dropping McEvoy from the relay looks smart now. Whateley shot his mouth off.

What? He's not in great form, but we saw what he produced in the 4x1, and I think he would've lifted again in the 4x2. Less pressure in relays, because of the team environment. If Cam had swum the relay not only do I think we would've got silver, but I think he might've taken some confidence into his individual events too.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Expensive sport - not only the gear but locating the team in Rio for months getting used to the conditions. So we are generally competing against a smaller pool of first world nations and there's quite a few classes so quite a few medals available.

did we win more golds sailing than swimming London?

 

[Heisenberg_]

How much funding does track and field get?

I don't know but was a story about discuss thrower Benn Harradine going to his 3rd and last Olympics. His dad coaches him and quit his job as a teacher to go with him around the world, used his retirement fund and super to do it and estimates to get him to his first Olympics probably cost $500k