Olympic Swimming thread - Tokyo games

hillstrubl

hillstrubl

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I'm not sure how into Olympic swimming this community collectively is, but this was probably the most amazing individual finish in history.

To put in perspective. Finke (a distance swimmer) finished the last 50 of an 800 meter race at 26.39. Michael Andrew (a sprinter and current #1 in the 200IM) finishes his last 50 of only a 200 meter race usually around 30.00.
NOBODY finishes an 800 free like that. This harps back to (and maybe surpasses) Jason Lezak's anchor leg of the men's 400 free relay in Bejing, aka the greatest race of all time. I was SCREAMING watching this the other night.

My wife (former SPRINTER) "THATS HOW YOU FINISH A RACE!"
Me (former distance) "HE SHOULD HAVE GONE OUT HARDER!"
haha

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Also Lydia Jacoby (17 year old who won the women's 100 breaststroke) doesn't even train in a 50 meter pool. Her win was absolutely solid.
Katie Ledecky's 1500 free and 800 free relay anchor leg, epic.
Caeleb Dressel's 100 free, amazing.

I love Olympic years when my sport finally gets recognition :)
 
ctflyfish

ctflyfish

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I have been more tuned into swimming this year more than ever before, and certainly more that Gymnastics . I watched the Fink race and it was an unreal finish, but I think Lydia Jacoby is actually more impressive given that she is a high school athlete from Alaska with one pool that's 25 yards and trains with the local high school team where she attends.

Either way, It's been awesome so far and this is coming from someone who has zero swimming background.
 
uc4me

uc4me

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Truly incredible. I was a 50 and 100 sprinter in both the free and fly strokes and easily recall dragging my arse to those 6am workouts getting in that cold pool.

We all love a come from behind win but I can't begin to put into words what I was watching. I so admire Olympic swimmers because they are all sooo good but this.. this was outstanding. USA!
 
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