Summer Olympic Sports in between Olympics thread.

[dantm]

They still havent added/adjusted the 7th (Womens 200m IM)

Summer McIntosh Skipping 200 IM at World Championships; Focused On Four Solo Events

Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh is not on the entry lists for the 200-meter individual medley for the World Championships in Fukuoka.

www.swimmingworldmagazine.com

 

[dantm]

Swimswam has now fixed up the 200IM and added both womens 4x200 free and 100m backstroke.
Australia predicted at 9 Gold currently but still awaiting the womens 100m free preview.
Apparently Cam McEvoy has agreed to swim the relay!

 

[AdelaideGT]

Lots of Aussie athletes competing this weekend - in Spain, Italy, Poland and the US besides the London Diamond League. It's one of the last opportunities to shore up World Champs qualification.

Last night in Monaco, Nicola Olyslagers remained on top of the world while Jess Hull smashed the NR for the mile, behind Faith Kipyegon's amazing WR.

 

[Beejay Crow]

Cassiel Rousseau just won 10m platform diving at the World Championships to prevent a Chinese clean sweep. Shades of 2008 Olympics with Matthew Mitcham.

 

[AdelaideGT]

He was good at the Comm Games but didn't think he would challenge for a world medal. And it was a high standard final too.

And at just 23, he has good chances of the next two Olympics.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Cassiel Rousseau just won 10m platform diving at the World Championships to prevent a Chinese clean sweep. Shades of 2008 Olympics with Matthew Mitcham.

Pretty disappointing I haven't seen anything on the sports shows this morning. I missed the start of the swimming coverage by about 45 minutes so it might have been mentioned there and shown vision.

Unlike Mitcham who "stole" gold with a near perfect dive and an unbelievable score - highest ever at the Olympics at that stage, Rousseau won with good solid dives rather than a knock out punch like Mitcham did in 2008.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Sam Short did a PB to qualify fastest for tonight's 400m. Winnington was 7th fastest.

 

[AdelaideGT]

Australia in with a decent shot at 4 Gold Medals in Fukuoka tonight. Men's & Women's 400 Free & Men's & Women's 4x100 Free.

And then the London Diamond League for our field & track stars.

I think I might have to nap this arvo to prepare for a big night of Olympic sports.

PS - Yes Rousseau got a brief mention in the early part of today's 9 coverage.

 

[toxic]

Australia in with a decent shot at 4 Gold Medals in Fukuoka tonight. Men's & Women's 400 Free & Men's & Women's 4x100 Free.

And then the London Diamond League for our field & track stars.

I think I might have to nap this arvo to prepare for a big night of Olympic sports.

PS - Yes Rousseau got a brief mention in the early part of today's 9 coverage.

Poms being DQed in the 4x100 certainly helps

 

[AdelaideGT]

This will be some race with Arnie, Ledecky and McIntosh.

Canadian & US fans have been screaming for months 'Summer is unbeatable' or 'Katie is back to her best' plus 'Titmus has no chance'.

Even today, with her easy swim to 2nd fastest qualifier, many are saying she can do no better than bronze tonight.

I confess I will have a big smile if I get to throw some of these quotes back at them in a few hours.

 

[toxic]

What time AEST?

Coverage starts at 9pm

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

what a final 15m by Sam Short. New World champion. 1.5 sec PB improvement..

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That 400m final produced the 7th and 8th fastest 400m times.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The official Omega Timing Live Results page where you can find PDF's with splits.

All World Aquatics Championships Results By OMEGA

See and download the live World Aquatics Championships complete results officially timed by OMEGA.

www.omegatiming.com

World Aquatics rankings page where you adjust for gender, distance stroke, pool length (long/short) and date. Advanced Filters + area lets you change dates if don't want all time results. Link set at Men's 400m Freestyle.

World Aquatics

The official website of World Aquatics

www.worldaquatics.com

 

[danielnajdek]

Here we go. I think Summer will win.

 

[danielnajdek]

WOW

 

[Donakebab]

What a monster of a swim from Arnie!

 

[Beejay Crow]

Arnie. WOW!!

 

[Allezjuel]

WOW

Arnie smashed em, new world record!

 

[two blue tiger]

Arnie - you superstar!!!!!

 

[danielnajdek]

Arnie smashed em, new world record!

Yeah she slaughtered them. Summer was disappointing. She faded hard in the last 50.

 

[two blue tiger]

what a final 15m by Sam Short. New World champion. 1.5 sec PB improvement..

Olympic champ in second place just 0.02 behind. Epic event

 

[two blue tiger]

Short hopefully can erase Biedermann’s super suit 3.40.08 (0.01 better than Thorpe’s “true” WR) soon.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Arnie too good. WR

Think McIntosh might have peaked in March. At 16 might be tough to peak twice in 4 months. She looked so so in the heat, but I thought she was saving herself for tonight.

That swim by Ledecky was her 9th fastest. Half a second slower than her win in Budapest world champs last year. Titmus skipped them for the comm games.