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

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In Rio there will be 32 events in the pool and 2 in the open water. I don't know much about the open swimming competitors so unless the mods change it I will leave it as pool events.

There are 14 freestyle swimming events inc the relays of the 32 swimming events. Oz could win 7 of them to match what happened in Melbourne in 1956 but back then there were only 13 events and Oz won 8 events but all 7 freestyle events ie men's 100m, 400m, 1,500m, 4x200m relay, women's 100m, 400, and 4 x 100m. David Theile won the 100m backstroke. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics

McEvoy is a big chance to win both 50m and 100m free events as is Cate Campbell and Bronte will push her in both events. The women's 4x100m free will start favourites. Mack Horton has a time almost 2 seconds faster than the 2nd ranked swimmer in the 400m and he improved his 1500m pb at the trials by about 10 seconds and is ranked 4 seconds behind the Italian top ranked 1,500m. If he continues to make big steps he might get a surprise gold as he wasn't really pushed at the trials and won by 9 or 10 seconds. The 4 x 200m men's relay team will push the yanks.

American swimmer Katie Ledecky, will probably win the 200m, 400m, 800m and lead the winning 4 x 200m freestyle events, but they dont have that sort of swimmer in the men' freestyle events.

The backstroke swimmers will start favourite in 3 of the 4 events in Larkin and Seebom and are tipped to medal in the other, so you could have 5 freestyle golds and 3 backstroke golds = 8 which will equal the adjusted London gold total.

The swimmers will win between 15 and 18 medals. Johhny Betrand has been planning for almost 3 years to make sure the London debacle wont be repeated. Since Atlanta in 1996 swimming has produced between 28% and 42% of Oz's total medals
1996 12 of 41, 2000 18 of 58, 2004 15 of 50, 2008 20 of 46, 2012 10 of 35. and gold medals have been
1996 2 of 9, 2000 5 of 16, 2004 7 of 17, 2008 6 of 14 and 2012 1 of 8.
Only other Olympics Oz has won 6 events was in 1972 when the great Shane Gould won 3 individual events and there were only 29 events. If swimming deliver as expected, Oz will win between 12 and 16 golds and between 35 and 48 medals in total.

He are some links
http://www.fina.org/ and swimming http://www.fina.org/discipline/swimming
http://www.fina.org/content/xxxi-olympic-games
http://www.fina.org/content/rio-2016-swimming
https://twitter.com/fina1908
https://www.youtube.com/user/FINA1908/videos
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fina/

NBC has been able to change the schedule just like in Beijing, but push it out later rather than flip finals to morning sessions. So traditional heats start at 10am and finals at 7pm local time but now the heats will start at 1pm and finish around 3pm and the finals will start at 10pm and finish at midnight or later Rio time. That makes the finals for US start at 9pm NY time and 6pm LA time. In Oz that means the finals will be on at the reasonable time from 11am EST but heats are on from 2am EST. Here is a link to the whole aquatics schedule online from FINA as well as FINA's pdf. (Edit for some reason I can't find the pdf)

http://www.fina.org/event/xxxi-olympic-games/schedule

Event Schedule by Day (Finals only)
August 6 – men’s 400 IM, men’s 400 free, women’s 400 IM, women’s 4x100 free relay
August 7 – women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast, women’s 400 free, men’s 4x100 free relay
August 8 – men’s 200 free, women’s 100 back, men’s 100 back, women’s 100 breast
August 9 – women’s 200 free, men’s 200 fly, women’s 200 IM, men’s 4x200 free relay
August 10 – men’s 200 breast, women’s 200 fly, men’s 100 free, women’s 4x200 free relay
August 11 – women’s 200 breast, men’s 200 back, men’s 200 IM, women’s 100 free
August 12 – women’s 200 back, men’s 100 fly, women’s 800 free, men’s 50 free
August 13 – women’s 50 free, men’s 1500 free, women’s 4x100 medley relay, men’s 4x100 medley relay

The opening night has traditionally been a good night for Oz with chances of medals in 3 of the 4 events and Brazil is no different. The Men's 400IM Fraser Holmes and outside chance for a minor medal, but Mack Horton is a big chance to win the 400m, the women are favourite to win the women's 4x100m freestyle relay and the men a chance at a medal in the 4 x100m freestyle as it will be between France, USA, Oz Edit my mistake men's relay is night two, the other event is the women's IM and Blair Evans will struggle to make it to the final. One of the Europeans will win this event.

This is the FINA statistics handbook for the Olympics upadated in January 2015
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/HistoFINA_SWOG_1.pdf

and for World Championships which was updated in December 2015 for after Kazan in Russia in 2015 championships.
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/final_histofina_swwch_2016_0.pdf

This is the Aussie team selected for the pool events. Thirty-four athletes were named to the Swimming Section after the trials, with a blend of experience and youth with 21 swimmers to make their debut, while 13 athletes will become multiple Olympians including five who are off to their third Games. (3 more relay swimmers were added after initial squad of 34 to go to 37 + 2 open water swimmers = 39 which is the number usually quoted in the media)

1. Jessica Ashwood - 400m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle
2. Bronte Barratt - 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
3. Georgia Bohl - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
4. Bronte Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
5. Cate Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
6. Tamsin Cook - 400m Freestyle
7. Alicia Coutts - 200m Individual Medley
8. Brittany Elmslie -4 x 100m Freestyle
9. Blair Evans - 400m Individual Medley
10. Madeline Groves - 100m , 200m Butterfly, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Belinda Hocking - 200m Backstroke
12. Emma McKeon - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 13. 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Taylor McKeown - 100 & 200m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Keryn McMaster - 400m Individual Medley
16. Leah Neale - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
17. Kotuku Ngawati - 200m Individual Medley
18. Emily Seebohm - 100m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley RelayBrianna Throssell - 200m Butterfly
19. Madison Wilson - 100m Backstroke

1. Joshua Beaver - 200m Backstroke
2. Kyle Chalmers - 100m Freestyle
3. Thomas Fraser-Holmes - 400m Individual Medley, 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
4. Jacob Hansford - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
5. Mack Horton - 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
6. Grant Irvine - 200m Butterfly
7. Mitch Larkin - 100 & 200m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
8. Travis Mahoney - 400m Individual Medley
9. Cameron McEvoy - 50m, 100m & 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
10. David McKeon - 400m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Jack McLoughlin - 1500m Freestyle
12. David Morgan - 200m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
13. Jake Packard - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Joshua Palmer - 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Daniel Smith - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
16. James Magnussen - 4x100m freestyle relay
17. James Roberts- 4x100m freestyle relay
18. Matt Abood- 4x100m freestyle relay

Chelsea Gubecka - Open Water 10km
Jarrod Poort - Open Water 10km

The official Swimming Australia site which will give you updates on Aussies is
http://www.swimming.org.au/home.aspx

The official Rio site for athletics is poor in my opinion but might fire up once the games start
https://www.rio2016.com/en/swimming

This is a great stats site from Fina and gives you al the rankings for all events
http://www.fina.org/content/swimming-world-ranking

These wiki sites are always good value for past winners and you then click on inks to show past finals for an event or that past event in total from first round heats to final.
Olympics stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_Olympic_gold_medalists_in_swimming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...pics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(women)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...the_Olympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships

World Championship stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINA_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_World_Aquatics_Championships_gold_medalists

This is the bible of the sport Swimming World Magazine
http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/
and a couple of others
https://swimswam.com/news/
 
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Kyle Chalmers who qualified as the 2nd Aussie in 100m about 3 months before his 18th birthday and will swim the relays. He has the fastest time ever by a junior for a 100m and is therefore the fastest ever 17 or 18 year old with his qualifying time of 48.03 from the Olympic trials. He therefore holds the current world junior men's/boy's record holder for 100m freestyle.

I have been watching his times since 2011 when he was 13 and he regularly has done better than Thorpe in the 100m and 200m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly at the same age. I reckon if he stays progressing the next 8 years like he has the last 5 he will be pushing Thorpe as our most successful Olympic Swimmer.

He has a long history with Port Adelaide via his father and has been doing some work their since the trials as a way to be around professional athlete environment as he has taken time off from his year 12 studies this year.

 
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RussellEbertHandball said:
Yep for US TV ever night finals session starts at 10pm local time.
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Good grief.

Not sure how I am going to watch the swimming/aths this year around a working week. Will be the first time since 1996 when I was in primary school that I won't get to watch a fair chunk of the good stuff live.
 
The relays in swimming, just like athletics are great to watch because they can be equal parts disaster and greatness.

Since the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Aussie swimming has shown its depth by doing well in the relays. That's what relays are all about, they show the true depth of a nations swimmers. You can have great individual swimmers from nations but they have no real depth eg Kristy Coventry of Zimbabwe or Yana Klochkova of the Ukraine who did the double double of medleys at both Sydney and Athens and the double in 2003 at Barcelona World Champs.

1996 Atlanta games Oz had 2 stars in Perkins and O'Neil and some other very good swimmers in Petria Thomas, Sam Riley, Nicole Stevenson, Sarah Ryan, Daniel Kowalski, Phil Rogers, Scott Miller, but with a home Olympics next and a home world champs in Perth in 1998, they looked at the relays as the way to build a team and lucked out somewhat with the emergence at those games of stars at once, Thorpe, Hackett, Klim and then more came at Sydney Jones, Huegill, Graham, Rooney, etc. This is what has happened in the relays since 1998 World Champs, ie winners plus medalists in Olympic years but also the world champs the year before the Olympics and how the results are similar. The year after the Olympics there are a lot of retirements and no shows so they aren't as good a guide to what will happen 3 years later. Green indicates Oz didn't medal and maroon that the US didn't and I have put their positions in the relevant squares.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...pics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(women)

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Brian Cazeneuve of Sports illustrated who has done their Olympic predictions since 2000 and is a swimming reporter, wrote these couple of articles about what happened at the US trials and looks at other swimmers from around the world who will challenge the US swimmers and their dominance. He wrote about the relays as an indicator US swimming isn't in a dominate position as it has been the last 25-30 years over both male and female events.

http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/07/31/olympics-mens-swimming-preview-michael-phelps-rio-2016
What was the explanation for the United States team’s relatively slow times at the U.S. Olympic trials? It could have been something about the portable pool in Omaha that caused the times to be slower. It could be that the turnover of new faces entering (30 first-timers), hit at the wrong time in the Olympic cycle at the new breed of USA swimmer will be much stronger in 2017. Or it could be that this just isn’t a very strong U.S. swim team and the squad will be exposed as sub-par in Rio. The question won’t really be answered until the Games take place in Brazil.

The established stars such as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are likely to come home with some medals, but what about the new group? And what about the relays? The U.S. has dominated the relay events for as long as each relay race has been contested at the Games. The U.S. team has medaled at all 11 Olympics in the 4x100-meter freestyle; it has medaled at all 23 non-boycotted Games in the 4x200-meter free, which has a longer history, and it has never been beaten in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Only the boycott in 1980 kept the U.S. team off the podium then. With a revamped Australian team heading to Rio and strong individuals in each individual stroke, will the perennial Olympic powers from the U.S. be able to match their medal haul from London that included eight golds or will the breed fall short in Rio?.......
http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/07/31/olympics-mens-swimming-preview-michael-phelps-rio-2016

and

http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/07/31/olympics-womens-swimming-preview-rio-2016-katie-ledecky
The United States’s Katie Ledecky is currently the best swimmer on the planet. Can she live up to the massive hype at the 2016 Olympic Games?

Katie Ledecky’s place in modern-day swimming is indisputable. She is simply the best swimmer on the planet today. Her place in the history books is still up for debate. Ledecky will be favored to win four gold medals in Rio: the freestyle events at 200, 400 and 800 meters, and the 4x200-meter relay. The U.S. coaches could also give her a turn in the 4x100 free relay, though that would likely be in the preliminary rounds and would depend on how they want to set up their foursomes. The only thing keeping Ledecky from winning another medal is that the women’s 1,500 is only contested at the nationals and world championships, but not at the Olympics (The men swim the 1,500, but not the 800 at the Games.) To get a sense of what Ledecky’s legacy could be, consider that she has won nine world titles and set 11 world records, and at 19, she will still be the youngest member of the U.S. women’s swim team in Rio.

Essentially, the longer the individual race, the firmer Ledecky’s hold on the top spot in the world rankings. She is the world-record holder in the 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle races, calling to mind the reign that Janet Evans had over the sport in the distance races when she broke world standards in the 1980s and held onto them through the turn of the century.......
http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/07/31/olympics-womens-swimming-preview-rio-2016-katie-ledecky
 
Vale Forbes Carlile a legendary coach of swimming not just in Oz but in world swimming, passed away today at 95. Was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame almost 40 years ago

Went to the 1948 Olympics as Australia's youngest ever swimming coach and then went to 1952 Olympics as Oz's first ever modern pentathlete, which until his passing had been Australia's oldest living Olympian for almost a decade. He finished 25th.

He was coach of 12 Olympic champions including the great Shane Gould.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/australias-oldest-olympian-forbes-carlile-dies-at-95/7681638
.......Carlile's death was confirmed by The Australian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA) on Tuesday. "For many years, Forbes Carlile was an integral member of the ASCTA Conference and was always seated in the front row beside his wife Ursula," the association said. "He will be sadly missed by the whole swimming community." The ASCTA also credited him with changing the way swimmers trained.

"His pioneering work on elite athlete training methods included interval workouts, pace clocks and log books, heart-rate tests, training under stress and T Wave studies of the ventricles," the ASCTA said. "He developed techniques such as even-paced swimming and the use of two-beat kicks for long-distance events."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/australias-oldest-olympian-forbes-carlile-dies-at-95/7681638

This is a good story of his life in this ABC News story video embedded at.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-...es-carlile-dies/7683444?section=olympics-2016
 
Looking forward to the swimming.
Easily our strongest team since Beijing 2008 and has the potential to beat the Americans.
Considering,the depth we had in Beijing,It was a disappointing result.
In context with London,6 Gold medals in Beijing sound OK,but it potentially had more opportunities.
Libby Trickett wearing an older textile suit in both the 50m and 100m freestyle.Losing both races.
She was the current WR holder for both events swum in a supersuit.
Eamon Sullivan breaking the WR in the semi of the 100m only to swim slower in the final and lose by a fraction of a second.
WR holder in the 200m Breastroke,Leisel Jones losing to Rebecca Soni.
And the same with Jess Schipper
The star peformer was of course,Stephanie Rice with 3 Gold medals.
Anyway,it was an era of supersuits and incredible times.
As with any Olympics,expect the unexpected.
 

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Should start favourites in
100m Free -Cam McEvoy(Textile WR holder)
400m Free -Mack Horton(No1 in 2016 and 2nd fastest all time Australian behind Thorpe)
200m Back- Mitch Larkin (World Champion)
4x100m Free-Men (on paper, the fastest out there,but......... :)
50m Free- Cate Campbell (Textile WR Holder) and Bronte Campbell (World Champion)
100m Free - Cate Campbell (WR Holder) and Bronte Campbell (World Champion)
100m Back - Emily Seebohm (World Champion)
200m Back -Emily Seebohm (World Champion)
4x100m Freestyle -Women (Australians ranked 1st,2nd,4th and 10th)
4x100m Medley Relay -Womens (Huge bookends with Seebohm and Campbell,Bohl and McKeon not weak)

And MASSIVE Chances in
50m Free - Cam McEvoy Ranked 2nd in world and a fraction of favourite Manaudou.If Cam is on form,he could win it.
1500m Free-Mack Horton.Anyone that can swim 14.39 must be in contention.
100m Back-Mitch Larkin The World Champ in this event with the fastest time out of any of the competition must be a huge chance. May be caught in an American sandwich
4x200m Free Mens-The Americans are not as strong as they were previously and if all Aus swimmers stand up and be counted they could knock them off.( yes you David McKeon)
4x100 Medley Mens -Once again,the Americans will be strong all round,but if our breastrokers and Fly swimmers can only lose half a sec,we have Cam McEvoy to bring it home.Last World Champs,he swim a 46.5 on the Free leg.He is now quicker and the Americans dont have a Jason Lezak or supersuit to assist.Could be close.
200m Free - Emma McKeon.This will be the race of the Olympics.Ledecky,Pelligrini,Sjostrum,and McKeon is ranked 3rd and half a sec off the pace.A massive talent and could easy create the upset that no one saw coming.
200m Fly -Maddy Groves is the no1 ranked swimmer in the world.She is faster than last years World Champion.She could easily win this.
4x200m Free Womens-Once again,the Americans are favoured but the Aussies are in with a huge chance.

And lets not forget anyone from lucky lane 6.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Kyle Chalmers who qualified as the 2nd Aussie in 100m about 3 months before his 18th birthday and will swim the relays. He has the fastest time ever by a junior for a 100m and is therefore the fastest ever 17 or 18 year old with his qualifying time of 48.03 from the Olympic trials. He therefore holds the current world junior men's/boy's record holder for 100m freestyle.

I have been watching his times since 2011 when he was 13 and he regularly has done better than Thorpe in the 100m and 200m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly at the same age. I reckon if he stays progressing the next 8 years like he has the last 5 he will be pushing Thorpe as our most successful Olympic Swimmer.

He has a long history with Port Adelaide via his father and has been doing some work their since the trials as a way to be around professional athlete environment as he has taken time off from his year 12 studies this year.

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The guy is still just 17 and will most likely swim in the 47s very shortly (most likely next week!)
Australia have been blessed with incredible 100m freestylers over the past 15 years.
Klim,Thorpe(Yes,he did win the 2004 Bronze),Sullivan,Magnussen,McEvoy and now Chalmers.
No country,even the US can boast a better list than that.
Funny enough,its the US that keep pumpin up the name of Caleb Dressel as their future superstar.
The guy is a college stud in their 25yard shortcourse turnathon,but cannot do much better than low 48s in the real stuff.
Chalmers ,the kid,much quicker and younger than the self proclaimed college "superstar".
 
dantm said:
The guy is still just 17 and will most likely swim in the 47s very shortly (most likely next week!)
Australia have been blessed with incredible 100m freestylers over the past 15 years.
Klim,Thorpe(Yes,he did win the 2004 Bronze),Sullivan,Magnussen,McEvoy and now Chalmers.
No country,even the US can boast a better list than that.
Funny enough,its the US that keep pumpin up the name of Caleb Dressel as their future superstar.
The guy is a college stud in their 25yard shortcourse turnathon,but cannot do much better than low 48s in the real stuff.
Chalmers ,the kid,much quicker and younger than the self proclaimed college "superstar".
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Turned 18 on 25th June. If his progress continues and the body holds up then I expect to to swim at Tokyo 2020 and 2024 Olympics. Wouldn't be surprised if he misses one or two world championships over that 8 years. I expect him to retire in September 2024 and the announce he is playing for Port and will be Category B rookie listed in October 2024. ;)
 
dantm said:
Should start favourites in
100m Free -Cam McEvoy(Textile WR holder)
400m Free -Mack Horton(No1 in 2016 and 2nd fastest all time Australian behind Thorpe)
200m Back- Mitch Larkin (World Champion)
4x100m Free-Men (on paper, the fastest out there,but......... :)
50m Free- Cate Campbell (Textile WR Holder) and Bronte Campbell (World Champion)
100m Free - Cate Campbell (WR Holder) and Bronte Campbell (World Champion)
100m Back - Emily Seebohm (World Champion)
200m Back -Emily Seebohm (World Champion)
4x100m Freestyle -Women (Australians ranked 1st,2nd,4th and 10th)
4x100m Medley Relay -Womens (Huge bookends with Seebohm and Campbell,Bohl and McKeon not weak)

And MASSIVE Chances in
50m Free - Cam McEvoy Ranked 2nd in world and a fraction of favourite Manaudou.If Cam is on form,he could win it.
1500m Free-Mack Horton.Anyone that can swim 14.39 must be in contention.
100m Back-Mitch Larkin The World Champ in this event with the fastest time out of any of the competition must be a huge chance. May be caught in an American sandwich
4x200m Free Mens-The Americans are not as strong as they were previously and if all Aus swimmers stand up and be counted they could knock them off.( yes you David McKeon)
4x100 Medley Mens -Once again,the Americans will be strong all round,but if our breastrokers and Fly swimmers can only lose half a sec,we have Cam McEvoy to bring it home.Last World Champs,he swim a 46.5 on the Free leg.He is now quicker and the Americans dont have a Jason Lezak or supersuit to assist.Could be close.
200m Free - Emma McKeon.This will be the race of the Olympics.Ledecky,Pelligrini,Sjostrum,and McKeon is ranked 3rd and half a sec off the pace.A massive talent and could easy create the upset that no one saw coming.
200m Fly -Maddy Groves is the no1 ranked swimmer in the world.She is faster than last years World Champion.She could easily win this.
4x200m Free Womens-Once again,the Americans are favoured but the Aussies are in with a huge chance.

And lets not forget anyone from lucky lane 6.
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Yep these are pretty much the events I was mention in the OP in terms of being Gold medal chances or fit into my pick for 15 to 18 medals and being very strong in the freestyle events. You have predicted medals in 11 of the 14 freestyle events only missing women's 400m and 200m and mens 200m. There are always surprises both failures and unexpected success. The one event that you haven't mentioned that could be a surprise gold is the 4x200m free. McEvoy has pulled out of the 200m individual event to concentrate on the 50m and 100m. Given the schedule he will swim the heats of 100m on day 4 and probably be rested up for the relay heat. Then on night 4 the semi final 100m is the first event and the 4x200m relay is the last one.

You have the men's 4x100m as favourites, but the French and yanks will start favourites as they haven't swum as a team yet and the Aussies had to to qualify as one of the last 4.

The women's 4 x 100m medley relay will depend heavily on the middle 2 swimmers. The bookend as you correctly say are very fast but i don';t think the middle 2 are good enough to make us favourites. Doesn't mean they cant pull it off but they wont start favourites before the heat swim.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
The women's 4 x 100m medley relay will depend heavily on the middle 2 swimmers. The bookend as you correctly say are very fast but i don';t think the middle 2 are good enough to make us favourites. Doesn't mean they cant pull it off but they wont start favourites before the heat swim.
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Based on times,the Australians are fastest
Seebohm-58.73
Bohl 1:06.12
McKeon 56.89
C.Campbell 52.06
3:53.80

USA
Smoglia 59.02
King 1:05.20
Worrell 56.48
Weitzell 53.28
3:53.98

Australia slightly ahead,but Seebohm is a proven low 58 second backstroker and certainly faster than her best of 58.73 from this year.

Given C1 to bring the team home,I would say Australia are slight favourites in a new WR TIME of 3:51.70
 
Australian swimming team concerned about cloudy Games pool
The forecast at the Rio Olympic pool is cloudy with a chance of ... infection? The Australians again risked being branded whingers after asking swimming officials to clean up the Rio Aquatics Centre warm-up pool over infection fears.

Dolphins assistant coach Michael Bohl felt he had to pull Australian swimmers - including dual world champion Mitch Larkin - from the pool on Thursday because the quality of the water concerned him. They instead trained in the adjoining - and much more crowded - main competition pool.

"That pool looked really cloudy," Bohl said. "Rather than risk eye, ear or any other infection we brought them in here.Australia has already copped plenty of flak for raising concerns about the state of Rio's Olympic facilities.......
Australian swimming team concerned about cloudy Games pool
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Australian swimming team concerned about cloudy Games pool
The forecast at the Rio Olympic pool is cloudy with a chance of ... infection? The Australians again risked being branded whingers after asking swimming officials to clean up the Rio Aquatics Centre warm-up pool over infection fears.

Dolphins assistant coach Michael Bohl felt he had to pull Australian swimmers - including dual world champion Mitch Larkin - from the pool on Thursday because the quality of the water concerned him. They instead trained in the adjoining - and much more crowded - main competition pool.

"That pool looked really cloudy," Bohl said. "Rather than risk eye, ear or any other infection we brought them in here.Australia has already copped plenty of flak for raising concerns about the state of Rio's Olympic facilities.......
Australian swimming team concerned about cloudy Games pool
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A media beat up.
Pool looked a bit cloudy and they trained in the competition pool.
Big f###*% deal
 
dantm said:
A media beat up.
Pool looked a bit cloudy and they trained in the competition pool.
Big f###*% deal
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Yeah all you seem to here is this is bad, that's bad, everything is bad type reporting t the moment to fill up space. I only put it up because if true the Aussie team will be reported as whingers.
 
Ok so there is swimming finals on tonight. That's good to know. So quick
 
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