Women's 50 freestyle after the heats - 1,043.
Men's 1,500 freestyel after the amazing heats (14:50 not good enough for the final!) - 1,019.
Women's 100 backstroke (1,050) and men's 100 backstroke (1,051) don't change after the heats of the medley relay which see NZL go through for the first time in Olympic relay history.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Olympic spirit
My favourite restaurant critic, AA Gill of the Sunday Times, has this to say:
'The Olympics are missing an element of frivolity. It's all too much sport and not enough games. They should bring back extinct events. Cricket, for instance. This was first contested olympically in Paris in 1900. The French team included TH Jordan, R Horne, H Terry, W Anderson, D Robinson, WT Attrill, W Browning, A McAvoy, P Tomalin and J Braid. The more astute of you will have noticed that these names are not typically French. The entire Frog team was made up of Englishmen. What greater evidence of the spirit of the ancient Olympiad, and our own innate fair play, than to actually field a team for the opposition because they're useless. The final was between Britain and France, and for the first and possibly last time in all the Olympic games, all 24 players (yes, it was a 12-a-side game) came from the same country. Britain won by 262 runs to 104.'
'The Olympics are missing an element of frivolity. It's all too much sport and not enough games. They should bring back extinct events. Cricket, for instance. This was first contested olympically in Paris in 1900. The French team included TH Jordan, R Horne, H Terry, W Anderson, D Robinson, WT Attrill, W Browning, A McAvoy, P Tomalin and J Braid. The more astute of you will have noticed that these names are not typically French. The entire Frog team was made up of Englishmen. What greater evidence of the spirit of the ancient Olympiad, and our own innate fair play, than to actually field a team for the opposition because they're useless. The final was between Britain and France, and for the first and possibly last time in all the Olympic games, all 24 players (yes, it was a 12-a-side game) came from the same country. Britain won by 262 runs to 104.'
Medley Relay
I sent this to Tom on 9 August:
.... the real dark horse is the M4x100MR, I think they could go 3:33.5!
54.5
59.0
51.5
48.5
not quite right but pretty close, eh?
Better than my apparent prediction for the women's 200 breaststroke; according to Luke Clark I said Jones was 'unbeatable' and I'd never heard of Rebecca Soni! I need to study swimming some more :)
.... the real dark horse is the M4x100MR, I think they could go 3:33.5!
54.5
59.0
51.5
48.5
not quite right but pretty close, eh?
Better than my apparent prediction for the women's 200 breaststroke; according to Luke Clark I said Jones was 'unbeatable' and I'd never heard of Rebecca Soni! I need to study swimming some more :)
Friday, August 15, 2008
Points update
Men's 50 freestyle after the semis - 1,052.
Women's 200 breaststroke - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,023 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.1
Women's 200 backstroke after the semis - 1,029.
Men's 200 backstroke - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,036 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.3
Men's 200 IM - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,039 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.6
Women's 100 freestyle - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,031 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.5
Men's 100 butterfly - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,035 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.5
Women's 200 breaststroke - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,023 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.1
Women's 200 backstroke after the semis - 1,029.
Men's 200 backstroke - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,036 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.3
Men's 200 IM - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,039 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.6
Women's 100 freestyle - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,031 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.5
Men's 100 butterfly - the all-time top 10 average is now 1,035 and the across the board events completed so far is at 1,033.5
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Greatest Ever
This from the Beijing website page on Michael Phelps:'Due to the especially long list of major performances for this athlete, some of the results are not displayed.'
FINA/swimnews - M200BF
FINA and swimnews reports here on Moss' incredible 200 buterfly final.
swimnews
The 200m butterfly, one of Michael Phelps’ favourite events, not only meant business as usual for him - winning the gold medal in a world record time.
It meant also something transcendent: in fact with this gold medal, the 11th he has won individually at the Olympics, Phelps became the most individual gold medal winner with 11 (no one has done better than nine), a tally that he is likely to increase through the rest of this week.
Phelps managed to win in 1:52.03, a new world record by 0.06 seconds. This was the 7th world record set by Phelps in this event in seven years. He could have swum faster if he had not experienced problems with goggles. He explained: “I couldn’t see anything for the last 100, my goggles pretty much filled up with water; it just kept getting worse through the race. I wanted to go 1:51 or better but for the circumstances I guess it’s not too bad”.
Image
Michael Phelps (USA)
Both the silver and the bronze medallists, respectively Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Takeshi Matsuda of Japan swam an amazing race, under 1:53 and well under the Olympic record set twice (in both the preliminaries and the semi-finals) from Phelps here in Beijing with 1:53.70.
Cseh took the silver in 1:52.70, Matsuda the bronze in 1:52.97 setting respectively a European and an Asian record. Moss Burmester, of New Zealand, and Peng Wu, of China, dead-heated for the 4th place in 1:54.35: a new Oceanian record for Burmester. Pawel Korzeniowski (POL, 6th in 1:54.60) and Kaio Almeida (BRA, 7th 1:54.71) also swam under 1:55, confirming the excellent level of this final.
Cseh, who had been competing in this event only for the second time, was very happy with his achievements (“I’m surprised, I’m happy, I enjoyed it. I’m still lacking the experience but I had a good time and a good result. I believe I am reducing the gap between me and Phelps”).
Record breakout and comparison (in bracket Phelps’ former world record splits from Melbourne 2007):
- Phelps: 25.36 (25.26), 53.53 (53.62), 1:22.75 (1.22.87), 1:52.03 (1.52.09)
- Cseh: 25.58, 54.59, 1:23.39, 1:52.70
- Matsuda: 25.58, 54.41, 1:23.58, 1:52.79
swimnews
The 200m butterfly, one of Michael Phelps’ favourite events, not only meant business as usual for him - winning the gold medal in a world record time.
It meant also something transcendent: in fact with this gold medal, the 11th he has won individually at the Olympics, Phelps became the most individual gold medal winner with 11 (no one has done better than nine), a tally that he is likely to increase through the rest of this week.
Phelps managed to win in 1:52.03, a new world record by 0.06 seconds. This was the 7th world record set by Phelps in this event in seven years. He could have swum faster if he had not experienced problems with goggles. He explained: “I couldn’t see anything for the last 100, my goggles pretty much filled up with water; it just kept getting worse through the race. I wanted to go 1:51 or better but for the circumstances I guess it’s not too bad”.
Image
Michael Phelps (USA)
Both the silver and the bronze medallists, respectively Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Takeshi Matsuda of Japan swam an amazing race, under 1:53 and well under the Olympic record set twice (in both the preliminaries and the semi-finals) from Phelps here in Beijing with 1:53.70.
Cseh took the silver in 1:52.70, Matsuda the bronze in 1:52.97 setting respectively a European and an Asian record. Moss Burmester, of New Zealand, and Peng Wu, of China, dead-heated for the 4th place in 1:54.35: a new Oceanian record for Burmester. Pawel Korzeniowski (POL, 6th in 1:54.60) and Kaio Almeida (BRA, 7th 1:54.71) also swam under 1:55, confirming the excellent level of this final.
Cseh, who had been competing in this event only for the second time, was very happy with his achievements (“I’m surprised, I’m happy, I enjoyed it. I’m still lacking the experience but I had a good time and a good result. I believe I am reducing the gap between me and Phelps”).
Record breakout and comparison (in bracket Phelps’ former world record splits from Melbourne 2007):
- Phelps: 25.36 (25.26), 53.53 (53.62), 1:22.75 (1.22.87), 1:52.03 (1.52.09)
- Cseh: 25.58, 54.59, 1:23.39, 1:52.70
- Matsuda: 25.58, 54.41, 1:23.58, 1:52.79
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