Lazaro Vega Posted August 16, 2004 Report Posted August 16, 2004 Loving this so far. The level is so high all around it is hard to imagine one swimmer or one team dominating. That's my sport, or I should say was -- now my sport is baby wrangling. Quote
Phil Meloy Posted August 16, 2004 Report Posted August 16, 2004 The men's 200 metre freestyle final in about 6 hours from now should be a great race. Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted August 16, 2004 Author Report Posted August 16, 2004 I'd say, with four world record holders in the pool at once, and the hyped battle between Thorpe and the Phelps. Did you catch the men's 4X100 freestyle relay last night? The Dutch dude who swam the anchor leg and caught the Americans will be in the 200, too, and you know he'll be psyched. Should be one of the great races of the Olympics. Quote
Phil Meloy Posted August 17, 2004 Report Posted August 17, 2004 The Dutch dude who swam the anchor leg and caught the Americans will be in the 200, too. You mean Pieter Van Den Hoggenband. He was the reigning Olympic champion at the event having won a bit of a suprise victory over Ian Thorpe at Sydney 2004 when he broke the Olympic record in the semi-final and then went on to equal his own new record in the final to take gold. Thorpe reversed that result in pretty commanding form this time though and broke the Olympic record again. Should be a good one later today between the USA and Australia in the men's 4 x 200 freestyle relay. Probably have to tip Australia to win with both Thorpe and Hackett in their team. Don't see many real challengers to these two in this event but you never know there could be an upset. I'm sure both the USA and Australia were hoping to do better in the 4 x 100 relay. Quote
blue lake Posted August 19, 2004 Report Posted August 19, 2004 Yes, wow, 13 hundredths of a second. Way to go America. And the women tonight just pounded it in the same race. Of course the tape I made of the men's 4X200 free relay ended during the second leg of this race so I didn't get to watch the finish. Sportcenter did not show it, and I've been frustrated in getting it off the web, too. I've gone to msnbc.com and under their olympics headlines there's a video link (not the video link in the tab across the top, the one down the page in a list). The video of this relay is there, and I entered my "registration" required to view it but don't know what I did to prompt the registration box to come up, and still haven't seen it as the window doesn't have a place to sign in to see the restricted video (which I registered for). I've mailed their video support folks and still no reply. I'm going kinda crazy. Would really, really like to see that race! Can anyone help me out? Anyone have a copy of it at a link or something? Or a road map into it? Yes, Pieter Van Den Hoggenband. What a swimmer. Lazaro Quote
Phil Meloy Posted August 19, 2004 Report Posted August 19, 2004 (edited) Sorry can't with a link on the men's 200 relay but you should be able to catch it on some highlights programme. Thorpe swam a sensational last leg but the the Australian first three had left him with just a little bit too much to do. As far as Van Der Hoogenband goes both he and the current World and Olympic record holder Alexander Popov of Russia were both surprise non-qualifiers for the 50 metre freestyle semis this morning. Edited August 19, 2004 by Phil Meloy Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted August 21, 2004 Author Report Posted August 21, 2004 Micheal Phelps is coming to Michigan! Quote
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