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Pool and Open Water Swimming: Do Not Swallow the Water

selkie

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sab85
sab85

"Nathan,  what happened with this swim?" [Mind you,  he had just won a bronze medal] "Well I didn't have the fastest time in the pool" Love it.  I wish all the athletes would answer stupid q

Daisy
Daisy

History you guys: we share a border and an olympic record and history.   

TobinAlbers
TobinAlbers

Gotta love Cody Miller's whooping it up with his personal best and placing bronze. He was high fiving and punching the air like he won gold. Too cute.

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Daisy

Daisy

There it is. Bob  and Phelps interview. 
I have zero respect for people who drink and drive. sorry that he was having post Olympic depression (a legitimate thing). almost lost my family to a drunk driver. 

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againstthewind

againstthewind

9 minutes ago, Daisy said:

There it is. Bob  and Phelps interview. 
I have zero respect for people who drink and drive. sorry that he was having post Olympic depression (a legitimate thing). almost lost my family to a drunk driver. 

While I understand your feelings, I have a bit of a soft spot when it comes to Phelps. I can't really explain it.

However, I have a really rip-roaring crush on Lochte and as dumb as he is, he is known as a great guy. So I kind of want him to win. I hope the state of Maryland doesn't disown for me this.

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Daisy

Daisy

Just now, againstthewind said:

While I understand your feelings, I have a bit of a soft spot when it comes to Phelps. I can't really explain it.

However, I have a really rip-roaring crush on Lochte and as dumb as he is, he is known as a great guy. So I kind of want him to win. I hope the state of Maryland doesn't disown for me this.

No it's fair. :) like i respect what he did/does in the pool - I even ignored the bong thing, but I didn't know about the DUIs. that's just brrzzttt for me. 

hehe I am also going for the Oompa Loompa. ;)

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againstthewind

againstthewind

1 minute ago, Daisy said:

No it's fair. :) like i respect what he did/does in the pool - I even ignored the bong thing, but I didn't know about the DUIs. that's just brrzzttt for me. 

hehe I am also going for the Oompa Loompa. ;)

Glad my Oompa Loompa has caught on :)

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KenyaJ

KenyaJ

I've seen Michael Phelps swim a lot of amazing races, but JFC. That was unreal. I remember when breaststroke used to be his "weak" stroke. And what even happened on that freestyle leg? I blinked and he was suddenly a body length in front of everyone else. Good lord. That was crazy impressive.

Sad that Ryan didn't medal, though.  :-(

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Cherpumple

Cherpumple

Say what you want about the medal inflation of swimming, but that man is a MACHINE! I'm more amazed every time I see him compete. How the heck did he win with that much of a lead? In his fifth Olympics?? Unreal!

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Amethyst

Amethyst

Just now, Sew Sumi said:

Lochte probably ate all those carbs. Phelps not so much? The live feed is coming from the ready room. With this site crashing, I have no clue who won, other than Not Lochte. 

1.  Phelps

2.  Hagino (Japan)

3.  Wang (China)

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photo fox

photo fox

I want Phelps, his mother, his girlfriend, and the unfortunately named baby to get OFF my screen. I know he's amazing, I know it's NBC's fault, etc, but I don't care. 

Please retire for real, Michael. I'm tired of your face. 

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jjj

jjj

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Freaking unbelievable call on the Phelps win on the Canadian channel -- they kept saying Lochte was in Lane Four, and called the entire race that way.  I kept counting lanes and not understanding why they were saying Phelps was out of it. "LOCHTE WINS THE GOLD!!!" Then, five seconds AFTER the finish, they  said, "whoops, Michael Phelps was in that lane".  No kidding, guys.  It would be funny if it had not ruined the enjoyment of the result.

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Daisy

Daisy

1 minute ago, photo fox said:

I want Phelps, his mother, his girlfriend, and the unfortunately named baby to get OFF my screen. I know he's amazing, I know it's NBC's fault, etc, but I don't care. 

Please retire for real, Michael. I'm tired of your face. 

I love you. do you want a cookie?

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superdeluxe

superdeluxe

4 minutes ago, Daisy said:

There's now a Phelps clock now? 

Of course there is.

 

1 minute ago, photo fox said:

I want Phelps, his mother, his girlfriend, and the unfortunately named baby to get OFF my screen. I know he's amazing, I know it's NBC's fault, etc, but I don't care. 

Please retire for real, Michael. I'm tired of your face. 

I wish I could like your post a hundred thousand times because that is exactly how I feel.  At least I had preseason football to keep me from the nonsense and Track and Field starts tomorrow.

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againstthewind

againstthewind

1 minute ago, catray said:

Hate on NBC and the Phelpspalooza all you want but damn, the man is a beast. 4 golds in the 200IM; he totally killed it. 

Poor Lochte... I'm crushed he didn't medal. 

Exactly how I feel. He can take this one of two ways...quit or use it as motivation. The fact that he was second behind Phelps in the semis means SOMETHING. COME BACK RYAN!

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KenyaJ

KenyaJ

7 minutes ago, Cherpumple said:

Say what you want about the medal inflation of swimming, but that man is a MACHINE! 

Yeah, medal inflation doesn't explain what he's done at all, relative to his fellow swimmers.

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jjj

jjj

2 minutes ago, Daisy said:

(laugh) CBC called the entire race wrong. They thought it was Lochte who won! 

I couldn't believe it!  Of course, I was sure I was wrong, and I kept counting lanes instead of focusing on the race.  Sheesh, Canadians!  I mean, they said Lochte was ahead the entire race, and "Phelps will not even medal" in the final few seconds. 

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emma675

emma675

Damn, love or hate Phelps, you have to admit the man is a beast in the water. I don't even understand how he does what he does. 

Poor pretty, dumb Lochte. Is it just me or did he not look like he had trained enough for this? I feel like he wasn't in as good a shape as he was before.

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KenyaJ

KenyaJ

I don't think any gold medal has made me happier than Simone Manuel's! Woohoo!

And congrats to Penny! She's going to be a beast in Tokyo. (Hopefully. I hope she doesn't have a Missy Franklin Olympics.)

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Cherpumple

Cherpumple

Just now, emma675 said:

Poor pretty, dumb Lochte. Is it just me or did he not look like he had trained enough for this? I feel like he wasn't in as good a shape as he was before.

I agree. I mean, I'm certainly in no position to criticize the physique of an elite athlete, but when I first saw him at Rio my initial thought was that he looked doughier than I expected.

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Daisy

Daisy

omg. Penny just made me cry. and Simone made me cry. 
America. I'm so glad to share our gold medal with you. 

Just now, Dots And Stripes said:

So happy for Manuel. She didn't know she won until she looked at the board. 

Neither did Penny. like she refused to turn around, and then she did and she was like

:o. Oh my goodness! I won! 
#Pennycrush

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