tracker
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Home For You Chat My Shows (beta) Register Games Grosses
pixeltracker

us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection

us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection

papalovesmambo Profile Photo
papalovesmambo
#1us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:47pm

phelps and lochte both broke the world record in the 400 im with phelps turning in the lower time and current world record of 4:05.25.

katie hoff broke also set a new wr in the 400 im: 4:31.12.

hayley mcgregory broke the 100 backstroke mark only to see the hottest american swimmer ever to put on a swimsuit, natalie coughlin, break it back in the very next heat. natalie then went on to become the first woman ever to swim a sub-59 100 back setting the new current world record of :58.97 in the finals.

aaron piersol lowered his own 100 back world record to :52.89.

tonight sees natalie take on teen sensation katie hoff in the 200 im which natalie avoided for 7 years after a 4th place finish in the 2000 trials.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

DayDreamer Profile Photo
DayDreamer
#2re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:48pm

It's crazy! I wonder how much of this is due to the new speedo suit?


Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

madbrian Profile Photo
madbrian
#2re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:54pm

One of the programs said it took the swimmers about 20 minutes to get into the new suit.


"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

papalovesmambo Profile Photo
papalovesmambo
#3re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:56pm

i know 3 of the 4 were wearing it. dunno about hoff. piersol might be screwed though because nike might make him wear theirs in the olympics after letting him wear the speedo in the trials.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

uncageg Profile Photo
uncageg
#4re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:58pm

Phelps said he has noticed a bit of difference with the new suits.


Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

DayDreamer Profile Photo
DayDreamer
#5re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:00pm

This always makes me wonder: at some point, we have to stop breaking speed records.


Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

madbrian Profile Photo
madbrian
#6re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:02pm

"This always makes me wonder: at some point, we have to stop breaking speed records."

Didn't some Gay guy break the 100m sprint record during the Track & Field trials?


"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

shameless Profile Photo
shameless
#7re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:15pm

I think I'm against these suits. If they enhance your performance isn't that still cheating?


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

madbrian Profile Photo
madbrian
#8re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:18pm

Equipment and technology have been improving sports for decades. Runners wear unitards for aerodynamics, footwear has improved by leaps and bounds.


"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

papalovesmambo Profile Photo
papalovesmambo
#9re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:19pm

if they're available to everyone, shames, it's fair. caps and goggles technically enhance performance as well. so does shaving down. are we gonna ban them as well? how about naked hairy swimmers without goggles?

as far as breaking records, i think we're still no where near seeing the full potential of the human body.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

LePetiteFromage
#10
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:22pm

Updated On: 1/22/09 at 01:22 PM

shameless Profile Photo
shameless
#11re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:23pm

I know, I know, but it just seems like the new suits are taking it to another level.

And, personally, I'm all for (somewhat) hairy naked swimmers.


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

DayDreamer Profile Photo
DayDreamer
#12re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:27pm

Where?


Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

shameless Profile Photo
shameless
#13re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:07pm

Anywhere!


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

papalovesmambo Profile Photo
papalovesmambo
#14re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:20pm

i'm up for some naked nat.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

fflagg Profile Photo
fflagg
#15re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:53pm

perhaps they should break speedo records instead. . .


Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?

#16re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 4:10pm

re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection

Resistance is futile.

papalovesmambo Profile Photo
papalovesmambo
#17re: us swimmers breaking records with a spastic's reeling perfection
Posted: 7/2/08 at 4:22pm

the borg are so passe. cylons are where it's at, baby.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective


Videos