Some thoughts of Olympic Swimming Timing
Olympic Swimming Timing
Olympic swimmers will be doing their work very early in the morning in Beijing, and that is good news at least for viewers in the United States. All 32 gold-medal swimming events will be televised live, in prime time, on NBC, the network announced today. That means the swimmers — and gymnasts, too — will be competing between 8 and 11 in the morning Beijing time, according to Michael David Smith of AOL’s FanHouse blog. One of the medal hopefuls, of course, is North Kingstown’s own Elizabeth Beisel. 3
But let’s get real. The amount of coverage given to swimming on the Olympic telecasts is ridiculous. The anointing of Michael Phelps as the “greatest Olympic athlete of all time” is laughable. 2
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Ian Thorpe of Australia holds Olympic records for both the events?men’s 200 meter freestyle swimming and men’s 400 meter freestyle swimming. He made the record in men’s 200 meter freestyle swimming in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 1:44.71 seconds. The record in the men’s 400 meter freestyle swimming was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games with a timing of 3:40.59 seconds. 6
Two world records were set yesterday in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the men’s 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:05.25, and Katie Hoff qualified for her second Olympics with her own world record in the women?s 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:31.12. The trials will continue through July 6th. 1
Amanda Beard, the self-described “naive and very oblivious” teen of 1996 and now a business-savvy 26-year-old with a long list of endorsements, will have her answer by Friday. That’s the final of the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, an event in which Beard holds the American record. 5
Led by Stephanie Rice, the Australians set the 18th world swimming record of the Beijing Games in the women?s 800-meter freestyle relay, obliterating the previous mark by nearly six seconds to upset the Americans. The U.S. had won that event all three times since it was added to the Olympic program in 1996, but they couldn?t match the Aussies? blazing time of 7:44.31 that shattered the previous record by an astonishing 5.78. China held off the Americans to win silver. 7
In addition to the announcement of the team captains, the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Team will hold two separate media opportunities prior to the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Before departing for China, members of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team will be available in Singapore on Saturday, August 2. Upon the team’s arrival in Beijing, the team will hold its official Olympic press conference at the Main Press Center on Wednesday, August 6. 4
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