Braden and I didn’t see this coming, but who would have thought that Dana Vollmer would chose the Olympic final to change her strategy and take it out a little easier? Vollmer became the first woman ever under 56 seconds in the 100 Butterfly with her Gold Medal time of 55.98. Her front half 50 split of 26.39 was slower than she was in prelims (26.28-29.97, 56.25) and in semis (26.08-30.28, 56.36) but it allowed her to close in 29.59 on the back half and finally finish off that World Record she’s been talking about since Omaha.
Big time performance for Vollmer and the American women, but the Chinese get on the stand again with Lu Ying taking silver with a :56.87 and Alicia Coutts of Australia taking bronze with a 56.94.
The medley relay just reassured their dominance…
My question now is:
What are the chances of Natalie swimming the backstroke?? Bootsma did ok but she needed to be under 1:00 if she wanted that relay spot. Natalie looks a lot better than in Omaha…so I’m really pulling for coughlin-soni-vollmer-Franklin
I’m hoping for the same thing, it all comes down to how Natalie looked at camp. Terri will know best, so whatever she decides you know will be what she feels is best for the team.
It also depends what Franklin does in the back and free finals and whether Hardy can improve on her 53.5 relay split
I don’t think it would be wise move Franklin to the freestyle. Sony and Vollmer will add a 2 second gap total on Australia in their legs. There is no way Franklin and give the same amount of time to Aussie. So the USA is safe as long as they each come and perform at the same level they are performing now.
Her time would be a great 100 yard time in the 1970’s, it shows how far women’s butterfly has come in all these years.
And would have almost tied Hogshead/Steinseifer’s 55.92 gold medal time for the 100 FREE in the ‘Olympics!!
It’s nothing to do with the flag on the cap, if Lochte closed his IM in 51 or 52 it would raise some suspicion as well
Innocent until proven guilty though, just an incredible swim
^ Tell that to the “COME ON” person that replied to my post.
Though I do agree with being innocent until proven guilty.
Ok, there’s no way she is clean. She must be super athletically talented or is doping…I’m going with the latter.
*Looks at the flag on her swim cap*………Nevermind, she’s NOT Chinese, so she must be 100% legit.
/Sarcasm.
Dana has gone 56 in 100 fly 8 times and then went 55.. Do you even know what you are saying? 55.98 is an amazing swim, 58.6 for a girl at the end of a 400 IM DOES NOT HAPPEN.
… and yet it did. Perhaps her coach and she decided it COULD happen, and trained to do it that way.
+1
**en route