2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
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The finals lineups for the womenâs 4Ă100 medley relay, the last race on the last finals session of the 2022 World Championships, have been released.
The United States, who were underwhelming in prelims and only qualified in seventh for finals, will be swimming in lane one. After using Alex Walsh on prelims, they will opt for Lilly King on breaststroke, meaning that Annie Lazor (who was selected to represent the U.S. in the 100 breast) will not be on either relay. This comes despite the fact that Lazor will not be competing in the 50 breast final tonight whereas King will be.
Canada has swapped in Rachel Nicol for Kelsey Wog. Nicol split 1:07.28 on the prelims of the mixed medley relay, whereas Wog split 1:08.26 on the womenâs relay this morning.
Australia, Canada, and the United States, who are the podium favorites for this relay, will not be swimming in adjacent lanes next to each other.
Full Lineups:
- United States (Smith, King, Huske, Curzan)
- Italy (Panziera, Pilato, di Liddo, di Pietro)
- Sweden (Rosvall, Hansson S., Hansson L., Sjostrom)
- Australia (McKeown, Strauch, Throssell, OâCallaghan)
- Netherlands (Toussaint, Schouten, de Waard, Steenbergen)
- Canada (Masse, Nicol, MacNeil, Oleksiak)
- China (Peng, Tang, Zhang, Yang)
- France (Terebo, Blanchetiere, Wattel, Bonnet)
I just came back to this, lemme say something:
First you decide to leave Ray Looze home and not even let him travel with the team even though based on the trials time there is at least 4 medals and 2 relay legs, maybe one more, in between two of his swimmers.
Next when it is obvious your #1 breaststroker needs her coach after COVID you leave her on an island.
Then you use a DQ as an excuse to leave a swimmer out of a relay and rob her of a medal. For those saying the DQ is a valid reason, just a reminder she beat her seed in the 50 later in the meet
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Iâm with you on the head scratcher of the prelims lineup but disqualifying DeSorbo from being head coach again is a little dramatic. You donât know whatâs been going on behind closed doors, maybe Annie is sick or something. Youâre basing this all on massive speculation.
If there was actual concern about the possibility of Lazorâs stroke DQing the whole relay then I guess it makes sense since all the prelim relay really needs to do is make it to finals
Huske to win it for America but if Throssell does a Hodges then itâs Gold to Australia.
Canât fathom why they didnât use Lazor on heats or Douglas on fly in prelims.
They didnât want to be disqualified
Rowdy Gaines Drinking Game rules for today:
One Drink For Each:
Rowdy references the reaction time of a swimmer
Rowdy mentions Phelps
Rowdy says âHERE HE COMESâ during Bobby Finkeâs Last 50
Two Drinks:
Lilly King Gets Top 3 in 50m Breast
If the Menâs 50m Back WR is broken
If Bobby Finkeâs last 50 is 25.99 or better
Mentions USA Men Almost Missing Oly Final in 400 Medley Relay
Team USA Medals in the Womenâs 50
Team USA Wins the Menâs 400 Medley Relay
Finish Drink:
If Summer McIntosh Breaks the 400 IM WR
Team USA Wins the Womenâs 400 Medley Relay
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is pool water a liquid
For the purpose of this game and having people survive, we will classify it as a chemical
Silly me itâs the wrong thread
Lazor was robbed of a medal. Not saying she really shouldâve been on the finals relay but at LEAST the prelims relay, come on
yeah im really wondering with that decision. Seemed like an incredibly obvious choice, wouldâve made sense even if she were on the finals relau
she definitely couldâve been better than the 1:07.6 from walsh today
Canât expect Lazor to miraculously fix her kick in a few days, too much of a risk that the team will be disqualified.
USA will lose to Australia and Canada!
Canada maybe but the USâs middle legs are both faster and Smith consistently beats McKeown on relays and I donât think MOC is fast enough to make up the difference
Smith and McKeown have only raced against eachother in a relay twice once in Gwangju 3 years ago and once in Tokyo where McKeown was very slightly faster.
China (Peng, Tang, Zhang, Yang) is just funny to me
You are not alone
Is it because of the spellings?
nah itâs bc they arenât western names
Of course it could just be because they seem to rhyme. You wouldnât think itâd be at least a little funny to see Smith, Smith, Smith and Ledecky (lol, sounds like a law firm), or Brandt, Dant, Gant, Krant, all one one team?
Commentatorâs nightmare
This type of person ^ has perfect crossover with the type of person that thinks Shayna Jack was a victim that just made a âheroicâ return, or the type of person that thinks Yannick Agnel doesnât deserve âunfairâ criticism.
Not so much if you speak their native language (which I do). Just remember traveling and meeting people from different backgrounds and cultures can broaden oneâs horizons.
Peng, Tang, Zhang, and Yang are all very common Chinese surnames.