If you missed Ryan Lochte on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and you’re a swimmer, shame on you! This may be the greatest video with a swimming star ever created…
I’m kidding, of course, but this is a funny video. Fallon and Lochte are well matched, a great comic team, and something tells me Lochte’s going to be making several repeat appearances on the show between now and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
THE BOW AND ARROW SHOOTOUT VIDEO:
Lochte, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist and swimming star, got the full treatment from Fallon before the shootout. Lochte shared all of his medals on camera, pitched his workout video and his Lochte Sunglasses.
According to Lochte’s manager, Erika Wright, he’s returning to training very soon. Lochte himself has revealed he will not be swimming any distance events, meaning the 400 IM, as he prepares for Rio in 2016.
With the 2013 FINA World Championships on deck next summer in Barcelona, Spain, expect Lochte to be there competing in 200 IM and 100 meter events. He has not confirmed whether or not he will train for the 200 backstroke. It’s not uncommon for swimmers to experiment in a post Olympic year. Lochte, now 28 years old, has expressed interest in focusing on his power and speed more, which sounds like the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly.
By the way, love the arrow shoot out videos. He was also excellent with Joan Rivers on Fashion Police and in the game he played there, Starlet or Streetwalker (funny!).
100 Fly or breast?
100 fly. Lochte got 3rd at US Trials with a 51 mid.
Lochte could skip the 400IM (and the training required) and keep the 200 IM, and add the 100 fly. he’ll likely stay in the 200 free, and possibly go the 100 or 200 back. If I were him, I’d try the 100 back because in such a short race, the 2 walls matter so much and no one can challenge him on those (plus he tended to take out almost every 200 too fast at the Olympics and died. WIth his strongman style of strength training, it lends itself to sprinting more than longer distance…i think that the proof was in the last 25 meters of those 200 at the Olympics).
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if lochte doesn’t swim 200 back next year, it is quite possible that ryan murphy, jack conger, or jacob pebley will make the world championships team. nick thoman is a 1:57.0, while murphy, conger, and pebley are 1:57.4 and 1:57.2, and 1:57.5. these three, being significantly younger than all of the other competitors in the US at this level, are more likely to drop more time (we could even see 1:55s by next year). there is also cory chitwood (1:57.4), but we cannot be sure that he (or thoman, for that matter) will still be swimming, and the same goes for him in terms of time drops.
Bond, it’d be good to see some new blood get a shot on the A-Team….
Mel, let’s travel back in time and tell that to Ron Karnaugh please.
Please explain the Karnaugh reference for those of us who don’t know much about him? Thanks.
Ron Karnaugh was an elite level swimmer at the age of around 30-33 years old (and before that as well, Olympian in 92). I used to swim with some guys who were just 1 spot away from making the US National team, but would get beat by Ron Karnaugh every time, so we would jokingly say that we wished that old man would retire or like Mel says, “new blood on the A team”. This was because Karnaugh as a 32-33 year old man was beating out 17-18 year old boys.
Oh yeah I remember him now, though I had to Google him based on what you said. He was the guy whose father died in Barcelona at the Olympics the day before he swam his 200 IM, brutal. I’d forgotten that he kept going after the 92 Olympics.
He needs to work on his 100 free…. (I know that’s bad, but…)
Yeah, yeah, everyone says they’re done with the 400 IM at one point or another. We know better…
kirk, I really think he’s done this time. 400 IM hurts, especially when you’re rolling into 30 years old. Still, I hear what you’re saying. After London gold, that’s Lochte’s best event.
He also saw first-hand what happened to Phelps without adequate training for the 4IM. If he wasn’t going all Hollywood on us, I’d say he might change his mind in a year (which he’d have to do at the earliest). But I think he’s gonna like the fashion and pop culture worlds, and he knows it, which is why he’s scaling down…