This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss Shaine Casas going Pro, Noe Ponti leaving NC State to head home to Switzerland, and the Chinese National Games. See our full list of topics below:
- Three-time NCAA champion Shaine Casas is planning on turning professional.
- The Aqua Centurions’ win in ISL’s Match #10 cements their placement in the Playoff round of competition and sets up the lineup for the Play-In Match next week.
- Swiss swimmer Noe Ponti, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalist in the 100 fly, has decided to leave North Carolina State University after a month and return to his training base in Switzerland.
- The 2021 China National Games were completed over the weekend, with one week of action taking place at the Xi’an Olympic Sports Center Swimming and Diving Hall
Sink or Swim
- Does winning medals after serving a doping suspension taint them? (Brought up in this article about Shayna Jack)
- Are hand-touches the way to go at the 100 checkpoint of the 400 free in the ISL?
- Is Mark Schubert, after retiring from Mission Viejo, actually done coaching?
- Did this weekend in the NCAA swimming get you excited for what’s to come?
- Is leaving an open lane in an ISL event a good strategy?
- Will Adam Peaty’s dance moves carry him to victory? (And keep him from ISL?)
Believe that Funding in China is based on each Province’s finish at Chinese Nationals. Their competing for money! Also, drug testing is lax. Previously, you would see Chinese swimmers have World rank times but not show up at International meets because they would be tested.
Combing through some archived comment threads on Swimming World’s website, there have been concerns regarding doping control at Chinese Nats since at least 2008. I’ve also seen/heard similar stuff about the Maria Lenk Trophy in Brazil. I think it is fair to give the benefit of the doubt to swimmers who are major international players, like Xu, Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun, etc. But those no-name swimmers who thrown down domestically yet don’t do anything at WC and OG have to raise an eyebrow.
Pancakes and practice are coming back. That’s is awesome. It was always refreshing and intriguing to see how and what other teams are doing. Blended with some solid jams, this has been greatly missed. Can’t wait to see next vid.
I don’t think the rest of the panel really got what Braden was saying re:Jack’s doping. (In that she’ll continue to benefit from w/e doping she did for the rest of her career.)
It’d be like if I took a bunch of tren for a year or two and then stopped. I’m still gonna be extra jacked because of that for a good long time, no matter if I test “clean” and get reinstated once I stop.
That depends on if the ingestion was intentional or in fact comtamination because ingestion of a pharmacologically insiginifcant amount is not gonna leave long term performance enhancing changes. This is a question that can’t ever be answered with any certainty.
Pharmacologically insignificant amounts will not even have short term/immediate performance enhancement. Unfortunately I think most unscientific people are unable to grasp how truly negligible these levels are. She had no metabolites detected and metabolites breakdown slower than the actual drug. Your body has to metabolize a drug to use it. Nothing was metabolized.
Didn’t her hair sample prove she hadn’t been doping in any long term capacity at all?
It had been determined that the amount in her system, as well as the biomarkers, wouldn’t have been indicative of long-term build-up. That still does not prove it was unintentional in any capacity, or that she wasn’t cycling it on and off. SARMS as weird in that they are easy to test for while in your system, but are in and out relatively quickly.
you guys gotta call this segment the swimswam catch-up feels like a missed opportunity
Catch-up drill is dead tho.
Is it actually? I’ve never heard of this. Genuinely curious
Of course not. 11 position is important to learn when teaching swimming which evolves into catch up.
Maybe go on a pool deck for practice a little more Braden.
Catch-up drill is fantastic when your stroke get short and hips come out of alignment. Can be a very good active cool down between fast swims in practice too.
Concerning the Shayna Jack comments, I think Americans rationalize when Americans test positive and continue to swim vs rest of world!
yes agreed.
I think most people rationalize when the person in question is on “their team”,
Planning on turning pro and going pro is not the same smh
Why are people down voting this