FINA World Championship Day 13 - What I should have been talking about today

Bad day at work and no pool to jump into that was less than 10 minutes away. I am still rattled over what a bad day it was but I am OK now. Day 13 was a very seminal day for planetary swimming for ten world records have been broken so far and lots of lessons learned about the dark arts of American swimming.

Summary of Day 13: We had Magnini and Hayden tie in the 100 free. Phelps got his his fourth gold in the 200 IM in a time of 1.54.86. Katie Hoff proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is not a land dwelling animal by dominating her leg in the 4 x 200 free relay assisting in taking 0.73 off Germany's world record mark. Jessicah Schipper gold a gold medal in the 200m butterfly giving the host country, Australia, the same amount of gold medals that, er, Michael Phelps has? Australia better throw a party for those girls post World Championships as a way of saying thank you.

Here is a nice recap from Generation Q: [Link]