Sunday, March 21, 2010

0:44.77 takes the prize at the Connecticut State Open in the 100 Free - (Final Heat 4/4)





Have a good evening, I am going to bed but I leave you with some great fan videos with a marvelous POV from the upper deck. I added the 200-free at the last minute. Let me knows who wins, ok?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Tony:

David Nolan rewrote the national high school record book this weekend during the PA State High School Swimming Championships with his time of 1:43.43, in the 200 IM. Yes..the 200 IM!!

He added an additional record to the two that he set last night. This new record came in the 100 yard freestyle. Nolan swam a time of 43.27, a time that broke both state and NFHS records. Nolans next closest competitor came in with a time of 45.49

Chris DeSantis said...

Yale's pool is such a cool place to watch a swim meet. A bit antiquated- yes, but the cozy atmosphere and funnel like seating makes for a pretty awesome spectator experience.

Tony Austin said...

Six lanes too.

Q-Swim said...

Anonymous;

Interesting that Nolan broke these records, along with his teammates in the relay, without the benefit of a tech suit. I thought the records set during the tech suit era would take years to break because they created such an unfair advantage? Obviously NOT.

Q

Jason said...

Feigen set the 100 free overall and public school record with a 43.0 something. Nolan did not break that record.

His 200 IM did crush the former record set by Whitaker.

Chris DeSantis said...

Q-Swim,

Thats just crazy talk, and I don't want to hear it!

Q-Swim said...

Chris:

Not sure what you mean by "crazy talk" but do agree Yale Pool is a cool place to watch a meet. Back in the old days - when Yale was still a National power - I saw Yale break the National record for 400 M.R. in a dual meet against Stanford. The fans' standing ovation lasted through the next event, the 1000 free.

Q

Anonymous said...

Q-Swim wrote - "I thought the records set during the tech suit era would take years to break because they created such an unfair advantage? Obviously NOT."

I challenged Mr. DeSantis on another web site on exactly the same issue and he got quite upset, like he knew something about tech suits that the rest of us didn't

Chris DeSantis said...

Oh gosh. Q-Swim I think we've been on enough of these posts commenting alongside to know that I completely agree with you.

When you said "I thought the records set during the tech suit era would take years to break because they created such an unfair advantage? Obviously NOT." you took the words right out of my mouth.

Anon, not sure what discussion you are referring to, but my stance is clear: the decision to remove "the suits" was wrong, swimmers didn't get nearly enough credit for what happened over the last two years, and they will break those records from the "suit" era.

Tony Austin said...

Suits are coming back.

Though it is awesome that you can get all the swim equipment you need for less than $40, there is little money for athletes and/or sponsors to throw at NGBs, magazines, meets, events etc.

I want to change all that. QSwim is going to help me.

Q-Swim said...

Chris:

Thanks. It will be interesting to see records progression over next 12-18 months. I suspect that some of the swimmers who set records in tech suits will be motivated to prove that their time drops were true improvements and not simply the result of tech enhancement.

Q

Q-Swim said...

Chris:

Thanks. It will be interesting to see records progression over next 12-18 months. I suspect that some of the swimmers who set records in tech suits will be motivated to prove that their time drops were true improvements and not simply the result of tech enhancement.

Q