Showing posts with label World Swimming Championships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Swimming Championships. Show all posts

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Timed finals is creating a "fantasy swim game" for World Swimming Championships; pass it on!

Athens Gold medalist, Scott Goldblatt; [His name is now spelled correctly and the correct medal placing as well], has created a really nice swimming related blog called Timed Finals. It is so current and topical that even Google News links to it. (That's a photo of Scott chilling with Michael Phelps.)

As the headline states, they are expanding the blog by adding a FREE fantasy swim game called FantaSwim. I copy pasted this promo for it from Timed Finals. I am going write a review once I am allowed in.
  • Timed Finals announces the imminent launch of FantaSwim, the first ever chance for swimming fans to compete interactively with each other across the globe in a Fantasy Swim League for the World Championships in Melbourne at the end of the month. This will provide swimming fans the opportunity to be even more involved in what’s happening down under.
  • FantaSwim will not just be limited to the World Championships. Timed Finals will be running FantaSwim for most major competitions, but our first event will be the World Champs.
  • In typical Timed Finals fashion, FantaSwim will be 100% free for our readers. Check back soon to enter the game for the World Champs.
In a world where your life is not your own; in a land where no man is king; this March, in a deadly game of cat & mouse; 22 USA Olympians will face the world down-under in the land of Oz.

The actual headline read: "Twenty-Two Olympians To Swim For Team USA At World Swimming Championships". But I prefer a "Don LaFontaine", "voice of God", hyperbolic, headline to make it more jazzy. Yeah, that's what swimming needs, more hyperbole.

Great article which sums up who to look at and what exciting contests await this month at World Championsips. In other words, it details what events will be hotly contested, namely Ian Crocker versus Michael Phelps in the 100 fly et cetera, Larsen jensen versus Grant Hackett, and others so people like me can invest themselves in it.

The article can be read here: [Link]