On Thursday, at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships, Stanford senior David Nolan swam the fastest 200 yard IM in history, with a 1:40.07 that just beat-out Ryan Lochte’s post-NCAA 1:40.08 for the new U.S. Open Record.
Below, Stanford assistant media relations director Alan George Tweeted out the full race video. Read more about the record-breaking swim here.
The best 1:40.07 of your day will be spent watching David Nolan set the American record in the 200 IM … http://t.co/ciHBvLAXFV
— Alan George (@VandyGeorge) March 9, 2015
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Wonderful to see him break through. I wonder what his coaches did differently this year?
Practically speaking, how would you propose converting all of the pools in America to meters?
Even on my phone that was fun to watch. Good for him.
Does it look like to anyone else he took two dolphins kicks off his second breaststroke turn?
I actually thought so too, but I watched it a couple more times and he definitely doesn’t. Just a weird effect of the surface water/angle I think. When they show that turn in slow-mo, you can see more closely the part where it looks like he does the first dolphin kick. However, from that angle, there is clearly no movement on his part.
*Blinks*
I thought there was a video???
Interesting observation: In his 2011 swim (1:41.3) he did NOT do a bucket turn, but rather just a standard back/breast turn. By adding in the bucket turn, I bet that’s where he’s getting a big part of the bump down in his breaststroke split. That said, as others have pointed out, his pulldown off that wall looked strange. Maybe there’s room for even more improvement.
I can’t still understand why David Nolan doesn’t go much faster in long course.
He doesn’t have crazy special underwaters to only explain the fast times like many pure short course swimmers and has a pretty good technique in all strokes.
That’s not possible to see him not swim one day at least 1.56 in the big pool.
I really hope he can change that before US olympic trials.
I’m not a specialist like most of you so what’s the problem?
From the interview at the Stanford-Cal dual meet, it seemed to me that school was a very big priority, and how could it not be at a school like Stanford with a major like bio-chem or whatever science he is doing. I know when I talk with my college coach about off-season training, he always tries to warn me that the farther along in college you are, the harder it is to train in the off season due things like summer internships that have to do with your major and things like that. So maybe he just doesn’t put a lot of focus on summer swimming. That scenario is most likely just wishful thinking on my part though.
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Thanks.
Hopefully that’s the first option. 🙂
Because history is made in long course internationally.
Just appreciate the swim for what it is: An incredible accomplishment. Don’t place your own expectations and qualifications on it.