Join us as we discuss the stars to watch in the upcoming US National Championships, including Anna Moesch, Ilya Kharun, Isabelle Stadden, and Caeleb Dressel.
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2026 US Nationals Preview Podcast
Join us as we discuss the stars to watch in the upcoming US National Championships, including Anna Moesch, Ilya Kharun, Isabelle Stadden, and Caeleb Dressel Current photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
echosmyron1278 on youtube: “Phelps retired at 31, and he was already slipping by then.”
Phelps set his last meaningful PB in 2011 (200 IM at Worlds), so I don’t see anything wrong with that statement. In Rio he won silver in the 100 fly with a 51.14, a time that would’ve finished 8th in Tokyo. Hell, he didn’t even swim the 400 IM at his final Olympics.
He was lucky to wrap up his career just before Dressel and Milak truly arrived.
Should have won 8 again
Just because you don’t go a PB, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re slipping.
Going PBs for him meant breaking WRs, which isn’t easy to do.
In his last Olympics, he won 5 Gold medals and 1 silver. Compared to 8 Gold Medals, I suppose it’s slipping, but 5 is pretty good.
I guess it’s depends on your definition of slipping.
My goat still looks good on cover images
Great preview! Any chance we’ll have a pick’em contest for nationals this year?
It would be up already.
semi-related take since Hunter Armstrong is swimming at nationals: He and other athletes competing clean at Enhance games kinda undermines the point a little, right? Like if the whole hustle was “look at our ‘enhanced’ athletes, watch as they shatter world records! And for the low-low price of even earlier male pattern baldness and $300 monthly, you too can be a superhuman” a clean athlete winning stuff subverts that.
Ik now Armstrong gives them leverage against the federations who ban all athletes who competed at the enhanced games(if that many even did), but that seems like such small potatoes to undercutting their own selling point. Maybe I’m thinking about this more than they ever did. and maybe no publicity… Read more »