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Hear 12x Olympic medalist and Spire Ambassador Ryan Lochte describe the race strategy that won him the 200 Free World Title in 2011. In the race, he planned to go underwater for 15m off the 100 free wall, passing Michael Phelps and keeping the lead for the last 100 meters.
Watch the full race video here:
We went to a very special practice in Geneva, Ohio: a SPIRE Academy Swim Camp featuring SPIRE Ambassador Ryan Lochte. See it the PRACTICE + PANCAKES with Lochte here.
Ryan was a super talented swimmer who beat a bunch of other super talented, hard working swimmers that day. Michael Phelps is human, give Ryan Lochte credit it, he was a super athlete too and swam a great race!
I have always felt that Ryan’s textile suit 4:05 400 IM should be the real record as opposed to phelps’s 4:03 in the banned suit. For me, Ryan still has two world records! No doubt Phelps would have swum even faster if he did not swim in so many events. We were blessed to see both of them swim, that’s for sure.
yes and no… It should stand as the textile record. but the real record is Phelps. as phelps was not using a banned suit at the time.
Same situation with Crocker and Phelps 100 fly. Crocker 50.4 textile, took phelps a couple years to beat that in a super suit. but still stands as WR.
Swimmers know though.
? why would crockers 50.4 still stand as the textile record? like 3 people have gone faster than that since then in textile
at the time, before someone broke it.
I did not expect Biedermann to be that lean there. All you ever heard for a bit was how he was “fat” in 2009 when he broke all those WRs.
I don’t think people were saying he was “fat”. It’s just that he’s not lanky like Phelps or Lotche, he’s more stocky. The suits really helped people like him by increasing floatation and compressing the right places.
Right, which I will now reclassify as him just knowing that being extra plump would be an advantage in ’09.
Most of the people the criticize Bidermann dont know that in broke the european record in the 200m at the Mare nostrum that year with a regular arena textil. I watched him swim at that meet with tgextil suit. So the minute I swam him with a good suit )the banned suit in rome, i knew he was untouchable. Also he swam most of his career with terrible Adidas suits (leggings). The moment he switched to a normal suit he was imediatly one o fthe best in the world. People should give him some credit even though he didnt win an olympic medal.
5 guys under 1:45!
Lochte was in the form of his life, Phelps was in a very different phase of his career. Still, both fantastic swimmers, who managed to “hijack” the 200 free without being really freestyle specialists.
“How Ryan Lochte Beat Michael Phelps at the 2011 World Championships”… Showed up to practice every day.
2011 is the 2nd greatest individual performances of all-time I believe.
I can’t see how it’s better than Mike in 07.
2011 is good but 07 MP was on another planet. He was the best butterfly, the best IMer, best 200 freestyler, swam a lead off 100 free that could’ve won him the individual title at worlds, and swam if I remember the second fastest 100 & 200 back strokes at the time at Nationals later that year. 2007 MP was a freakshow.
If he hadn’t broken his wrist late in 07, his Beijing games might have been even freakier.
He beat MP because he was faster.
Faster in the 200 IM than Phelps ever was!