This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the distance revolution, Australia and China’s speed in the long course pool, and how we should be timing practice swims.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 0:25 Katie Grimes, Luka Mijatovic, Claire Weinstein, and Luke Ellis spearhead the Distance Revolution
- 10:39 The Olympic Trials Tickets Situation
- 18:40 Big Swims in Australia & China
- 25:10 Analyzing Australia’s Roster for the 2024 Doha World Champs
SINK or SWIM
- 30:47 After Swimming 2:20.3 in the 200 Breast, will Tatjana Schoenmaker repeat as Olympic champ?
- 34:37 Should practice times be timed starting when an athlete’s feet leave the wall?
- 38:37 Which Rio 2016 Champ is most likely to reclaim gold in Paris: Kyle Chalmers, Ryan Murphy, or Greg Paltrinieri?
I finally had time to listen to the podcast.
Ug. Swimmers prove agin they are the some of the worst business people on earth with ticket pricing for trails:
1) they increase number of tickets with larger capacity stadium then then raise prices – ever hear of scarcity and supply and demand driving pricing?
2) they alienate their best customers – the ones who bought early by providing discounts to folks who wait thus creating a penalty for buying early
Though I was not in on these decisions, my guess is they rented the larger facility at greater cost, which drove ticket prices to increase, since they calculated only a marginal increase on total attendance.
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Lol just realised the title of this podcast is a snipe at Brett Hawke. Love the shade
coleman: welcome to the swimswam podcast. today’s guest is olympic champ and 2-time world champion, ahmed hafnaoui. ahmed, you got pretty close to some WRs. can you talk to me about how you did it?
ahmed: I exclusively swam 2km time trials and 30×100 on 1:30
Brett and his fellow #sprintrevolution would never admit it, but a distance swimmer doing 30×100 on 1:30 at race speed is exactly what he has been preaching about swimming fast in practice, just appropriately adjusted for a distance swimmer.
But many of these #sprintrevolution folks have tunnel vision when it comes to training, and they would see 30×100 and just dismiss it right then and there.
distance revolution is here and i love it especially as a distance swimmer myself
Also I wish we got some talk about that women’s gold reclamation poll.
Yeah there are a couple good ones that certain are within the same realm of reasons as the mens examples ie,
Lilly King 100 breast
Simone Manuel 100 free (well i can dream) (Is Penny Oleksiak healthy idk, lets have a repeat tie)
+ ledecky 200/400 free but i feel thats more unlikely but you never know
Yeah I think King’s prolly the most likely? As far as I remember she was still p good last year. (Though with breaststrokers ya never know, could just fall off a cliff.)
And I give Manuel a bigger shot than most, it’s not like she was ever really a huge favorite before.
I think Ledecky and Sjostrom have slim odds of even entering those events, let alone winning. And then Belmonte seems only slightly more likely than Hosszu to reclaim some golds.
Manuel is ranked 7th in the US this year. She may not have been a favourite any of the years she won but it would be quite shock for her to repeat.
I’m not putting much stock in that, just given her trajectory in the last year it’s trending well enough.
Though you’re right, there’s much more competition for those spots than in years past, but if she makes it onto the team individually? Hoo boy.
I think the “coaches watch” fervor is for when they start timing when a swimmer’s feet passes the T on the bottom of the pool, or in certain extreme cases, basically the flags.
It doesn’t matter how the hell you do it as long as it’s consistent.
Track races are started with a gun. NFL 40s are started whenever the runner takes off. They are different, but it’s the same every time.
Was there a Swimswam article about the Aussie roster for worlds?
https://swimswam.com/cam-mcevoy-shayna-jack-headline-australian-roster-headed-to-2024-world-championships/
Thank you…missed it.
Coleman said you weren’t initially planning to have a podcast this week but I’m glad you had one. I want one every week (I’ll give you next week off). Don’t want to speak for everyone else, but honestly my favourite content is just people talking about swimming. Even more interesting than swimmer interviews.
“Swimming is great but it’s not Taylor Swift”. Hilarious and true. I went to short course worlds in Melbourne last year and tickets were just over $60. That’s about $40USD. $200+ for trials is absurd.
Temple and Williamson were also the highlights for me lately. Like, still nowhere winning the men’s medley relay but does open the door for mixed medley.
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Depends on who other countries like China and GB send to worlds but I feel even with all their big guns (minus McEvoy in 50 free) skipping, they’ll have enough depth to do well, particularly on the women’s side. Like USA only has 5 women attending so will they even bother fielding any relays (knowing all but 1 person would also have to swim heats)?
True. Australian women have legitimate shots at all the relays and mixed relays. Men not so much.
But yeah depends so much on final roster. Predictions will be fun once we know more. Like, Curzan, Douglass and Grimes could win 7 individual golds between them in a weak field. Or in a strong field could win 1-2. So hard to judge yet
Titmus had surgery and missed training time so it’s not surprising she is skipping Doha.
I doubt she would have gone anyway but yeah there was no way she was going after all that happened