Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel appears to be returning to form.
Were you like me, worrying that this moment might not happen? When someone wins seven gold medals and starts a family, winning more Olympic gold feels–less important. Of course that narrative could go cut another way, and I think it has, that Caeleb Dressel is capitalising on his newfound “dad” strength. What do you think?
The Westmont Pro Swim was very promising. Caeleb ripped:
- 21.8 – 50m free
- 48.5 – 100m free
- 51.2 – 100m fly
In this interview Caeleb unpacks his races, including the 50 free block malfunction, his training cycle, and he plays the prediction game.
CAELEB DRESSEL PREDICTIONS….FROM CAELEB DRESSEL
Are Caeleb’s 2018 NCAA records in danger at the 2024 Men’s NCAA DI Championships?
Based on how Caeleb responded, he’s a fan at his core, and it sounds like he’d like to see his records fall. He clearly see Tennessee Volunteer Jordan Crooks as a threat in the 50 free. And he sees Florida Gator Josh Liendo as a threat in the 100 fly.
But who cares what Caeleb Dressel thinks. It’s all about what you think. Drop your comments below!
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100 fly : Liendo 42.7, Ramadan 42.9
100 free: liendo 39.8
50 free: crooks:17.8,liendo 18.00
LOL Liendo’s 50 free has been complete garbage this year
you are very optimistic
Wonder if we will see Caeleb and Cameron go back and forth with 50 free times in the lead up to Paris.
Dressel was 21.84 last week and McSprinter just responded with a 21.81
Someshing just doesn’t sit right with “as per the stopwatch you won by .03 of a second” when it takes a human .1-0.3 of a second to react to a stimulus. I understand why we need that procedure especially for levels below professional competition, but at the highest level with money on the line it seems a bit disrespectful to our intelligence to declare that we actually had any idea who out touched who.
PSS prize money is pretty small. Not saying it’s chump change but probably close. Imagine if this happened at a FINA World Cup or World Championship event!
Human reaction time is most certainly
Faster than .3
Mel, looking good! Thanks for video.
🙂
Guiliano is right on target for that 100 yards!
Dressel’s time at trials
100 free 47.8
50 free 21.4
100 fly 50.3
solid…would be happy to see those times…
That 100 free time prediction will maybe get him on the team, but only on the relay. I think he goes 47 low. He’s toying with his competition and that is evident the last 15 meters.
…Dressel on the Olympic relay is a win IMO. I’d like to see a fast swim at OTs, but I’m measuring hope in stages. 47.8 is solid step. Maybe he’ll pop 48 low in-season. That’ll change the calculus.
Well at least it’s an improvement from last year .
i’m kind of excited that Mel Stewart replied to one of my posts.
I’d say 100 fly is close to 50 flat.
39.90 17.63 42.80 is one of the most hard record’s to get
17.6 feels like like the toughest to me….
100 free is the toughest. Especially with this field
sub 40 hurts my brain, but I could see a near future where a lot of talent hovers around 40 flat.
The thing about the 100 free it’s that it’s on the last day so a lot of energy management comes into play
…you know what…I didn’t consider that. Puts that 39.9 in a whole new perspective. He ripped that on fried legs, and your legs are fried on day3.
He swam every relay and breaststroke in one of them, he also swam prelims at the time of the relays I think.
Of course at the time he was capable of a faster time but given the circumstances he delivered big time
Yeah everyone was super disappointed cause they thought he was going 39.2 or something lol. “He doesn’t break 39 but he breaks 40!!!”
Weird title for the article. I would’ve never known or imagined it was a Gold Medal Minute without seeing the YouTube video pop up last night.
Sorry. Got excited about his responds on this one question…