Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the Australian and Russian Trials, Cal Poly’s new $45M Football Facility, and preview the Indy Pro Swim.
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Aussie Trials, Egor Kornev, And Indy Pro Swim Preview | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN
we discuss the Australian and Russian Trials, Cal Poly's new $45M Football Facility, and preview the Indy Pro Swim. Current photo via Delly Carr/Swimming Australia
With the increasing depth of distance racing, I think the pursuit and chance of a WR at a big meet is going to decrease, as swimmers look more towards “championship” style racing with the goal of just winning the race rather than risking going at an all-out pace.
It will depend on the competition and whether Wiffen and Finke show to be competitive, but Short may feel he has the freedom to go for it at CG/PPs (there is also an added financial incentive for breaking a WR at CGs for Short) but he also might not if it’s going to be a close race.
wiffen has been anything but competitive this year, so comm games will not be a close race
hey now, he just needs a few weeks to get back to his bests!
You were a little off in terms of the makeup of both teams.
Comm Games had stricter criteria for relay qualification (and a smaller cap), while Pan Pacs had a stricter qualification for individual events. So the extra swimmers who are only doing Pan Pacs (Giuliani, Wunsch, Jansen, Swinburn) were basically chosen for relays but weren’t top 4 so couldn’t be chosen for Commies.
Also more than just those 4 (McEvoy, Chalmers, S Jack, Temple) are skipping PPs. Southam and Allan are also skipping, while Neill and Cole presumably weren’t selected based on criteria. Australian men are missing 3/4 100 winners, and missing 2nd in the 100. The relays are going to be a curb stomp lol.
Coleman’s comments about… Read more »
Thank you for the clarifications on Comm Games and Pan Pacs rosters. Much appreciated!
I did NOT say Short ONLY swims fast on home soil. I actually spoke a lot about how he’s been swimming very fast in season all over the globe. However, I do believe it’s easier to swim fast in your own time zone. That’s not just Short, that’s universal. Of note, Japan is 1 hour behind Eastern Australia… pretty close.
In regards to Kaylee, she’s broken 8 WRs in her career over SCM and LCM. 4 of them have come in Australia. The other 4 have come during World Cups, where you get a very high amount of racing in a short time. None… Read more »
He swam fast in US earlier in the year.
He had been ill and injured prior to Paris.
He literally had Gastroenteritis in Singapore.
Thanks to the USA swimmers and management – constantly talking about “food poisoning” so that they could go on pool deck and then they infected everyone else. Mind you, I think even Short called it food poisoning.
Yup. So many swimmers from other countries got infected after US team spread the disinformation that they had food poisoning instead of the actual gastroenteritis.
US swimmers should have been quarantined and not allowed to go to the pool after arrival from Thailand.
Has Regan broken a WR at a major international meet?
yeah 2019 worlds she broke her first 2 world records in the 100bk off a relay and 200bk indivisually but like im confused how this relates to colemans comment
He said Kaylee had not broken a WR at a major international meet. Regan has not either since 2019.
Two in 2019
Her first 2 WRs were at World Championships – 200 back in the semifinal and 100 back leading off the medley relay final.
Edit: sorry, just saw this already answered.
Kaylee’s performances at major meets (where she of course won gold 🥇every time) vs “at home”
2021 Tokyo: 57.47 (+0.02s over trials time), 2:04.68 (+0.4s over trials time)
2022 Budapest: 2:05.08 (0.23s faster then trials)
2023 Fukuoka: 57.53 (+0.03s over trials time), 2:03.85 (+0.15 over trials time)
2024 Paris: 57.33 (OR/PB, 0.08 faster than trials), 2:03.73 (OR, +0.43s over trials)
2025 Singapore: 57.16 (CR/PB 0.55s faster than trials), 2:03.33 (CR, 1.14s faster than trials)
So I don’t think the data suggests:
1/ Kaylee swims significantly faster domestically compared to a major championship final
2/ she only swims fast in Asia due to similar time zones. Budapest was an off year where she didn’t even race the… Read more »
Thanks 👏
Thanks for the facts!
Some people are still trying to undermine Kaylee achievements.
They know they can’t deny the medals and world records, so they go with “Kaylee only swim fast in Australia” route.
There have been many Aussies who haven’t backed up at major champs after posting fast times at trials. But Kaylee is the absolutely worst swimmer to be accused of that because she is the most clutch racer I’ve ever seen. Not losing a single 100/200 majors race this decade when you’re constantly competing against a current/former WR holder is insane
Data and facts – love it!
Also strange swim swam still thinks future Kaylee vs Regan races are a 50/50 toss up….
You just know they’re gonna start picking Stadden to win next year.
Many of the Aussie stars did just ok in Paris despite being on the other side of the globe:
Fast Paris times despite slow pool examples.
Kaylee PB 100bk
Titmus PB 800free
ZSC 200br – faster than trials
Mckeon – much faster 100free relay splits vs trials when missing out on individual
Yes less travel can help, but does not limit those who are capable ad prepare well.
I think Short improves in Glasgow. He has no reason to be fully rested for trials, and I think he mis-paced a couple of his races.
Re Kaylee: her current 50 back PB is from Europe at a World Cup (and the current WR, but she also set a PB at World Champs in 2023), her current 100 back PB is from Singapore (at the major meet, 0.03 off the WR), and her third fastest 200 back is also from Singapore (which is faster than anyone else in history has ever been). All 3 of her backstroke SCM PBs are from North America.
So 5/6 of her PBs are from outside Australia, and in the 6th event she has… Read more »
Coleman has a very weird take on Kaylee.
Regarding which country ends the year on top of 800free, advantage has to be with Australia, at Euros the 2 Germans that make the final will need to go all out in heats to beat their own countrymen before they even swim a final so I don’t see anything absurd happening in this situation. The only other country that may deliver something mental (which is what is required to outdo what Sam Short has already delivered) is Tunisia in my opinion.
Advantage Australia 🦘.