Olympic and world champion Kyle Chalmers just had one of the best in-season meets of his career last month at the Australian Open, going lifetime bests in the 50 free (21.9) and 50 fly (23.1) as well as a 47.6 in the 100 free. This is coming on the heels of moving clubs to train with Ash Delaney at St. Andrews on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
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Ramsay went 4:11.49 for a 4 second PB in the 400 free having already dropped 5 seconds this season. Bodes well for her IMs.
fairweather scratched the 400 free in sydney
This bloke is an out and out champion! GO KYLE!🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺
Deciding to not play AFL because it’s an Olympic year and then agreeing to do so “just for 5 minutes” only to snap 3 ligaments after 3 minutes of play, and then worsen the injury by training on it for a further two weeks, is the most Chalmers thing ever. It’s almost as though he doesn’t know how to compete without having surgery every other year
I’m glad that he’s skipping the 4×200. At best, Australia is fighting with Korea and China for bronze behind GB and USA. And as he said, he only lost in Tokyo by 0.06s so who knows how much the relay took out of him
He prob has a decent chance of that… Read more »
You can twist your ankle crossing the street.
I once put my back out scooping ice cream out of a tub lmao
Weeks of physio didn’t fix it, multiple acupuncture didn’t fix it and then – of all things – a chiropractor kind of picked me up from behind in a bear hug and cured me instantly lol
We humans and our bodies are weird.
I’ve had the “bear hug” manipulation done before. Great relief for upper back pain.
Once ruptured a biceps tendon moving (too) quickly to steady a tub of cottage cheese.
champion went 51.28 3 weeks ago, so it’s not entirely open
Champion’s already been 51.2 this year.
“My best mate Ash Delaney”
Welcome to Dumpsville: Population Matt Temple…
lmao J/K King Kyle
Temple is no longer best mate and has instead been upgraded to wifey status.
He’s a wifey now? What happens when he finds out about Inge?
Sad to think he may be gone from swimming in 3 months….
He’s already said he’s not retiring soon.
That’s great…he suggested early in his career it would be short… Happy to be proven wrong!
Did you even listen to the interview ? When he talked about the young relay boys
King Kyle is always such a good interview. Sounds like his training has been going swimmingly so I can’t wait to see what he’s been cooking up.
An interesting listen.
He set two 50 PBs at nationals so seems like he might be cooking up something special for Paris.
Considering skipping the 200 relay so he can be all in for the 100. I am hoping that we get some breakouts and he won’t be top 4 anyway.
Definitely sounds like he’ll be factor in Paris!
Sure does! When he’s on-song, the difference he makes to the Aust team is huge.
In addition to the 200Fr, I was esp. interested in what he said about the 100Fly, and his MMR ambitions there (I guess, as a heat alternate for Matt T?). Easy to see him pushing very hard for that 2nd spot at Trials, or even just 3rd – confirming he’s a legit back-up Fly leg if the main 2 need a rest.
Also, I was really surprised that he’s never done a full comp-prepped 50Free! Kind of obvious on reflection, it just hadn’t occurred to me before.
Issues not covered, that would have been of interest:
- views on his main int’l competition in
… Read more »Oh – and I was wondering what sort of 100Back time his new coach can still throw down… 😛
a) he would diplomatically say ‘all of them’ – he wouldn’t focus on one swimmer or country
b) that might be interesting – perhaps he might consider that type of training post-Paris
c) it would be ‘no comment’ – it’s not his business to speak about someone else so no point even asking
Ash Delaney has done really well with sprinters. Not sure the program there would help Kyle’s 200 anyway. Better to focus on the sprints.
Kyle has been a consistent very good (1:45 low to mid) split for a long time. However, if our other swimmers truly get the “Olympic boost” then I would hope that we could field 4 1:44s
that’s more of a best case scenario and probably won’t all come together in the same race. we’re not great britain, after all. we’ve only seen 3 1:44s from this group, and taylor is the only one I would rely on hitting it again. the other candidate would probably be winnington, who could be on track for a 200 pb then hit 1:44 on a flying start