2024 MARE NOSTRUM TOUR – MONACO
- June 1-2, 2024
- Prince Albert II Pool at the Stadium Louis II
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet central
- Results
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Live stream ($)
Swiss Olympic medalist Noe Ponti put up solid in-season swims at the Mare Nostrum stop in Monaco, clocking 51.25 in the 100 fly (2nd), 1:55 in the 200 fly (4th), and 23.3 in the 50 fly (1st). In the longer two butterfly events, Ponti was beaten both times by world record holder Kristof Milak.
Specifically in the 100, Ponti was gaining ground on Milak until the last 10 meters when Milak pulled away. After the race, Ponti said he was pretty happy given where he is at in his season and hopefully next time, he can come out on top against Milak.
I read this as “No point in racing Kristof Milak in Monaco”
I thought I was the only one
Milak owns Ponti lol. Completely rent free
Thank god Ponti didn’t go to NC state, he would’ve regressed horribly
Yeah just look at the washed Kacper and Diehl
Berkoff is the exception
25 year old Kacper get ready to learn bussing dishes. Masiuk is the polish backstroker.
Diehl is somehow worse now at NC State than when he was 16, remember when NCS “fans” were ecstatic when he arrived a semester early, only for him to score 3 points at NCAAs
The same will happen to Kai Winkler who has been trending downwards since his linsanity summer at 16 and Sarkany will go back to Hungary after 2 weeks of getting worse. Oh, and I’d be surprised if Betlehem made it to campus
NC State trending well for another 5th place finish
I like that Milak is referred to by three different last names in this article lol. Maybe Milk can be his new nickname, Milan isn’t as fun since he isn’t Italian.
When mistakes becomes mitakes becomes mitaks becomes Milak’s
The way the article title is worded makes it sound like Milák is already in Ponti’s head
I didn’t intentionally word it that way and from Ponti’s general air, that’s not the vibe I got.
Honda expressed a similar sentiment after his race also (interview coming later in the week). Everyone wants to beat Milak because he’s the man to beat. I think there’s a difference between someone being in your head/having your number (Denver nuggets with Lakers for last 2 years) vs someone just being better than you.
Though Honda and Ponti are both great competitors… they’ve never beaten Milak once. And it’s not like there have been close races on big stages. So until one of them wins, I tend to lean more toward competitors not being afraid of Milak or Milak being in their… Read more »
The Lakers are just not a very good team though and the Nuggets have the best player in the world
Nuggets have beat the Lakers something like 12 times in their last 13 matchups. It went to 10 straight before the Lakers finally got a singular win against them in this post-season. I wouldn’t fall for the “best player in the world” part considering the Lakers have one of the best options to guard him in Anthony Davis.
I have to imagine Milak lives in their head rent free a little bit at least. Honda has been talking about how he is gonna beat him since 2021. Ponti’s main event is the 100, which Milak hasn’t really dominated on the World stage (in Europe on the other hand…), so idk, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Would you say Phelps was simply better, or was he in his competitors’ heads?
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Both. Laszlo Cseh never beat Phelps once, once even getting 3 silvers in Beijing behind him.
Leading into Rio he had gone 1:52.9 in the 200 fly, and could have contended for gold, but he choked bad. Phelps was in his head, and that was kinda clear when he was on Brett Hawke’s podcast.
You screwed up embedding the video in the article.
Should be fixed now.
This was scheduled for June 6th, but went public today, June 5th. I’ve set to public over and over, rescheduled it several times, etc.. It’s live on desktop, not on mobile. It’s live on our youtube channel. I think accessing on mobile you won’t see it for awhile because the page is cached on certain devices. On mobile you can click the link and see it on youtube.