Ryan Murphy (photo: Mike Lewis)
Ryan Murphy, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, needs adrenaline. Ryan loves to race in a huge facility hearing the fans. Coming off of World Championships in Budapest was a little bit of a let down. Since Worlds, Ryan has had his nose to the grindstone, focusing a lot more on backstroke. He also got into training quicker this fall then last year. Without the tension of an NCAA Champs in March, Ryan does feel it will be a challenge to stay motivated over the long training haul of the spring, and he’s working on that with Cal Coach David Durden. Staying motivated could mean a spring meet he rests for or a test-set he’s challenged to improve on throughout the season. Whatever it is, we’ll follow up with him to hear the results in April.
Coming off of 2017 World Championships — bronze in the 100 back (52.59) and silver in the 200 back (1:54.21) — what does Ryan need to do to reclaim the glory of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio? Will 51.8 100 back and 1:53.6 200 back be enough to top the 2018 World Rankings? I think Ryan’s got 1:52+ 200 back and 51.3 100 back potential, but I think it’ll be 2019-20 before we see those swims. What do you think?
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Let’s get a GMM on Dressel and Lochte down at UF?
Ha…. Would love that.
Things I wonder about Dressel:
– what could he put down in a 500y free?
– how fast is he in an underwater 25?
– could he beat lochte in an underwater 25? If so, could he do it on repeat 25s?
– shaven, what could Dressel do in a 2-IM?
***Is Dressel the greatest swim-athlete we’ve witnessed at the Olympic level? Seems like he could be with his vertical leap.
– He can dunk, but how many ways can he dunk in b-ball? (Not that I want him to. I don’t think elite swimmers should do anything that “might’ cause an injury)
Forgot one – By how many body lengths will he beat Schooling in the 100 fly.
Donald! time for something new!
We get it…you don’t like Schooling, as if you haven’t said that a billion times before.
1:52+ 200 back surely is achievable, after all Lochte had been 1:52.96 in 2011.
With so many young backstroke talents coming up, to win gold in 2020, it’s better to aiming higher.
agreed….
***Is Dressel the greatest swim-athlete we’ve witnessed at the Olympic level? Seems like he could be with his vertical leap.??What a stupid statement up to now he is a relay gold medalist!
please keep it civil, respectuful and productive @Gregor
I see your point, but I do think we get caught up with Olympic medals only. Don’t get me wrong. I love playing the Olympic gold medal card. BUT after nearly 4 decades of watching swimming, the NCAA Champs is absolutely a strong enough event to measure an athlete’s talent/greatness (in some ways it equals the Olympic stage, or even surpasses it—yards, short pool, jumping off walls, explosiveness, super-high-intensity 3 day competition– The NCAA is the greatest swimming event on earth, and it’s a shame it’s not produced/promoted better). To be clear, I don’t think we’ve seen a pure athlete like Dressel in awhile. We all know what I’m talking about. Some swimmers are great, but for the most part… Read more »
Yeah, In college a few of us guys were tremendous athletes outside the pool but would lose to klutz goofs in the meets. There’s really no point in wondering such things and impossible to know anyway. Swimming is an awesome sport I love but it takes something different from soccer or basketball.
He is not talking about being the best swimmer ever he is saying is Dressel the best athlete who happens to be a swimmer ever…very different statements
Have some respect
Lol. Not for Tim shaw, for Mel
Yea. He hasn’t done anything at a high level to warrant that statement…..
Tim Shaw. Silver in swimming, silver in water polo.
I myself am a HUGE fan of Tim Shaw, but if you’re talking about swimmers who were also great at water polo, Johnny Weismuller probably takes the cake on that (5 golds in swimming, 1 bronze in water polo).