This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discussed the Australian championships, the Mare Nostrum stop in Monaco and the 2024 Olympic Trials Cuts. See below for full list of topics:
AUSSIE TRIALS
- Ariarne Titmus world record – Will she go faster at Commonwealths? Does this make Ledecky’s 800/1500 WRs seem more attainable?
- Zac Stubblety-Cook WR – Will ZSC take it out fast at worlds? or use back-end speed like he has been?
- Women’s freestyle depth – what would it mean for Shayna Jack’s legacy to win 4+ gold medals?
- Chalmers/Simpson – For once, SwimSwam is not the bad guy! What is Cody Simpson‘s ceiling for Commonwealths?
MARE NOSTRUM – MONACO
- Old people show speed (Bruno Fratus, Nichoals Santos, Sarah Sjostrom)
- Matt Sates pro debut – seems like a good decision for him
- Lydia Jacoby huge bounce back after missing Worlds team
SINK or SWIM
- Patrick Callan goes to Cal – Will Cal defend their title next year?
- Kaylee McKeown swims the 400 IM at World Champs
- Catie DeLoof in Loughborough – will we see her make an international team before Olympics after missing trials?
- USA Releases 2024 Olympic Trials standards – Too Fast, Just Right, or Too Slow?
Will only comment on a few items
Chalmers/Simpson: AUS media can be fairly feral; and this was red meat. You have, however, overlooked the social media side where the Cody fans (for whom the most part ignore the facts of the issue) also went feral. Thankfully it’s now yesterday’s news.
I completely concur with your read of the Shayna Jack situation as regards culpability and that the AUS broadcasters of these Trials were engaging in whitewashing. The reality is that she WILL, most likely, face international scrutiny when they get to Budapest. How she handles that and will it impact her performance can only be conjecture at this point.
Where I DO think you guys are wrong is touting her… Read more »
I’m glad I have no idea what this Simpson guy is known for out of the pool. He’s third place.
He is a singer (pop singer) who once dated Miley Sirus.
You’re obviously a fan of Miley Sirus.
I have 2 daughters who grew up watching Hannah Montana, so would not say a fan, more had to, so I could communicate with my daughters.
I think you butchered “Nagy” like no one before 🙂
Braden nailing it on two points in a row – international sport is almost wholly about nationalism and the Simpson/Chalmers thing is absolutely great “entertainment.”
I did legitimately get huffy at Titmus pointing out the Aussie 200 freestylers in comparison to the US’s and I want to see Ledecky just demolish her every time they race from now and forever because of it. Because nationalism! (I can say this place sucks, but you cannot!!)
And same thing on the storyline aspect of sports – it’s the absolute #1 reason why I could just never care about the ISL. It’s all the best swimmers in the world, swimming fast against each other but…I just don’t care. There’s no draw,… Read more »
I love a good bit of swimming drama. But media inventing stories about people’s personal life in order to question their character and spark social media attack is vile.
Oh for sure, that was just some dumb tabloid stuff. The specifics of that story isn’t exactly what I’d want to make storylines out of, but actual things like that would spice things up. (I thought it was pretty funny in a ridiculous way, but I don’t think many agree with me.)
Oh Steve, cry about it. Titmus will annihilate Ledecky in the 200 and 400 the next time they race. You’ll be so pissed mate
You’re such a snowflake
You regularly made fun of Aussie swimmers, but got so sensitive when Titmus is stating the Truth.
HYPOCRITE!
Peanut Gallery:
Zac-I guess he can play around with going out faster but fine line that it will probably cost him more coming home. I think before Kitajima, no one had won the Olympics in both 100 and 200 breasts. It is something like that. Remember some people can excel in 2fly but aren’t great in the 100!! Most people physical better suited for one over the other.
Chalmers vs Simpson- The athletes are much less dramatic about this rivalry than the fans. If wanted to make the Worlds team, he should have gone faster!
Monaco… Read more »
There was Sarah Sjostrom on the girls side and no one else. It should get much better at the last two stops.
Agree with most but another distance event is good and 50s swimmers are putting in the same work, just in a different way. Most likely more time in the gym and high intensity workouts, which is still putting in the work.
I do not agree your comment on fly. Milak, Phelps they are excellent on 100 and 200 fly but also LeClos, Cseh…The only exception is Dressel who can only swim the 100 on an exceptional level but not the 200.
Of course there are swimmers that can do both but some swimmers excel more in one than the other! Zac excels in 200 and trying to make him a 100 guy (especially for their relays) may hurt his 200?!? It isn’t cut and dry
Don’t forget that Dressel has only swam the 200 fly a few times and went a 1:56.2 at a no-stakes meet. We’ve never seen him swim a tapered 2fly. I’d argue it’s likely considerably better than his 2free.
I agree. I didn’t want the M800 or W1500 added to the Olympics and I certainly don’t want the stroke 50s. Swimming already has the most medals of any sport. It doesn’t need more.
Agree entirely. The degree of overlap in the 400/800/1500 is huge when you look at the all-time best performers and the form stroke 50″s have always looked Mickey Mouse.
Fratus too soft, can’t handle criticism. He looked shaved based on the IG fotos (including the legs).
One comment from Braden made him too nervous haha. I hope Dressel, Proud and Andrew/Liendo keep him off the podium.
Loool, that Bruno got mad about what Braden said about him and lost his sleep for 2 weeks just to prove him a wrong and make a salty video online like that. 😂😂
Like Braden said, instead of embracing the entertainment value of the sport, they get mad about a single sentence said about them.
@Braden Keith, Keep doing you Braden, he‘s too sensitive. He can‘t accept the fact that Ben Proud and Caeleb Dressel are better than him.
What happened with Bruno?
He posted a video on IG of Braden predicting him not going 21.4 anymore in this point of his career.
On that note, Brett Hawke’s comment… Interesting.
Hawke is an absolute joke and a known Swimswam hater. 😆😆
He’s trying to stay relevant in 2022.
Apparently Brett blames swimswam for him getting fired. Anyone who knows Brett isn’t surprised to learn that he struggles to take responsibility for his own actions.
I laughed when I saw him do a podcast with Garrett or Mel and try to proclaim that he doesn’t have time for grudges, when he clearly still holds a grudge.
Sucks that he’s dragging Bruno into his hole of misery with him. Brett burns every bridge he touches. Don’t get too close or he’ll burn you too.
Booooo
Kaylee has already decided to swim, in addition to her usual 100/200 back, the 400 IM at CWGs and the 200 IM at WCs. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1ZgUihCof/
Braden thinks Kaylee will win 400im because Summer Mcintosh is 15 and unproven.Well I think 4 :29 is pretty good for a 15 year old, and at 15 can she get better?, well I think thats very probable.Small meet…she went to the Olympics and swam great after just turning 15.The race will be decided in the pool but to belittle Summer,s accomplishments is sad.