Dressel sets American 100 meter record!!

Swimming is g@y.

Literally no one cares wrote:

Swimming is g@y.

Thats what most say about running...

Yeah, because Americans haven't done well with freestyle before???

He'd still lose to that shark.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Yeah, because Americans haven't done well with freestyle before???

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Well, actually, I believe these are the first medals that American men have received in the freestyle for this World Championship. The 200, 400, 800, and 5k & 10k open water have already been completed and they had no medals until today.

I think Americans excel only in the weird, slow strokes.

Not far from the world record. Was that 2009 world record set with a now banned speed suit? Why is reaction time so slow compared to sprinters? Because they go by sound and not smoke?

zxcvzxcv wrote:

Not far from the world record. Was that 2009 world record set with a now banned speed suit? Why is reaction time so slow compared to sprinters? Because they go by sound and not smoke?

Yup, that 2009 record was done with the now banned speed suit. Not sure why they haven't dropped those records, but it's impressive Dressel was close to this time.

I think the reaction is slower because they push off with both legs close to each other instead of one being far in front of the other? IDK

You may believe that but you would be wrong. Aside from already winning the men's 4x100 relay and Dressel's gold...

Townley Haas won the silver in the 200 Free.

Jordan Wililmovsky won the silver in the 10K.

Last year in Rio the American men won medals in all the freestyle events except the 400 Free (Ervin in the 50, Adrian in the 100, Dwyer in the 200, and Jaeger in the 1500 Free). And American women won gold in all the freestyle events except the 50 free.

In terms of medals no country wins more medals in freestyle except in rare circumstances like Melbourne 1956 or Worlds in Fukuoka 2001 when Thorpe and Hackett were in their prime. You might want to brush up on your swimming knowledge.

USA is doing fine. And I love the new Olympic Channel fully covering the morning heats every day.

There's a Canadian recently retired swimmer doing the color commentary on those morning heats. I think the over/under on how many times she uses the word "Absolutely" is 23.5 every day.

The Olympic channel is good, but I noticed there's Floswimming! i hope its not as bad as Flotrack!

PedantFactChecker wrote:

You may believe that but you would be wrong. Aside from already winning the men's 4x100 relay and Dressel's gold...

Townley Haas won the silver in the 200 Free.

Jordan Wililmovsky won the silver in the 10K.

Last year in Rio the American men won medals in all the freestyle events except the 400 Free (Ervin in the 50, Adrian in the 100, Dwyer in the 200, and Jaeger in the 1500 Free). And American women won gold in all the freestyle events except the 50 free.

In terms of medals no country wins more medals in freestyle except in rare circumstances like Melbourne 1956 or Worlds in Fukuoka 2001 when Thorpe and Hackett were in their prime. You might want to brush up on your swimming knowledge.

Well, actually, since the topic was men's freestyle, Italy leads with 5 medals, then it's France and US tied with 4.

Not including relays as that is more of a circus event (like in track) done between a few countries.

I know.Sorry there is no sarcasm font...

PedantFactChecker wrote:

In terms of medals no country wins more medals in freestyle except in rare circumstances like Melbourne 1956 or Worlds in Fukuoka 2001 when Thorpe and Hackett were in their prime. You might want to brush up on your swimming knowledge.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Yeah, because Americans haven't done well with freestyle before???

He'd still lose to that shark.

First WC gold for US in 100 free since 2001. First time since 1978 US went 1-2 in 100 free.

He went 50.08 in 100 fly this am. 0.2s+ off super suited Phelps WR. Fastest ever in textile.