people without knowledge talk wrote:
bolt fan wrote:It would be be like Bolt doing the 100, 200, 400, 4 x 100, 4 x 400, lj and tj.
Totally ignorant statement.
Even most 100 meters swims a decent female swimmer is going be just over or just under a minute. The 100 in swimming is nothing like the 100 in track. The 200 in swimming is like an 800 - a controlled sprint for the best. 400 on up are endurance events. The men's WR for 1500 freestyle isn't much under 15:00.
You don't think that Rupp could have taken the 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000 at some crappy meets in his time?
Seems she also won the 400 IM and closed that with a really fast last 100 free [reported as 55.60 but some people apparently find that hard to believe since her 100M pr is 55.22.]
Fun fact: 2nd place in the 200m at this meet was 2:03.73, which is to say a slower pace than Ledecky swam for her 800m.