Michael Phelps about to try to qualify for his FIFTH Olympic Team...

Sorry backspace, that was directed at "thejeff".

Mismo wrote:

I read somewhere that he and Hailie G. have the same leg length despite a huge height difference because of optimal body shapes for their respective sports

It's from Epstein's book, The sports Gene, and it was El G with the same leg length

Limp biscuitt wrote:

You are a complete idiot. My father was an All American at Stanford in the 200 meter fly. No one in the swimming world refers to it as "butterfly". And, there is no "most important stroke". I swam competitively for a while before moving over full time into running, and the 200 fly is the most brutal event.

Congrats to your father!

Hopefully, he understands sarcasm better than you do, as well.

It's boss for sure but his legacy will always be tainted by the time he did that spot for subway where his fat ol "mom" tried to give him a "fully jacked" foot long in the pool...

His coach wouldn't let him do the sprints but Biedermann swam 1:42.00 ten months after pr'ing at 1:46. The difference was the swimsuit. IM and freestyles, both open and relay, involve all those strokes, by the way. His best 100m free split that I have seen was 47.15, which would be fifth on your list, and that was of course in the midst of many competitions. If he had concentrated on 50 and 100 free, he would no doubt own the world records today.

If you're going to talk about suits, I don't think Phelps ever swam in one from neck to wrist to toe like Thorpe. If you want to talk about advantages!

jjjjjj wrote:

His coach wouldn't let him do the sprints but Biedermann swam 1:42.00 ten months after pr'ing at 1:46. The difference was the swimsuit. IM and freestyles, both open and relay, involve all those strokes, by the way. His best 100m free split that I have seen was 47.15, which would be fifth on your list, and that was of course in the midst of many competitions. If he had concentrated on 50 and 100 free, he would no doubt own the world records today.

You're quite mistaken. You were looking at 47.51 not 47.15. World's apart.

These are Phelps freestyle records:

You serious about the 50? No chance even in 100.

His best freestyle is obviously the 200.

100 m freestyle 47.51 (r) Beijing August 11, 2008

200 m freestyle 1:42.96 Beijing August 12, 2008 AM, NR

400 m freestyle 3:47.79 Indianapolis April 1, 2005

?!?!?!?! wrote:

You're quite mistaken. You were looking at 47.51 not 47.15. World's apart.

These are Phelps freestyle records:

You serious about the 50? No chance even in 100.

His best freestyle is obviously the 200.

100 m freestyle 47.51 (r) Beijing August 11, 2008

200 m freestyle 1:42.96 Beijing August 12, 2008 AM, NR

400 m freestyle 3:47.79 Indianapolis April 1, 2005

Agree .. no way close to touching a WR or even a gold medal in the 50m. Or the 100m.

That is not me: it was Phelps's coach who was quoted with the above claim. It was indeed the age of the magical suit and his was faster than Phelps's own suit.

And the relay is 47.15 in London. He swam 47.51 in Beijing.

Men's 4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay Event History · Glossary · SHARE · Embed · CSV · Export · PRE · LINK · ?

Games Age City Sport Team NOC Phase Unit Rank T RT 5dT ET ER

2004 Summer 19 Athina Swimming United States USA Final 3 48.74 0.44 23.43 1:38.79 6

2008 Summer 23 Beijing Swimming United States USA Final 1 47.51 0.75 23.31 47.51 2

2012 Summer 27 London Swimming United States USA Final 2 47.15 0.19 22.63 1:35.04 1