Summer Tokyo 2021 - Swimming

[gbear]

2 more gold than Melbourne our best ever at the swimming still 1 more to get would be amazing!


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If Australia get a medal in the men’s it will be a miracle tbh

 

[Donakebab]

Anyone with a some insight on the development of our swimmers able to explain the contrasting results between the women and the men this Olympics?

The women have outperformed the men for a while now from memory.

 

[Quinz]

List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

If this list is accurate

Emma McKeon becomes the
- 11th person
- 4th swimmer
- First and ONLY female swimmer

With 7 or more medals at a single Olympics

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

I’m trying to crack the Maths here - Hodges isn’t going to be quite quick enough here is she?

Yeah she is woooooo

 

[eddiesmith]

Which usually where the US have it over everyone because of all those college meets their swimmers do.

I know 5 or 10 years ago Swimming Oz decided to have relay camps to improve our changeovers.

Yep and it’s a huge change from even these Olympics where we seemed to lose ground on most changeovers in the earlier relays.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I will say the yanks have had great sportsmanship this olympics as a general rule. Only one bad incident compared to the usual every event.

With big head Lilly King and her ego I struggle to feel for the Yanks

 

[catstorm]

Added bonus Figjam Lily King goes home with no Golds.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

The women have outperformed the men for a while now from memory.

Goes in circles in the Thorpe era we’d struggle to win 1 in the women. Next era might be the men there’s plenty of young swimmers coming through

 

[Clubs are trumps]

Chelsea Hodges expression at the end was like a kid at Xmas. Really happy for her to get a gold medal.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Added bonus Figjam Lily King goes home with no Golds.

This! Big Head deserves to lose for putting GOAT on her suit!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

If this list is accurate

Emma McKeon becomes the
- 11th person
- 4th swimmer
- First and ONLY female swimmer

With 7 or more medals at a single Olympics

Mark Spitz 1972 7 golds, Matt Biondi 1988 5 golds out of 7 and Phelps 2004 8 medals 6 gold, 2008 8 and 8

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Chelsea Hodges expression at the end was like a kid at Xmas. Really happy for her to get a gold medal.

Was the leg that won it. You’d expect the other 3 to swim well but Chelsea swimming THAT well was what won it

 

[eddiesmith]

Anyone with a some insight on the development of our swimmers able to explain the contrasting results between the women and the men this Olympics?

I don’t think we’ve ever been good at both at once. When our men were at their peak, the women were average.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Go the Brits or anyone that can beat the Yanks

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Dressel swimming the fly

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yep and it’s a huge change from even these Olympics where we seemed to lose ground on most changeovers in the earlier relays.

Thorpey just talked about it and said something like, who would have thought we were better at changeovers than the yanks and mentioned their college system. He said our total change over times was 0.49 but I missed the yanks total, so will have to go and calculate it.

 

[Clubs are trumps]

Can we medal in this or nah?

 

[catstorm]

Goes in circles in the Thorpe era we’d struggle to win 1 in the women. Next era might be the men there’s plenty of young swimmers coming through

Last Olympics the men won 2 individual gold medals and the women won none.

 

[eddiesmith]

Thorpey just talked about it and said something like, who would have thought we were better at changeovers than the yanks and mentioned their college system. He said our total change over times was 0.49 but I missed the yanks total, so will have to go and calculate it.

Think he said a full second difference? But it’s a remarkable change

 

[Bugz]

Can we medal in this or nah?

Doubt it.

 

[Drummond]

Can we medal in this or nah?

Bronze possible, but I wouldn’t bet on that.

But with the way this week has gone, who knows lol!

 

[Bungeye]

The Aussie men need to step up for once!!

 

[eddiesmith]

China wearing yellow caps has been bloody annoying!!!

 

[Heisenberg_]

That dumb campaigner Bazil mixed up Mitch Larkin with the Chinese swimmer

 

[BACCS]

Wait, did Apple get out before the race finished?