Holy smokes if you are bored.......Ledecky just set the water on fire in the 1500. Good grief.http://www.usaswimming.org/...ault.aspx?TabId=2396[/quote[/url]]

So, what was her time??? No results are available yet on the web site.

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Holy smokes if you are bored.......Ledecky just set the water on fire in the 1500. Good grief.

http://www.usaswimming.org/...ault.aspx?TabId=2396

I'm sorry I'm a bad boy I was engrossed in the flyover start progression of the race right after and forgot! Just wanted to get the link up real quick so people could watch online if they wanted.

She was soft pedaling that race her kick was almost off compared to when she is in throw down mode in a final. I think her gap was ~ 50m on 2nd it was crazy. They zoomed in on her at the wall and literally she was hardly even gassed. I know what she looks like at the wall when she has put it all on the table having watched her enough to know there was way more in her throttle. Can hardly wait for Worlds.

Super interested to see how rusty Phelps is and to see what he is racing didn't look at sheets.

Why do you waste our time??? She only went 15:42 and was 14 sec off of her own WR. I mean, 90% of ST can swim faster than that (in an OWS with a strong current and in a wetsuit:)

there's a link to live webcasts on SwimSwam.com, if anyone is interested. I caught Ledecky's swim starting at about the 400, she did look a little off at the start of the race, but she came back really well. I "think" she neg split the 1500, but I haven't seen the splits to confirm or not.

Shame that McBroom scratched yesterday, I would have liked to see what he could've done in the 800. I'd imagine that he cares more about the 1500 though.

And Phelps has an interesting lineup, he's entered in the 400 free. I hope he swims it and doesn't scratch.

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There was another really impressive swim in Ledecky's race, Madelyne Donohoe is only 13 (16:44 for 3rd)...

I looked up the NAG records, which I had never really done before, Becca Mann has the 13-14 record at 16:11.98. (that;s LCM....)

wow.....

And not really to do with Mesa, but because Phelps is there it kinda relates.

Phelps confirmed that he would not be seeking a spot on the Worlds team for Kazan, basically saying that he didn't want to displace anyone who had earned their spot. So the FINA Exec Director comes out today and says that it wouldn't be a problem to assign an extra spot for Phelps, just because he's Phelps. Forget about the qualification process, it's cool.

WTF FINA? They already have a credibility problem, now this???

Heats are on now -

http://www.usaswimming.org/...ault.aspx?TabId=2396

Ledecky top qualifier for the 200 free, Hosszu is right behind her.

I'm watching the 100 breast.....that stroke is still a black art to me. The propulsion these kids can get from that whip kick is wowsers.

And she swam 8.13 in the 800.

Adam Peaty just broke the WR for 100 breast by half a second. sub-58 LCM....

I figured that anyone who cared would probably know that peaty was a Brit. Mesa isn't a prime meet for world records, the top guys who are there typically aren't rested. Phelps looked pretty tired himself, that showed in the 2im and the 4free. Sprints were decent if not earth shattering.

I did say it was a wr by a half second though. That's the stat that is most impressive. And peaty had room for improvement on the start...

Phelps tied Ledecky - 4:02.67....

And Ledecky with a 4:01 in the final. Phelps got chicked this weekend in an event where he used to hold the American record.

She really is a once in a generation talent. Thing is, this would have been the golden age of women's distance swimming without her- Becky Adlington, Allison Schmidt, Federica Pellegrini, the late Camille Muffat, Lauren Boyle, Miriela Belmonte....

And then Ledecky blows by that quality group and take it to another dimension.