Like, Monty remembers when breastrokers couldn't put their eyebrow line below the water. //


Or when backstrokers had to touch the wall with their hands, no dolphin kick off the wall in breast, different leans into the wall, and a few other small ones. But the biggie is still the underwater dolphin. That blows the suits, new pools, new lane lines, new blocks, and salt water out of the water. For awhile it went unchecked too, and you had races up to a 100 swam almost exclusively under water. Now it is just 15 meters from each wall, but that is still a huge difference from the old turn and burn technique.


And funny thing is that it was not a new rule, new gadget, or new suit that had to be invented. It was always there, just had to have someone think of it. Not sure who was the first, but it was Berkoff who made it famous i believe.


As to Sun Yang, of course he is a very talented guy. Just unfortunate that we do not really know how much so now. Was he a guy that would have still won the gold and set world records, or a guy that just barley makes the finals in meets. I guess he will be under a real microscope now, even more than he was. He is young, so we will see if he makes any improvements in his times, or he falls flat and races with the mere mortals now. He is certainly built to be a perfect distance swimmer, about as hydrodynamic as a body can get, and drugs did not do that..

so what do you really think of M. phelps... or the Brownlees perhaps.

Jeez, now you make me wonder about Katie Ledecky!
<Pan Pacific Championships> "On the meet's final day, Ledecky set her fifth world record of the year, lowering her record in the 1500-meter freestyle by nearly six seconds with at time of 15:28.36. Ledecky swam the second half of the race faster than the first, completing the final 800 meters in 8:14.11--faster than any other woman has completed a regular 800-meter race in a textile suit. Ledecky lapped three competitors in the final and finished 27.33 seconds ahead of silver medalist Boyle."

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Or Chrissie Wellington? It's got to be said, she was that dominant... and left at the peak of her powers (just like LA did after 7... admittedly he had a comeback later though).

PEDs don't get your stroke looking like Sun Yang's though. You have got to give him that. Efficiency at its finest.

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Bill Koch was the first to really skate ski on classic skis in competition. For years people had been taking a few skate strides changing tracks or on turns but no one really thought that you could just ditch the kick wax and do the entire race using skating stride AND be faster. From what I recall, Bill was experimenting crust skiing on frozen lakes in the spring in Vemont. At that time of year, during the day the snow turns to slush but overnight you can basically skate endless miles on the frozen slush on top of frozen lakes and farmer fields....you get a good tail wind and it's literally like kite boarding (we still go "crust cruising" around here in the spring....really is awesome). In any case, I remember reading an article about how Bill "discovered" that this technique could be faster...it was around 1985...like dolphin kick it was always there (certainly after fiber glass skis were invented) and has been used by downhill skiers forever to get between lift line ups and out of the start gate in any downhill ski race (downhill, Super G, GS, Slalom)....Bill just decided to try it out in a competition because there was no rule stopping it.

Reports are coming out that he's used the medication since 2008, and unless there's a translation error, it's not the right medication for his self-described mild heart issue.

I remember that rule change ... I was 10. At 14 we got the backstroke flipturn.

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THIS^^^ I've never seen anyone with such a super long stroke:)

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I think Monty is old enough to remember when you had to do open turns when swimming that newfangled Australian Crawl..

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Maybe this drug was to counter act heart damage from other PED.

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Interesting point, logically correct!

And it wasnt PEDs that made Bond's swing so sweet either. They're both POS.