I certainly hope they show us the medal ceremony....

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I dunno, if the Brits had gone single file and dropped Larissa into third, she would have had to overcome two body lengths. Brits would haven gotten 1st and 3rd. Worth it?

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

Yeah, I'd really like to know what the pre-race stradegy was for them.

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

Am I the only one who noticed the girl from RSA??????????????????

Fred.

Young Chloe Sutton learned a lot today I bet. Tough race for her.

Oh I agree - great race by her and from the commentary it seems she's the acknowledged favorite. Maybe as Tom said the Brits were just shooting for 2,3 and didn't want to play games with the rest of the field and prejudice their chances at silver and bronze

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

It is a really brutal sport that way and you can be sure then men will not be a "polite" tomorrow as the women were today.Usually the finish is a full contact affair with the leaders changing direction all over the place to block the others a bit.There are all kinds of wierd rules as well with some really surprising DQ's from time to time.

Du toit there, the amputee, re-united with here leg... She has quite a commanding prescence.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Some good re-caps going on now.

I do so want to see the Medals presented...

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Was that 1:12 per for 100, 100s? Did I calculate that right?

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I agree,as I mentioned,the men would not have been so "polite" and let the Russian through.


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The heartbreak is for the Brazilians.... Fifth and seventh....

I don't think they were ever in it. When they swung out on their own they got dropped immediately. They rejoined the pack but a row or two down. Lucky that they managed to hold that to the finish.

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

I was going to attempt that calculation too... but I'll leave that to you jtaylor1024

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

British silver medal winner barely kicked as she sprinted. I bet she was wiped out. Great sprint from Russian Larisa. David K

Any particular reason why they need to touch the yellow sign @ the end?

Fred.

Still some swimmers coming in for a valiant finish....

They each make history... The first ever Olympic 10K Marathon Swim.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

They have a wrist strap that records their time when they hit it.

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Believe she's the only athlete to qualify for the olympics and paralympics in the same sport - inspirational

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

1:11.67 per 100m according to my back of the envelope calcs.

;-)

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

It is apparently not sufficient to just swim under it to record the finish. You have to touch the pad.

1:11.4 per 100m

or 1:02.4 per 100 yds

Of course, my best all out 100 yards in a pool w/ flip turns is 1:15.

I suck.

;-p

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

I don't mind if Brasil lost to Argentina today on soccer ... but seeing these two brazilian ladies almost getting the first medal for a woman in swiming ( in Brasil ) was really sad ...

I wish the other 240 athletes that we sent could show the same courage...

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Luiz Eng

I'm guessing they probably closed with 1:03s to 1:05s.

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Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

I guess that's just how fast you can get when you swim 120,000 meter weeks like Larisa.

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