Phelps didn’t qualify for the 400m finals (18th). Guess he should have kept the 400IM on the schedule.
he got rocked at the end of the race too…was in 3rd on the last turn and dropped to 7th in his heat from there. I wonder what this means about him swimming the 100 free also instead of the 400im or the 200fly…but hopefully he’ll put it together and have a good rest of his meet, the 400 free relay tonight will probably tell a lot
same thing nearly happened to France’s olympic gold over the 400m…Laure Manaudou only 8th best time of the 400m barely qualifying…
phelps just led off the 400 free relay with a 49.17 which is a decent time…the mens relay also went on to swim .6 away from the world record set by the south african’s in athens, which is impressive considering that it was phelps and a few older guys (walker, dusing and lezak) without crocker who’s going to have a heated battle in the 50 fly with schoeman. Overall the united states looks a little weak to me, but maybe it was just this day’s events, vanderkaay did have a nice 400 dropping 2 seconds off of his PR also.
and Manaudou world champ in 4.06.44
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