It was another night of swimming at the trials.
I really love that I have been hearing so many old veterans are trying to make a comeback here and qualify for the London games. Amanda Beard, Dara Torres, and my oldest personal favorite, I've heard Janet Evans is going to try to make a come back. All those names have happy memories from my youth and child hood associated with them, but sometimes its fun to learn new names, and see the future of awesomeness in swimming.
Tonight started with the Women's 50 m Butterfly. Vollmer was kicking trash again tonight.,Natalie Coughlin the veteran Olympian didn't qualify after the commentators spent so much time building up my hope for her. I kinda hate when they do that and then the athlete doesn't qualify. It makes me feel a little sad. Just a little, because Vollmer was incredible and totally owned it again. She nearly had an american record, and a world record, she was just off it. Coughlin wasn't even near the front of the field after the commentators talked her up big time. I have never heard of Vollmer till yesterday, but she won tonight by what looked like a half a body length on her next closest competitor, and almost a full on everyone else. This Woman is going to rock London for sure, she is shutting down all her competition.
Its early qualifying rounds still for the 200 fly for the men. But Lochte beat Phelps again, just barley, it was a qualifier after all. its kind of fun, everyone was hitting turns at the same time in the second heat, it was playful almost. sad though, Vanderkaay didn't qualify. For some reason though, other than those moments, and probably because it was just a qualifier, the men's 200 didn't really capture my attention, and I got bored and started writing this blog. Its ok, I don't have to be constantly entertained.
I dont like the way NBC is doing the trials and commentating as much this year, I feel kind of like I am mainly just watching the generic feed and occasionally hearing something interesting. I think there personal interest stories are trying and failing, because they are short and shallow, I don't feel like I have learned anything worth learning about the athletes they are spotlighting, yet there are some that have been really worth spotlighting if you listen carefully to the commentating, Like the diver that won the men's 3 m- he has 60% hearing loss. Usually they would do some big trump up on how he overcame odds to be great. Turns out in diving, it may be an advantage sometimes to not hear distractions. Oh well! do I care? I want to hear more about this cool guy and what makes him tick. I want to hear about more than just "hey Lochte and Phelps go head to head again, who will win this time? oh its Lochte again, but its early rounds, so it doesn't mean any thing ." Which is what they seem to keep saying every time.
And they keep saying "fastest time in the world this year" for every heat. It just makes me think, man this must be a really slow year, because they keep saying that. I am so glad though, that they finally have worked in an Olympic flash back in these trials. It makes it more exciting. Since it was about Breden Hansen , its a good thing he qualified. Otherwise that would have been a big backfire.
Just like in the 2008 track trials, they did the big spot on Delilah, the women's decathlete who they speculated was the inspiration for the song "Hey Delilah" then she failed to qualify and I was sad, but at least she got to go to some music award show thing with the lead singer of the Plain White T's, not quite the Olympics, but its a nice consolation prize. and now to interrupt my distraction.....
Woman's 400 M WOW!!! exciting. Alison Schmit!!! Way under world record pace and over a body length ahead most the way through. Even though she didn't get the world or american record, she beat everyone by a body length and that was so sweet, because she had it, and held it the whole way!!! That was the most exciting moment of the night if I am honest. It was worth watching the boring parts!!!
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