We’re back with your weekly dose of swimming’s TopTenTweets, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.
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The international tradition continues in Athens 🏆
After tallying a national-best seven swimmers for Tokyo 2020, the Dawgs showed out at the @USASwimming Trials with four making @TeamUSA for Worlds!#DGD | #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/Ft33cBksOe
— Georgia Swim & Dive (@UGASwimDive) May 3, 2022
Seriously….. who let the dawgs out?
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こんな感じの撮影は初めての体験でとても緊張しました…😄ぜひご覧ください✨https://t.co/Zi5wnt3nZn
— 大橋 悠依 / 𝗬𝘂𝗶 𝗢𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶 (@Yui__Ohashi) May 1, 2022
V O G U E.
https://twitter.com/Mike2Swim/status/1519842787499380737?s=20&t=Xp3J1YUWDZM-oCk_1x3aYA
In case you somehow missed it: Hunter Armstrong set a world record this week.
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Was watching race video from Trials and noticed @heldilox throwing the Forks Up and Go Pack at the same time.
Team work makes the dream work! 🇺🇸 @ASUSwimDive 🤝 @packswimdive pic.twitter.com/x491E6Uzoj
— Herbie Behm (@SirHerb_the3rd) May 2, 2022
The duality of man.
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𝕊𝕨𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝔽𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒 ℙ𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕪𝕟 𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕦𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕙𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥-𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 𝔾ℙ𝔸 𝕒𝕥 ℕℂ𝔸𝔸 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡𝕤
From The Harvard Gazette! ⬇️https://t.co/NQYivvfu8k#OneCrimson
📸 by Jon Chase/Harvard pic.twitter.com/cMOzxtac2b
— Harvard Swim & Dive (@HarvardSwimDive) May 2, 2022
And now she’s going to be a doctor!
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They swam faster. https://t.co/MCK0m3kte8
— John Wakefield (@Pelotrain) May 3, 2022
I guess that’s the simple answer.
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Meet the 1⃣5⃣ Olympians nominated for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame, Class of 2022. 🇺🇸
Vote Now: https://t.co/woKGbpz8S3#TeamUSAHOF pic.twitter.com/Hy5F3spkQj
— Team USA (@TeamUSA) May 2, 2022
Who’s got your vote?
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No one ever talks about the panic that comes after the knock on your door from your roommate to wake you up for morning practice because your alarm didn't go off/you fell back asleep.
— Zach Harting, M.S., OLY (@hartingz) May 3, 2022
Literally, nothing prepares you for a moment like this.
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The first of our 10km simulations of the season took place this morning. They make holding 66’s for 2 x [1200-1000-800] look easy! The faster parts came after this!! @tobiasrobinson_ @hector_pardoe pic.twitter.com/KE063ku3gI
— Andi Manley (@andimanley) April 29, 2022
Holding 66’s for 6k… just wow.
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Michael Phelps vs Caeleb Dressel 🇺🇸 in the Men's 100m Butterfly 12 years apart 🔥 #swimming pic.twitter.com/B1iCND4pgE
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 3, 2022
Okay, who would win this race today: Dressel doing 100 fly v Phelps doing 100 free?
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They only overlap in 100m. 50 free or fly — obviously Dressel. 200 free or fly — obviously Phelps. 100 free or fly — gotta go with Dressel.
Phelps and lochte could both come back if they did USRPT. That’s what Nicholas Santos does
USRPT as we’ve seen hasn’t boded so well for the longer events Phelps does. He’d probably have to focus on the 100 free and fly, maybe 200 free and fly or IM
Phelps is the 🐐 no arguing that….. the things he’s done in and for the sport of swimming is 🙌🙌 but even in his prime lets say the 100fly(being the only event they have in common) or even the 100free Dressel wins Everytime
And with a present day Phelps dressel will have him beat in any event chosen…… Phelps said it….. you miss a day you need 2days to catch up back
Unless he’s been training everyday planning a come back cause like can he come back now🥺🙏
Phelps should come out of retirement and show these kids up
Mike would need atleast 6 months of legit training to have a shot at 49 mid in a 100 free. He seems like he’s still in good shape tho
6? nah I’d argue give him a month of speed training and 49 mid is do able for him doing freestyle (thats the question). like you said hes in shape, seen on his IG looks like he has more muscle than before, and a talent that high he doesn’t lose the feel of the water. technique might be dodgy, for his standard, but one month is my time frame for him to whip that back.
I’ve helped out at camps with former olympians and we have had a race at the end, for fun but still competitive, some of those olympians haven’t trained in months, sometimes years. still “in the water” but not training. can still absolutely fly. with MP,… Read more »
He has literally said he lost a ton of feel for the water when he came back in 2014
to his standard of feel yes he did. but to get a 49.5 100 free. nah. we mere mortals find it hard to believe but I’ve seen what those guys can do, even “out of shape” and not even training. I’ve seen first hand a retired athlete still compete better than current athletes after 2 years of not training at all.
Agree. In fact, this happens commonly among elite swimmers but we don’t want to/can’t believe it when it happens. We usually explain it away…except that it keeps happening and there’s probably a good physiologic reason for it that we haven’t embraced yet.
He’s also 6 years removed from the last time he swam competitively and in his mid 30s. I think you’re underestimating what it takes. Especially for him who, in textile peaked at 48 low.
MP is a 200, 400 swimmer who was able to stretch down to the 100. CD best distances are 50 and 100.and his 200 are not world class
He once broke the 100 fly WR splitting 25.1, 26.3 lol
Agree 100%. Phelps would still beat Dressel in 100 back, not sure the outcome in 100 breast. Of course at his peak.
I dont see phelps doing a 49.4 in the free right now without soe serious training. Dressel would probably win that showdown
Eh he’s in fairly decent shape rn. I bet if he does some USRPT or something he could get there in like 3 months. Brent Hayden proved it was possible a couple years ago.
Hayden got to 47.9. Phelps could get to 49.4 in 1 month I’m guessing. I see him on social media and it looks like he’s in great shape.
I’m guessing you are joking but otherwise you are making a 49 sound way too easy lmao
MP “finds your lack of faith disturbing.”
May the fourth. gotta get my starwars puns and quotes in.
Well it took Hayden a couple years to get back to 47, only a few months to get 49.
At this very moment Phelps is not breaking 50.
Give him a few months then maybe
C’mon mike, prove me wrong. Duel in the pool?
Well, it said today. Dressel ain’t got a sub50 in him any old day, I don’t think.
Idk if Phelps on Day 0 is more likely to be 50.mid than he is to be 49.mid after a month. Feels oddly equally likely.
I like the “I dont think” made me giggle cause I feel the same way.
Phelps, if he put suit on right now, would go 50.7 or higher
truth