2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
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Alex Walsh placed 2nd in her first individual event of the week, the 200 IM, behind her Virginia teammate, Kate Douglass. Walsh was pleased with her race and how she executed it, going with a more “fly and die” method of trying to hold on with Douglass for as long as she could.
I’m always amazed at the lack of situational awareness. She’s driving to the venue and it dawns on her that this is short course meters. You would think there would have been strategy adaptation, including when you’ll reach the wall and what that means in terms of an additional stroke.
I have to say that’s the one area in which swimming seems comparatively primitive…the timing to the wall and maximizing arrival. Every time I’m watching a butterfly race the only thing I’m focusing on is whether or not the leader(s) will hit the wall perfectly at the end of a full stroke. This is obvious a long way from the wall. Several strokes. Yet it’s incredible that even the… Read more »
I get not being adapted to SCM for American swimmers, though. (Because the easiest way to find a place to train would be what, moving bulkheads? And clearly this meet isn’t a huge priority for most.)
What I never got was a guy like Michael Phelps whomping all his LCM fly turns for like 6 straight years.
Have u ever swum a LCM 2Fl at full effort? It’s totally different than Edwin Moses running a 400 Hurdles. Perspective makes it much much more difficult to judge
You’re misunderstanding what she said. She’s not saying that she “just realized it was short course meters.” She’s saying that it felt exactly like short course yards, that she questioned if she was even swimming short course meters due to how similar it felt. If you paid attention to the interview you could’ve seen her follow up with that like 2 seconds later.
Pretty wild the best two 2 IMers in the world are training partners on the same college team
How intense must those practices be?!?
Yes and right now two of them have second best time of 200 Im in short course and long course and it’s looking good for Paris
Walsh over Douglas the usual seen it many times
oh really? How did that work out?
If you’re referring to the subject of the interview, Douglass wasn’t available to speak as she had the free relay, medal ceremony, drug testing, then had to go back to the hotel to make it in time for dinner.
i feel like walsh is always prioritized over douglass. idk if she’s seen as more marketable but she’s always represented more.
I don’t have a comment on which is more marketable, but I don’t think it has to be that deep. Walsh has an Olympic silver medal and an individual LCM World Championship. Douglass has an Olympic bronze medal and an individual LCM World Championship bronze medal.
Walsh’s long course resume is just better. USA Swimming has never really elevated NCAA accomplishments (which I think is a mistake – it’s an easy way to connect with an audience).