Braden Keith, SwimSwam editor-in-chief, requested this info. We thought it would be a mix of NCAA Championship reports, but we were wrong, very wrong (however, 2015 Men’s NCAA DI Swimming and Diving Championships could change that). See below.
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2013 FINA World Championships Day 8 Finals Real-Time Recaps – 1,076 comments
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2013 FINA World Championships Day 5 Finals REAL-TIME RECAPS – 787 comments
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2013 FINA World Championships Day 7 Finals Real-Time Recaps – 643 comments
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2013 FINA World Championships Day 1 Real-Time Recaps – 568 comments
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2013 World Championships Day 3 FINALS Real-Time Recaps – 513 comments
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2013 FINA World Championships Day 2: Real-Time Recaps – 459 comments
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2013 FINA World Championships, Day 4 FINALS REAL-TIME RECAPS – 449 comments
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SwimSpray to Offer a Free Sample to Anyone Willing to Send A Testimonial after Trying the Product – 410 comments
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American Vollmer; van der Burgh Break World Records on Day 2 (RECAP) – 408 comments
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Clary Upsets Lochte; Phelps Completes History on Day 6 Finals – 399 comments
You guys have waaay more international visitors than you think!
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Is it too late to get some of that swim spray?
In my opinion, a lot less events seem like “face offs” this year as opposed to previous WC/Olympics. We’ve used to matchups like Lochte vs Phelps, Park vs Sun.
People were advertising the 2012 Olympics as the match up between new faces and those on the brink/coming out of retirement. I disagree- THIS is going to be the Olympics for that. Many of the old faces right are are residual from 2008 or even before. The young faces are gracing the NCAA championships or are European teenagers. The stars from 2008/2012, have more or less fallen down to earth (Phelps, Lochte, Sun..etc) creating way for the newest generation
We will still have many battles to watch>
50 free:Sjostrom vs Halsall vs Campbell sister vs Kromowidjojo and Cielo vs Manadou vs Fratus vs some newcomer
200 free:Ledecky vs Missy vs Sjostrom
The 4×100 free relays both men and women will be unforgetable.
the 100 Fly of Le Clos vs Phelps.. Many Many races to be seen..
I think the NCAA finals from this evening will crack the top 10 and the Olympics in rio will completely re write the top 10
And reading through the Olympics posts, quite a number of people were pretty confident Phelps will unretire 2 years before Rio and focus on the the 100 free, 100 fly and 2im. And guess they were right!
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Shows how swimswam has contributed to building up our sport. 10-15 years ago this was unfathomable. The sport of swimming has come a long way.
I anticipate Many of those are going to go down this summer.
No doubt about it.
Many promises changed they level to powerhouse in their events(Ledecky, Campbell…)
Some new ones in meteoric rise(Sedov,Proud…)
And others already “the man to beat” like Peaty.
Haha surreal I was part of the 1076 comments and amazing that most who commented are still active on SwimSwam