Random Musings

I’d never thought I’d ever say this, but Ryan Lochte is the new Michael Phelps. Without doubt the best male swimmer in the world right now. London 2012 may be a different story, because I don’t believe that Phelps will take this lying down…but for now, we can safely say that Lochte sits on top [...]

I was in Australia recently and news of Ian Thorpe’s decision to return to competitive swimming was, as you would imagine, huge. While I was thrilled that we will actually get to see Ian Thorpe swim competitively in the Olympics once again, there was a big part of me that remained highly skeptical about Thorpe’s [...]

I didn’t follow the Asian Games, though I heard that there was quite a bit of exciting stuff going on in the pool, both in the men’s and women’s events. I heard that Tao Li won the gold in the women’s 50m Fly, but I’ve not watched the race until on YouTube today. Hey what [...]

I guess it took no more than 3 days of World Championship action from Rome to conclude that world swimming is now turning into a fiasco…somewhat in the vein of Formula 1 (politics), cycling (doping) and baseball (steroids) in recent years. While it is always fascinating for the general public to hear about 4 or [...]

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t skeptical about some of the WR swims I’ve seen thus far at the World Champs in Rome.

We’ve only just begun the first day of the FINA World Champs in Rome and already we’ve had a number of WRs broken. Look out for many more incredible times to be set in the next few days. It’s gonna be absolutely crazy I tell ya.

Ok, this is stunning. I just found out that the 200m Backstroke world record was smashed (and I mean smashed) about one week ago. And it was done by a 19 year old Japanese swimmer named Ryosuke Irie whom I’ve never heard before, clocking 1:52.86. And he took off almost one whole second off Ryan [...]

I heard on the radio this evening that the impossible has happened – man has broken the 21 second mark over 50 metres. It’s not Eamon Sullivan who broke it. And though it was a Frenchman, it wasn’t Alain Bernard. It was Frederick Bousquet who became the only man in history to have gone over [...]