(PIERSOL & LOCHTE - center;left - where they clocked the WR last year)Aaron PEIRSOL / Ryan LOCHTE – WR/ OR
The 200M BACKSTROKE FINALS will be an event dominated by Aaron PEIRSOL and Ryan LOCHTE. They swam separately at the semifinals, both steadily and dominantly at the top. PEIRSOL with his “tight streamline arms, doesn’t need to do more, classic swimming style”
1.PEIRSOL (USA)
2.STOECKEL (AUS)
3.FLOREA (ROU)
1.LOCHTE (USA)
2.ROGAN (AUT)
3.IRIE (JAP)
I’m saying STOECKEL(AUS) will emerge as the Bronze medalist, but it’s all too early to tell. The cute Arkady VYATCHANIN (RUS) was there as well, he finished 4th in the first group, one of the early chasers of PEIRSOL but lost to FLOREA in the chasing game. He is officially out of the finals* but he’s still cocks as the 5th fastest in the world. ROGAN (AUT) is a graduate of Stanford University, another example of the American University Swimming Team thingy.
*Arkady was part of a swim-off for 8th position later in the night, where everybody had left the water cube. He clocked the same timing with other swimmers and won the swim-off. We will be seeing him tomorrow for the finals afterall. I wonder what is he thinking during the swim-offs...it must be a tough mental battle back there.
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