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[EVENT] Olympics - Women's 10KM OW Swim 09/08/12

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  • 09-08-2012 1:15pm
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    Izoard
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    Seriously impressed with the pace these girls are able to maintain for 10km.

    One of my young TV buddies is alarmed that I could "waste 2 hours of my life" watching OW swimming - kinda hooked on it, though....


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    Kurt Godel
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    Izoard wrote: »
    Seriously impressed with the pace these girls are able to maintain for 10km.

    One of my young TV buddies is alarmed that I could "waste 2 hours of my life" watching OW swimming - kinda hooked on it, though....

    Regarding pace, from the BBC:
    If you want to test yourself against these Olympians next time you're down your local pool, they're swimming each 100m in around 70 seconds. Try doing four lengths in that time, then imagine doing it a further 100 times.

    Into the second half of the race at this stage, fascinated by it, http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html feed number 2.


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    Kurt Godel
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    Some amazing slo-mo shots of the swimmers grabbing fluids during their swim. I'll never again have sympathy for marathon runners whinging about having to drink from cups!


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    RacoonQueen
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    Has this always been an olympic event? Only noticed it myself this time round when checking the schedules.


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    Kurt Godel
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    What a finish! After 10k in the Serpentine, less than half a body length separated first and second. Well done the Hungarian girl for winning from the front.

    Winning time 1:57:38 :eek:


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    Izoard
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    Some amazing slo-mo shots of the swimmers grabbing fluids during their swim. I'll never again have sympathy for marathon runners whinging about having to drink from cups!

    If ever there was a requirement for a squeezy bottle...crazy going with the cups...

    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Has this always been an olympic event? Only noticed it myself this time round when checking the schedules.

    Was introduced in 2008, AFAIK...


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    Izoard
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    What a finish! After 10k in the Serpentine, less than half a body length separated first and second. Well done the Hungarian girl for winning from the front.

    Winning time 1:57:38 :eek:

    Yeah, fair play to her - felt sorry for KAP...she was a bit of a poster girl for the GB swimmers - 4th must be heartbreaking...


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    mloc123
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    Some amazing slo-mo shots of the swimmers grabbing fluids during their swim. I'll never again have sympathy for marathon runners whinging about having to drink from cups!

    Grab, roll into single handed backstroke.. drink and continue without even slowing :eek:


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    griffin100
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    Awesome event. Thought the winner went off too early but she held on really well.

    Not an event for those persons who can't drink from cups so that rules out some triathletes :)


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    Zuppy
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    And in open water swimming terms ten km is an ok distance. A bit shortish. :-)


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    kingQuez
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    I remember the first time I saw the pace from a 10k, it really reset any ideas I had that I'd finally started to get the hang of swimming, I still cant hit their pace for a 100m sprint :)


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