Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Indy Grand Prix starts tomorrow (March 3 to 5)

Ryan will be competing in the Indianapolis Grand Prix, which starts on Thursday, March 3. The meet is long course meters.

From an article on usaswimming.org by Mike Gustafson: http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=3196&mid=9874

2. Lochte vs. Phelps. OK, you're sick of hearing about this non-rivalry rivalry. They're good buds – Phelps and Lochte are like peas 'n' carrots – but they love racing each other (or so they say when cameras are rolling). Which means we swim fans love watching. Anytime these two go at it, they make headlines for the sport of swimming. Each talks about raising the bar to get swimming in the mainstream media. Well, this is how you do it. Match-ups, races, epic finishes and having fun. Watch for a lot of smiles from these two, and hopefully, some close finishes.

Prelims start at 9 a.m. CST and finals begin at 6 p.m. CST. Prelims can be watched on usaswimming.org. Finals can be watched live on universalsports.com.

Ryan is entered in 8 events: http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/c6f5e4e5-632f-4c72-8576-510dd8e3ebe6/preliminary_psych_sheet.pdf

Thursday, March 3

Event 2 - 200m free (Ryan is seeded 7th - also Michael Phelps, Ous Mellouli, Peter Vanderkaay)
Event 6 - 100m fly (Ryan is seeded 10th - also Michael Phelps, Tyler McGill)

Friday, March 4

Event 14 - 50m free (Ryan is seeded 56th - also Josh Schneider, Jason Lezak)
Event 16 - 100m back (Ryan is seeded 5th - also Matt Grevers, Nick Thoman, David Plummer)
Event 18 - 400m free (Ryan is seeded 17th - also Ous Mellouli, Peter Vanderkaay)

Saturday, March 5

Event 25 - 200m IM (Ryan is seeded 4th - also Markus Rogan, Michael Phelps, Eric Shanteau, Ous Mellouli)
Event 27 - 200m back (Ryan is seeded 11th - also Tyler Clary, Nick Thoman)
Event 29 - 100m free (Ryan is seeded 14th - also Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak, Josh Schneider, Matt Grevers)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i don't think ryan and michael are close friends like the media makes them out to be. ryan is closer with other swimmers on the usa team. but i definitely agree there is a strong rivalry between the two.