According to the Charlotte Ultraswim psyche sheet (found at http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results09/Psych.pdf) the events Ryan has entered on Friday, May 15 are:
200m free (Event 4)
400m IM (Event 10)
Ryan is seeded 3rd in the 200m free behind Michael Phelps and Peter Vanderkaay. Ryan is seeded first in the 400IM ahead of Thiago Pereira, Bradley Ally and Tyler Clary. Both of these races should be very competitive and entertaining.
According to this document http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results09/Session.htm, the prelims for Event 4 will begin at 9:33 a.m. EDT. There are 118 swimmers entered in this race. My guess is Ryan's heat will take place about 10 a.m. or so. Finals for Event 4 will take place at 6:12 p.m. EDT.
There are 68 swimmers entered in the prelims for Event 10, which are set to start at approximately 11:33 a.m. EDT. My guess is Ryan's heat will happen around noon. Finals for Event 10 are scheduled to start at 7:21 p.m. EDT.
The good news is we can watch the races live. For those lucky enough to have the Universal Sports channel, the finals will be aired on tv. For the rest of us, we can watch the races online at swimnetwork.com.
According to this article http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=2425&mid=2943:
Universal Sports will air footage from the A, B and C finals Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17. Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines will provide color commentary for the broadcast and Steve Schlanger will handle the play-by-play duties.
Swimnetwork.com will provide a LIVE online stream of the Universal Sports broadcast. In addition, Swimnetwork.com will also webcast the finals on Thursday, May 14 and the prelims from each day of competition. Swimnetwork.com will also feature on-demand footage of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday night finals as well as behind-the-scenes interviews with Olympic gold medalist Mel Stewart.
In addition, realtime results will be posted here: http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results09/index.htm
Ryan has not competed in a Grand Prix event since the Missouri Grand Prix in February...3 long months ago. I'm really looking forward to this weekend.
Next, I wasn't going to post this video because it doesn't have anything to do with actual swimming. However, it's entertaining so here goes:
Finally, in connection with the video posted above, Gold Medal Mel wrote an entry in his blog recognizing swimming fans who are not competitive swimmers. I thought it was so nice! Here is the link:
http://www.goldmedalmel.typepad.com/mel/2009/05/a-reezy-nation.html
3 comments:
ARRGGHHH... Swimnetwork.com crashed this morning just before the Men's 200m Free and Universal Sports was pretty much all about Michael since it was sponsored by Subway... Hopefully the 6pm show will be better.
Just re-watched the US broadcast from this morning and is it just me or did anyone else notice that Ryan was wearing a suit that looked almost 2 sizes too large (rather than his usual 2 sizes too small)???... Not sure if it was a drag suit or not but it just seemed odd since most of the others were wearing at least the shorter LZR or similar… I’m still learning about the whole swimming process so I'm not really familiar with the strategies, etc in a meet but it just seems to me that this might have affected his time… Hopefully Sat & Sun he will do better... I'll be rooting from my sofa and kicking myself in the head that I did not take my friend in Charlotte up on her guest room offer.
Hi LzzyBee1, where did you rewatch the U.S broadcast? I missed it due to the swimnetwork.com crash and would love to see it on reply. Thanks!!
p.s. sorry you didn't get to go.
I get US on my cable service here so I Tivo'd it... They only did a 1/2 hour show this morning at 10am and like I said they pretty much focused on Michael and the seeded heats only in the 200m Free... I'll bet though the footage will pop up somewhere on the internet very soon... Also, if you are watching it live on US online you are getting exactly what they are showing on TV and it's much clearer than what you usually get on Swimnetwork.
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