Last year I wrote a long blog entry making the point that Ryan should win athlete of the year. He won & I believe it was a great decision. None of that was necessary this year. Given his performance at Nationals and Pan Pacs Ryan should win athlete of the year easily.
Ryan is also up for two other awards - relay of the year and race of the year - that he should win as well. For race of the year, his 200 IM at Pan Pacs was the high point swim of the year at 1015. Not even Yang Sun's 1500m free (1010 points) or Camille Lacourt's 100m back (1006 points) were higher. For relay of the year, either the men's 4 x 100m free relay or 4 x 200m free relay at Pan Pacs could win, but I'd have to go with the 4 x 200, for which Ryan swam anchor. The 4 x 200 relay time was the fastest in the world by 3 seconds. Nobody else came close.
For the first time ever, Golden Goggles will be live streamed by www.swimnetwork.com The broadcast begins at 7:15 pm Eastern Time. Hope I can get home from work in time to watch!
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