The 2012 Short Course World Championships take place every other year. The 2012 event is in Istanbul, Turkey and begins on Wednesday, December 12. For those of us in the U.S., Istanbul is 7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
The meet will televised by Universal Sports, a channel almost nobody receives. The Universal Sports website will have "highlight videos." Universal Sports is famous (infamous?) for producing shortened race videos, i.e. only the first and last 50's of a race are shown. It's horrible. Hopefully they will not do it this time.
The Event Page can be found here: http://universalsports.com/swimming/2012-fina-worlds-25m/
Realtime results can be found here: Omega Timing
I would encourage anyone in the US who wants to watch this event to download Expat Shield and watch it live on Eurosport. Other than dealing with the time change, you won't regret it.
As usual, read www.swimswam.com and www.swimmingworldmagazine.com for the most up-to-date news.
Ryan is scheduled to swim in 5 individual events: 200 Free, 100 Fly, 50 Fly, 200 IM and 200 Back. If he swims all three relays, he will be in 8 events total. The relay lineups have not yet been announced. Given the schedule below, I am going to guess that he swims in the 4 x 200 Free Relay and the 4 x 100 Medley Relay and not the 4 x 100 Free relay.
Click on the Heat Sheets below:
200 Free - Event 1 - Heat 9, Lane 6 (Wednesday, December 12 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
100 Fly - Event 7 - Heat 10, Lane 1 (Wednesday, December 12 - Morning Heats, Evening Semi-Finals)
(Thursday, December 13 - Evening Finals)
4 x 100 Free Relay (Wednesday, December 12 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
4 x 200 Free Relay (Thursday, December 13 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
50 Fly - Event 20 - Heat 9, Lane 6 (Friday, December 14 - Morning Heats, Evening Semi-Finals)
(Saturday, December 15 - Evening Finals)
200 IM - Event 23 - Heat 4, Lane 4 (Friday, December 14 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
100 IM - Event 30 - Heat 2, Lane 5 (Saturday, December 15 - Morning Heats, Evening Semi-Finals)
(Sunday, December 16 - Evening Finals)
200 Back - Event 35 - Heat 4, Lane 4 (Sunday, December 16 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
4 x 100 Medley Relay (Sunday, December 16 - Morning Heats, Evening Finals)
REVISED: Brian Pasek pointed out in the comments that Ryan is swimming the 100 IM. That's great news. I missed it when scanning the heat sheets last night.
Now I am even more convinced he will not swim in the 4 x 100 free relay. 6 individual events and 2 relays is a pretty heavy schedule.
4 comments:
Ryan's name is still on the heat sheets for the 100IM. How do you know that he scratched it? I agree, it would be disappointing if he scratches it...I figured he would want to chase that record.
thank you so much for letting me know about the 100IM! I looked at that heat sheet at least twice and missed his name both times. So happy he is going to swim it. Like in 2010 I think his his best chance of breaking the WR is in the semi-finals.
I will revise the entry to include the 100IM. Thanks again Brian!
What channel can I watch this on?
Anonymous the answer depends on where you are. If you are in Europe, you can watch on Eurosport.
If you are in the US, you can watch highlights on Universal Sports, a mythical channel that almost nobody has. You can watch highlights on www.universalsports.com, but they only have highlights and are not showing any of it live.
The only way to watch it live is to get a stream of Eurosport. Here are a couple of links that worked today: http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv/eurosport-live-stream
http://www8.livetv.ru/webplayer2.php?t=letontv&c=eurossss1&lang=en&eid=148601&lid=100775&ci=600&si=46
If you go this route, do not add any plugins or download anything. Just click through all of the annoying popups. You'll need patience but eventually you will be able to watch live.
Good luck.
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