Uh-oh, we have another controversy:
The credibility of Olympic swimming, already suffering from spats and doping scandals, has been further damaged by serious discrepancies in the entry times of a number of competitors.
The Olympic entry lists show many of the swimmers competing in Rio achieved their entry times at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan in August 2015. In nine cases the entry times listed do not match the times recorded at those championships. Another eight are listed as having achieved entry times in events in which they did not compete or were disqualified from. The 17 athletes are from 16 different countries, and include 11 men and six women.
Kenya picked Hamdan Bayusuf. He is one of the 17 swimmers whose entry time for Rio has changed. Bayusuf’s time for the 100m backstroke was listed as 59.99sec, achieved in the first heat in Kazan on 3 August, 2015. The results sheet from that race shows his time was 1min 07sec. A Fina representative showed the Guardian the original nomination forms that listed Mohamed’s qualifying time as 1min 07sec. The representative said Fina had no idea how the wrong time of 59.99sec appeared on the entry list.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/10/olympic-swimming-credibility-doubt-questions-entry-times
Swimming notes:
In one of the 100 FS heats, a woman finished in 1:05.7. That sure sounds clean to me. When I was younger, I could beat that time easily.
Going into tonight, the U.S. had medalled in 15/16 swimming events. They failed to medal in one of the finals tonight, and got shut out of another final that will be raced tomorrow.
Peavy won the 100 breastroke by more than 1.5 seconds. In the 200 breaststroke, the time difference between first and 8th was well under one second.
Remember that in the 4 x 100 FS relay, Phelps did a 47.1 split? Assuming a 0.7 second reaction time, that would be 47.8. His teammate Nathan Adrian, defending champion in the 100 FS, took the bronze tonight with 47.8. Phelps, not a sprinter by any means, and not a FS specialist, would have actually been in the mix in that race.
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