I think we’re gonna see more of the Popovicis (100 & 200) than the Dressels (50 & 100) going forward. 50 is gonna be more and more of a specialize event for swimmers like McEvoy & Proud and they’re gonna have a longer career doing that like Manaudou & Ervin.
idk what to say about this, cielo was a big inspiration because of the sprinter i knew, cielo is stil the record holder and that's to be respected. great work threw and threw cielo, i feel lochte could have done it if he focused on one race but cielo is still the record holder and on top of all men in that race.
@@ccbgaming6994 Also with George Bovell III in that same post-grad training group. In 2009, all three of them went 21.2 or faster...it was crazy times. Yes, they had the super suits, but that generation of Auburn sprinters were true trailblazers. Fred did the first sub-19 in SCY and the first sub-21 in LCM. And then Cesar kind of left the high water marks in both for a long time. I have to admit, while I always root for my fellow Americans, I was also very much rooting for Cesar in the 50 in Beijing. I swam D1 (at my humble mid-major university) and from 2005-2008, I had seen his name atop the NCAA Top-100 rankings that my coach had dropped in our email inboxes once a month since 2005. I had remember scowering the internet for mid season college meet results in those years (no SwimCloud or Meet Mobile back then) and I had just felt like, even though he gave up his last year of college swimming to focus on LCM and do something truly crazy, he really developed himself here in the American University system and represented something I felt privileged just to be a part of. I knew a lot of other Americans that felt the same about Cesar, Fred, & George in 2008-2009. Also, all three of them have been super classy in every interview I have seen them in.
