Speaking of water, Katie was able to swim again today at Worlds & helped Team USA to the silver in the Women’s 4 x 200 Relay; new American record too. Also, “Flybabe” (AKA Caeleb Dressel, hey “Sweet Pea” was taken! 🙂 ) won the GOLD in the 100 Free (as he did in 2017). So far, he has 3 Golds & a Silver & still several races to go.
Unfortunately, Lilly King was DQed in the 200 Breast heats. The cause of the DQ was not stated on the TV last night & I had to wait to read about it today. You’ll probably snort that I’m an ignoramus as I did not know that one must put BOTH hands on the wall at the SAME TIME on a turn & they say Lilly failed to do so on turn#1. Is this true on all strokes or just the Breaststroke? Gosh, that’d be tricky in the Back! Well, she has the 50 still, so hopefully she’ll channel any anger into the pool. I think she will also still have the Women’s 4 x 100 Medley Relay too.
Meanwhile, on land in France : 2 riders from teams that will be “throwing down” the next 3 days in the Alps were thrown out of the Tour yesterday. It seems one of Team Deathstar’s boys tried to crash Kruijswik (currently sitting #3 & a mere 12 seconds behind Ineos’ Geraint) & one of the Dutch boy’s homies wasn’t having THAT & tried to run the perp off the road. Said perp then grabs the Jumbo defender by the jersey & waves his wrist at him (or something to that effect). I’m telling ya, this sport is a soap opera on wheels. 🙂
Speaking of water, Katie was able to swim again today at Worlds & helped Team USA to the silver in the Women’s 4 x 200 Relay; new American record too. Also, “Flybabe” (AKA Caeleb Dressel, hey “Sweet Pea” was taken! 🙂 ) won the GOLD in the 100 Free (as he did in 2017). So far, he has 3 Golds & a Silver & still several races to go.
Unfortunately, Lilly King was DQed in the 200 Breast heats. The cause of the DQ was not stated on the TV last night & I had to wait to read about it today. You’ll probably snort that I’m an ignoramus as I did not know that one must put BOTH hands on the wall at the SAME TIME on a turn & they say Lilly failed to do so on turn#1. Is this true on all strokes or just the Breaststroke? Gosh, that’d be tricky in the Back! Well, she has the 50 still, so hopefully she’ll channel any anger into the pool. I think she will also still have the Women’s 4 x 100 Medley Relay too.
Meanwhile, on land in France : 2 riders from teams that will be “throwing down” the next 3 days in the Alps were thrown out of the Tour yesterday. It seems one of Team Deathstar’s boys tried to crash Kruijswik (currently sitting #3 & a mere 12 seconds behind Ineos’ Geraint) & one of the Dutch boy’s homies wasn’t having THAT & tried to run the perp off the road. Said perp then grabs the Jumbo defender by the jersey & waves his wrist at him (or something to that effect). I’m telling ya, this sport is a soap opera on wheels. 🙂
Have fun splashing around. 🙂