I'm old enough to remember the low 15min times that Steve Holland posted and was impressed. Now those times comes nowhere close to qualifying. How the sport has moved on. Also i heard elsewhere that Titmus's 200m WR from these champs is faster than Mark Spitz's gold winning time in 72!
That's crazy for Ariana Titmus to be able to swim as fast as Spitz did winning gold back in the eighties and like you said for any man to swim under 15:00 back in the day was considered superhuman and now it's over the qualifying times just goes to show how much the sport has improved.
Outstanding performance Matt, commiserations on missing the QT.
Heartbreaking but hold your head up high, you gave it everything you got. You did your country proud.
I'm old enough to remember the low 15min times that Steve Holland posted and was impressed. Now those times comes nowhere close to qualifying. How the sport has moved on. Also i heard elsewhere that Titmus's 200m WR from these champs is faster than Mark Spitz's gold winning time in 72!
That's crazy for Ariana Titmus to be able to swim as fast as Spitz did winning gold back in the eighties and like you said for any man to swim under 15:00 back in the day was considered superhuman and now it's over the qualifying times just goes to show how much the sport has improved.
It must be a heartbreaking after trying so hard to get the first place and eventually still not enough to qualifiy
Did his family proud