Phelps

[2.tso]

Ok now is your chance, the greatest swimmer to walk the earth (imho) is gearing up for what could be his best olympics. how many golds will he get????

he can swim 5 individual events and 3 relays.

[2.tso]

i think he will get 7 although it wont be a spits 7 it will be 6 world records

[Linny]

how many golds will he get????

he can swim 5 individual events and 3 relays.I don't think there is a restriction on the number of events someone can swim other than their own physical limitations. I mean could he not swim all 13 individual events and 3 relays if he qualified for them and felt that way inclined?

Last year he was ranked No 1 in USA for 200, 400 IM, 100, 200 free and 100, 200 fly. He was ranked number 2 in the 100 and 200 back and 3 in the 400 free. He could potentially qualify for all of those events. He could potentially win each of them too in isolation although not I guess if he tried to win them all.

So, much as I can't believe he would take up all those places, I don't think that there would be anything stopping him.

[2.tso]

somthing tells me there is a restriction i remeber reading about it somewhere. i will find out tho!

[Juicy Lucy]

Well, he'd like to beat the seven golds of Mark Spitz. If he's picked for all relays then I'll go for 8 golds.

[2.tso]

I don't think there is a restriction on the number of events someone can swim other than their own physical limitations. I mean could he not swim all 13 individual events and 3 relays if he qualified for them and felt that way inclined?

Last year he was ranked No 1 in USA for 200, 400 IM, 100, 200 free and 100, 200 fly. He was ranked number 2 in the 100 and 200 back and 3 in the 400 free. He could potentially qualify for all of those events. He could potentially win each of them too in isolation although not I guess if he tried to win them all.

So, much as I can't believe he would take up all those places, I don't think that there would be anything stopping him.


cant find it linny i will email soeone to see if i have been mistaken! it does happen

[Linny]

cant find it linny i will email soeone to see if i have been mistaken! it does happenIn the best interests of the Nation as a whole, it would make sense in some ways for NGBs, especially those of the larger swimming nations, to write clauses into their selection policies to restrict the number of events any one individual can take part in especially if qualification takes place over a period of time (although clearly that doesn't happen in the USA).

I just haven't heard of it being an Olympic Games policy, nor a USA Swimming policy. Happy to learn though if it is. :D

[2.tso]

its not an olympic policy i haev just read through all the stuff, i cant find it anywere so i sent an email off to bob to ask.

[Katie]

If they can compete in a large number of events and thereby qualify for them at their trials, I suppose there's no reason swimmers shouldn't compete in all those events at the Games themselves, unless the Trials are held over a ridiculously long period or have a completely different order of events to the Games. But then I suppose you have to factor in relays as well.

[selkie]

USA swimming sometimes has had rules about 'impossible doubles' (back to back events) for their international teams and about how if it's felt like a swimmer can't do both by the National Team Director, the NTD and the swimmer will work together to determine which of the two events the swimmer will compete in at the big meet.

But with someone like Phelps who clears lactic acid so well from his body, no reason to keep him out of an event that he can perform at the highest level at, even on very short rest. He's earned the right to be there, so he swims.

[Woodward]

It's been pointed out that if Phelps swims the same events in Beijing that he swam at the World Championships he would not have more than one individual final per day.