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Which team wins a final first?

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Rowsus

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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics British swimmer Rebecca Adlington won the Women's 800m swimming Gold Medal in a time of 8:14:10.
It took 2.12 seconds off one of the oldest Women's Swimming World Records, held by Janet Evans for 18 years 362 days at 8:16:22.
Since Evans set that record 34 years 121 days ago, only Adlington and one other swimmer have swum quicker to win a race.
That other swimmer is Katie Ledecky. Ledecky's current World Record is 8:04:79 a whole 11.43 seconds faster than Evans best time, that stood for 19 years as a World record.

What makes Ledecky's efforts even more amazing is, she currently holds the 23 fastest times ever recorded for the Women's 800m!!!!
 
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Rowsus said:
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics British swimmer Rebecca Adlington won the Women's 800m swimming Gold Medal in a time of 8:14:10.
It took 2.12 seconds off one of the oldest Women's Swimming World Records, held by Janet Evans for 18 years 362 days at 8:16:22.
Since Evans set that record 34 years 121 days ago, only Adlington and one other swimmer have swum quicker to win a race.
That other swimmer is Katie Ledecky. Ledecky's current World Record is 8:04:79 a whole 11.43 seconds faster than Evans best time, that stood for 19 years as a World record.

What makes Ledecky's efforts even more amazing is, she currently holds the 23 fastest times ever recorded for the Women's 800m!!!!
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To be fair you need to take the 2008 swimming results with a pinch of salt. As per the article below (edited to make it shorter).

Overall, 25 world swimming records were shattered, the most in the sport since 1976, when goggles were used for the first time. But there was a problem: According to Speedo, 98 percent of the records shattered were broken while wearing a specially designed swimsuit, Speedo's LZR Racer.

Of the 25 world swimming records set overall at the Beijing Games, 23 were set while wearing the LZR Racer, a polyurethane swimsuit that covered nearly the whole body. This LZR Racer-wearing group included Phelps.

The effects were so powerful that they caused an existential crisis in the sport — the suit was that good. The coach of the Japanese national swimming team broke an existing sponsor agreement to allow his athletes to wear the suit: "if swimmers don’t wear the LZR Racer, they won’t be able to compete," he said.

By 2010, the fate of the LZR racer was sealed: FINA, the international governing body of swimming banned swimsuits that might aid speed, buoyancy and performance — including the LZR Racer. The wording of that by-law stands to this day and is clearly influenced by the science that made the LZR Racer so damn fast.
 
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Manikato1 said:
To be fair you need to take the 2008 swimming results with a pinch of salt. As per the article below (edited to make it shorter).

Overall, 25 world swimming records were shattered, the most in the sport since 1976, when goggles were used for the first time. But there was a problem: According to Speedo, 98 percent of the records shattered were broken while wearing a specially designed swimsuit, Speedo's LZR Racer.

Of the 25 world swimming records set overall at the Beijing Games, 23 were set while wearing the LZR Racer, a polyurethane swimsuit that covered nearly the whole body. This LZR Racer-wearing group included Phelps.

The effects were so powerful that they caused an existential crisis in the sport — the suit was that good. The coach of the Japanese national swimming team broke an existing sponsor agreement to allow his athletes to wear the suit: "if swimmers don’t wear the LZR Racer, they won’t be able to compete," he said.

By 2010, the fate of the LZR racer was sealed: FINA, the international governing body of swimming banned swimsuits that might aid speed, buoyancy and performance — including the LZR Racer. The wording of that by-law stands to this day and is clearly influenced by the science that made the LZR Racer so damn fast.
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Totally agree.
My post was more to highlight, that she has the 23 fastest times ever swum at that distance, and nobody has even come close to beating her 23rd best time!
 
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Just a heads up about Supercoach Plus subscriptions. When you sign up for Plus you automatically agree to a recurring anual debit to your account. Nowhere on the website is there an option to unsubscribe, so you have to call customer service to unsubscibe. This morning I received a debit of $24.95 for Supercoach Plus that I didn't want. On speaking to customer service about getting a refund I was informed that because I had automatically agreeded to the terms and conditions a refund was not available. This made me pretty angry (not to the service rep) and I believe this kind practise should be illegal. I'm just venting with this post, but it is something to be aware of.
 
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