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Old 31-07-2012, 22:03   #63
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Re: The London 2012 Olympics: Sports discussion
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Originally Posted by danielf View Post
Is it not a little surprising then that (for such a young girl) she's not improved her PB over what's likely to be around 1.5 years, and then smashes it with a world record on the biggest stage of all?

Surely, you'd expect her to at least show some gradual improvement?
It happens. I'm not a swimming expert by any means but it's not unknown for swimmers to smash their personal bests. Stepanie Rice took something like 5 seconds off her PB in the same event at the last olympics.
Phelps has taken over 7 seconds off the world record in this event over 6 years.

People talk about how she was faster than Lochte, yes but only for one length - he was 20 odd seconds faster overal.
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