America Stunned at World Championships
Ricky Berens split a :48.56 in
prelims, only to get bumped in favor of Ryan Lochte, who wound up splitting a
:47.80 – exactly, and I do mean exactly, the difference between gold and silver
for the relay. Lochte has admitted he isn’t in the best shape heading
into these championships, but he was put on the relay anyway because the
coaching staff thought he was “fresh”.
Nobody likes a Monday Morning
coach, but in a sport so non-subjective as swimming, it shouldn’t have been
that hard to figure out who was really “fresh”.
Did the coaches get
lulled into thinking Lochte channeled his inner Phelps, or did he just have a
bad swim??
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