PTD

Post Tour Depression

It hits you on the Monday after the tour is over, and you realize that while you are at work, that you can’t tune in to see how today’s stage is going. And in the evening you can’t sit and watch the cyclists, and the French countryside, and listen to Phil, Paul and Bobke.

And you feel a bit sad, dare I say, depressed? Well, NO! Because now the Swimming World Championships are going on, and in two days there have been record smashing swims already!

15 year old Swedish girl broke the world record in the 100gly, swimming ala Michael Phelps, last at the turn, and then you’d have thought she had a turbo charger that she flipped on, as she rocked the last 25 and blew by the entire field. It was an incredible swim!

Arian Kukors, third at the trials, only swimming at worlds, because Pelton decided to not swim the event, and she smashes the 200IM world record by 1.5 seconds in the semis, and then takes another second off in the final. 2:06 is smoking fast. A really beautiful swim to watch.

Pellegrini becoming the first woman to break 4:00 in the 400 free was simply awesome! Ohhh, to swim freestyle like her.

Rebecca Soni a new world record in the semi’s of the 100 breaststroke. She just keeps getting better and better. Her stroke is beautiful to watch.

Yeah for the women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little sad for Aaron Piersol for misjudging the effort he needed to put out to make it into the finals of the 100 back.

Cracking up at Ryan Lochte’s comment that he is happy that FINA is reverting back to the old fabric suits, that he likes it old school, and would race in a banana hammock. He had the whole media room in stitches.

Can’t wait to see Lochte and Phelps swim some individual events.

You can catch any and all of the action on universalsports.com

Also, just saw on twitter that George Hincapie does have a broken collarbone – he’s such a bad ass, climbing Ventoux and pushing the pace on the cobbles in Paris, with a broken body.