[needle]

Grant Fisher with gutty and impressive bronze medal in the 10k

Great race by Grant! If Wikipedia is correct, he's only the fourth American to ever medal in the 10k in the Olympics, and he did so in a race where the winner, Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, set an Olympic record.

[needle]

Grant Fisher with gutty and impressive bronze medal in the 10k

Great race by Grant! If Wikipedia is correct, he's only the fourth American to ever medal in the 10k in the Olympics, and he did so in a race where the winner, Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, set an Olympic record.

[Nobadeer]

BobK is the expert but in my view, that was the best race of Fisher's life! About 10 seconds slower than his PR but what a brilliant race, and the last lap showed his superb conditioning. I think Fisher is the first US men's medalist in the 10K since Galen Rupp. And the Stade de France was roaring with noise for the entire race.

Go USA and LSJU!

[Nobadeer]

BobK is the expert but in my view, that was the best race of Fisher's life! About 10 seconds slower than his PR but what a brilliant race, and the last lap showed his superb conditioning. I think Fisher is the first US men's medalist in the 10K since Galen Rupp. And the Stade de France was roaring with noise for the entire race.

Go USA and LSJU!

[JJJ]

Erik Shoji and USMVB beat Japan to become a top 3 seed in the quarterfinals, while Japan takes one set to also advance to the quarters.

[JJJ]

Erik Shoji and USMVB beat Japan to become a top 3 seed in the quarterfinals, while Japan takes one set to also advance to the quarters.

[BobK]

Incredible race by Fisher. brobdingnagian congrats to him
Whitaker moves on to semis
Allman to finals
Cranny to Finals
I haven’t seen Williams score maybe 7th after day
What a day for Stanford

[BobK]

Incredible race by Fisher. brobdingnagian congrats to him
Whitaker moves on to semis
Allman to finals
Cranny to Finals
I haven’t seen Williams score maybe 7th after day
What a day for Stanford

[FarmTeam]

BobK is the expert but in my view, that was the best race of Fisher's life! About 10 seconds slower than his PR but what a brilliant race, and the last lap showed his superb conditioning. I think Fisher is the first US men's medalist in the 10K since Galen Rupp. And the Stade de France was roaring with noise for the entire race.

Go USA and LSJU!

That's an easy one. His PR was set in pristine weather conditions in a rabbited, time trial-type effort. This was in relatively warm and muggy conditions (big difference) in a choppy and competitive high-stakes race in which time didn't matter. It's probably "worth" 26:25 in better conditions. AND of course he got an Olympic medal. In that field, just amazing. Unlike Galen, I'd bet anything that Grant is a clean athlete too.

[FarmTeam]

BobK is the expert but in my view, that was the best race of Fisher's life! About 10 seconds slower than his PR but what a brilliant race, and the last lap showed his superb conditioning. I think Fisher is the first US men's medalist in the 10K since Galen Rupp. And the Stade de France was roaring with noise for the entire race.

Go USA and LSJU!

That's an easy one. His PR was set in pristine weather conditions in a rabbited, time trial-type effort. This was in relatively warm and muggy conditions (big difference) in a choppy and competitive high-stakes race in which time didn't matter. It's probably "worth" 26:25 in better conditions. AND of course he got an Olympic medal. In that field, just amazing. Unlike Galen, I'd bet anything that Grant is a clean athlete too.

[82lsju]

Henken Earns Bronze

Hans Henken and his teammate Ian Barrows finished third overall in the Men's Skiff at the 2024 Paris Olympics

https://gostanford.com/news/2024/08/2/he...rns-bronze

[82lsju]

Henken Earns Bronze

Hans Henken and his teammate Ian Barrows finished third overall in the Men's Skiff at the 2024 Paris Olympics

https://gostanford.com/news/2024/08/2/he...rns-bronze

[terry]

Number of medals by college:

https://twitter.com/TeamUSACollege/statu...4123065727

This list appears to include only medals for members of team USA, so it doesn't include Stanford alum Vivian Kong's fencing gold medal for Hong Kong.

[terry]

Number of medals by college:

https://twitter.com/TeamUSACollege/statu...4123065727

This list appears to include only medals for members of team USA, so it doesn't include Stanford alum Vivian Kong's fencing gold medal for Hong Kong.

[82lsju]

Chatain Wins Bronze

Stanford alum medals with U.S. boat in men's eights

https://gostanford.com/news/2024/08/3/ch...ins-bronze

[82lsju]

Chatain Wins Bronze

Stanford alum medals with U.S. boat in men's eights

https://gostanford.com/news/2024/08/3/ch...ins-bronze

[Mick]

Medal count by college and country, from the www.ncaa.com site.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/olympics-...etes-paris

[Mick]

Medal count by college and country, from the www.ncaa.com site.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/olympics-...etes-paris

[82lsju]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

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Does Huske have any races left? A relay?

I think she's done.

she's not done

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

[82lsju]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

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Does Huske have any races left? A relay?

I think she's done.

she's not done

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

[Nobadeer]

Ledecky and Huske have been the superstars for the US swim team in Paris. It looked like Ledecky was breathing every stroke cycle right to the end of the 800m race. She was kicking as hard as I've seen her in an 800. I'll have to watch the replay of Huske's amazing anchor leg to see if she took a breath in the last ~ 15+ m. What a swim, it led to a world record time and the gold medal.  

And nice decathlon outcome for Harrison Williams, 7th overall.

USA! USA! and The Leland Stanford Jr. University!!

[Nobadeer]

Ledecky and Huske have been the superstars for the US swim team in Paris. It looked like Ledecky was breathing every stroke cycle right to the end of the 800m race. She was kicking as hard as I've seen her in an 800. I'll have to watch the replay of Huske's amazing anchor leg to see if she took a breath in the last ~ 15+ m. What a swim, it led to a world record time and the gold medal.  

And nice decathlon outcome for Harrison Williams, 7th overall.

USA! USA! and The Leland Stanford Jr. University!!

[M T]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

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Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims. (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)

Huske will probably anchor the women's 400 medley relay as well.  Regan Smith will be on that relay. (Smith, King, Walsh, Huske)   It looks like a good chance for a gold there. (Woofing gods, please note I am using times from this meet:  US up 1.7 seconds over Australia on the breaststroke leg, so should beat Australia by a second.  US up 2.2 seconds on China on the backstroke leg, so should beat China by 2 seconds.)

One of the discouraging things to this old-timer is how most of the swimmers look hardly winded after their races.
But Huske looked appropriately exhausted.  The China swimmer might have had her in another 5 meters.

Huske had a noticeably slow start on her leg. I saw no reason for it due to the finish of the previous swimmer.  My guess is the team & she under-estimated China and thought that a safe start was more important than a good start.  (Huske had beaten the China swimmer by 0.5 in the individual event.)

The splits were Murphy 52.08 (0.31 better than his 3rd pl in 100m back; would have gotten 2nd), Fink 58.29 (0.76 better than his T2 in 100 breast), Walsh 55.18 (0.35 better than 2nd in 100m breast), Huske 51.88 (0.41 better than 2nd in 100m free)

China certainly did better than Rowdy thought.  The US individually beat China except in the breaststroke leg.  Qin went 57.82, an amazing 1.68 seconds better than in the individual event (59.50 but 58.93 in semis; 58.51 in the men's relay prelims; lifetime best is 57.69). The winning time in the individual event was a 59.03.  Rowdy said Qin underperformed in the meet but not in the relay.  Perhaps he was sick & got better.  Yang's freestyle split was 0.96 better then in the individual event.

If Fink had swum that fast in the 100 Breast event, he would have won by a quarter second.  But if Qin had swum that fast in the individual event, he would have won by about 0.75.

[M T]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

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Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims. (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)

Huske will probably anchor the women's 400 medley relay as well.  Regan Smith will be on that relay. (Smith, King, Walsh, Huske)   It looks like a good chance for a gold there. (Woofing gods, please note I am using times from this meet:  US up 1.7 seconds over Australia on the breaststroke leg, so should beat Australia by a second.  US up 2.2 seconds on China on the backstroke leg, so should beat China by 2 seconds.)

One of the discouraging things to this old-timer is how most of the swimmers look hardly winded after their races.
But Huske looked appropriately exhausted.  The China swimmer might have had her in another 5 meters.

Huske had a noticeably slow start on her leg. I saw no reason for it due to the finish of the previous swimmer.  My guess is the team & she under-estimated China and thought that a safe start was more important than a good start.  (Huske had beaten the China swimmer by 0.5 in the individual event.)

The splits were Murphy 52.08 (0.31 better than his 3rd pl in 100m back; would have gotten 2nd), Fink 58.29 (0.76 better than his T2 in 100 breast), Walsh 55.18 (0.35 better than 2nd in 100m breast), Huske 51.88 (0.41 better than 2nd in 100m free)

China certainly did better than Rowdy thought.  The US individually beat China except in the breaststroke leg.  Qin went 57.82, an amazing 1.68 seconds better than in the individual event (59.50 but 58.93 in semis; 58.51 in the men's relay prelims; lifetime best is 57.69). The winning time in the individual event was a 59.03.  Rowdy said Qin underperformed in the meet but not in the relay.  Perhaps he was sick & got better.  Yang's freestyle split was 0.96 better then in the individual event.

If Fink had swum that fast in the 100 Breast event, he would have won by a quarter second.  But if Qin had swum that fast in the individual event, he would have won by about 0.75.

[M T]

A bit off topic, but since I already mentioned a swimmer that are in these articles, it seems not far off topic.

As you may have heard, there is some controversy about drug testing, with China complaining they are being tested much more frequently.
I noticed this article about the testers showing up at 5:45AM to test French swimmer Marchand but the testers went to where they thought he was in the Olympic village, but his team had previously notified that he was staying elsewhere that night.

That article lead me to this SwimSwam article in which a Chinese swimmer comments on the frequency of testing and asserting that the Chinese swimmers are clean.   I am not suggesting anything, but the article does mention one of the swimmers I previously mentioned as having an amazing improvement in the middle of this Olympics.  Here's what that swimmer says about testing. (The "almost 200 tests [in 10 days]" and "5-7 testers[sic] per day" don't seem to add up.)  It makes me wonder about reasons for that improvement.

[M T]

A bit off topic, but since I already mentioned a swimmer that are in these articles, it seems not far off topic.

As you may have heard, there is some controversy about drug testing, with China complaining they are being tested much more frequently.
I noticed this article about the testers showing up at 5:45AM to test French swimmer Marchand but the testers went to where they thought he was in the Olympic village, but his team had previously notified that he was staying elsewhere that night.

That article lead me to this SwimSwam article in which a Chinese swimmer comments on the frequency of testing and asserting that the Chinese swimmers are clean.   I am not suggesting anything, but the article does mention one of the swimmers I previously mentioned as having an amazing improvement in the middle of this Olympics.  Here's what that swimmer says about testing. (The "almost 200 tests [in 10 days]" and "5-7 testers[sic] per day" don't seem to add up.)  It makes me wonder about reasons for that improvement.

[M T]

The #9 US men's water polo team is 1-2, beating Romania (14-8), but losing to Italy (8-12) and Greece (11-13).  I don't think they're going to get out of pool play.  One of their two remaining pool matches is against #1 Croatia while the other is against #8 Montenegro.

The US did beat Montenegro relatively easily 12-7.  Even before they play Croatia, they are guaranteed to go on to the quarterfinals.
They looked a lot better today!

The US women beat France 17-5 yesterday and will be in the quarterfinals.

[M T]

The #9 US men's water polo team is 1-2, beating Romania (14-8), but losing to Italy (8-12) and Greece (11-13).  I don't think they're going to get out of pool play.  One of their two remaining pool matches is against #1 Croatia while the other is against #8 Montenegro.

The US did beat Montenegro relatively easily 12-7.  Even before they play Croatia, they are guaranteed to go on to the quarterfinals.
They looked a lot better today!

The US women beat France 17-5 yesterday and will be in the quarterfinals.

[82 Card]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold. I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

[82 Card]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold. I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

[82lsju]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

[82lsju]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

[Nobadeer]

Just saw the NBC replay of the 4x100 mixed medley. Huske indeed took no breaths, i.e., went hypoxic, for her final 3 1/2 stroke cycles which is beyond impressive coming at the end of a neck-and-neck all-out sprint, a lifetime best 51.88 !! 

For me, that rivals Jason Lezak overtaking Alain Bernard in Beijing/2008 and Bruce Hayes holding off Michael Gross in LA/1984 for the best anchor legs ever by a US swimmer at the Olympics. Just pure magic by Huske.

Let's go Huske, LSJU, USA!

[Nobadeer]

Just saw the NBC replay of the 4x100 mixed medley. Huske indeed took no breaths, i.e., went hypoxic, for her final 3 1/2 stroke cycles which is beyond impressive coming at the end of a neck-and-neck all-out sprint, a lifetime best 51.88 !! 

For me, that rivals Jason Lezak overtaking Alain Bernard in Beijing/2008 and Bruce Hayes holding off Michael Gross in LA/1984 for the best anchor legs ever by a US swimmer at the Olympics. Just pure magic by Huske.

Let's go Huske, LSJU, USA!

[M T]

Just saw the NBC replay of the 4x100 mixed medley. Huske indeed took no breaths, i.e., went hypoxic, for her final 3 1/2 stroke cycles which is beyond impressive coming at the end of a neck-and-neck all-out sprint, a lifetime best 51.88 !! 

That's about 4 seconds.  That's similar to the time she (or any of the swimmers for any stroke) was under water on the turn.  Sorry, but not taking a breath at the end of a race is no big deal.  If you do take a breath in that span for freestyle, it would generally be viewed as a negative (or, at least it used to be, back in prehistoric times).

What was quite good was her overall time, but it was only 0.14 seconds better than her individual race after adjusting for a relay start.  Each of the US swimmers swam slightly better than their individual race.  Subtracting her reaction times from total time gives 51.66 for her individual race, and 51.52  for the mixed medley relay.

Here are the reaction times for the Mixed 400 MR.  0.59, 0.29, 0.36, 0.36 for the 4 swimmers. Pretty pedestrian relay starts. The 3 relay starts for the US add up to 1.01 seconds.  For China, it was 0.84; Australia, 0.68; France, 0.72; Canada, 0.61; Netherlands, 0.85; Great Britain, 0.71; Japan 0.72.

So the US lost about 0.3 seconds on their relay starts to most of the field.  I still believe that is because they were told to make safe starts (esp. after Huske's 0.00 reaction time on the 400 FR).   It almost cost them the race.  If China's relay starts were as fast as Japan or France, they would have tied for first; If as fast as Australia, Canada, or Great Britain, China would have won.  (But on the day of the race, no one thought that China's breaststroker Qin would miraculously swim SO much faster. than his 3 other 100 Breast races in this meet.)

[M T]

Just saw the NBC replay of the 4x100 mixed medley. Huske indeed took no breaths, i.e., went hypoxic, for her final 3 1/2 stroke cycles which is beyond impressive coming at the end of a neck-and-neck all-out sprint, a lifetime best 51.88 !! 

That's about 4 seconds.  That's similar to the time she (or any of the swimmers for any stroke) was under water on the turn.  Sorry, but not taking a breath at the end of a race is no big deal.  If you do take a breath in that span for freestyle, it would generally be viewed as a negative (or, at least it used to be, back in prehistoric times).

What was quite good was her overall time, but it was only 0.14 seconds better than her individual race after adjusting for a relay start.  Each of the US swimmers swam slightly better than their individual race.  Subtracting her reaction times from total time gives 51.66 for her individual race, and 51.52  for the mixed medley relay.

Here are the reaction times for the Mixed 400 MR.  0.59, 0.29, 0.36, 0.36 for the 4 swimmers. Pretty pedestrian relay starts. The 3 relay starts for the US add up to 1.01 seconds.  For China, it was 0.84; Australia, 0.68; France, 0.72; Canada, 0.61; Netherlands, 0.85; Great Britain, 0.71; Japan 0.72.

So the US lost about 0.3 seconds on their relay starts to most of the field.  I still believe that is because they were told to make safe starts (esp. after Huske's 0.00 reaction time on the 400 FR).   It almost cost them the race.  If China's relay starts were as fast as Japan or France, they would have tied for first; If as fast as Australia, Canada, or Great Britain, China would have won.  (But on the day of the race, no one thought that China's breaststroker Qin would miraculously swim SO much faster. than his 3 other 100 Breast races in this meet.)

[82 Card]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

It still doesn't show up in the medal count at https://gostanford.com/paris2024

[82 Card]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

It still doesn't show up in the medal count at https://gostanford.com/paris2024

[M T]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

It still doesn't show up in the medal count at https://gostanford.com/paris2024

That page, where they have the events for the swimmers, doesn't even list the 4x100 Mixed Medley Relay as an event for Huske, much less Smith.

[M T]

Katie Ledecky wins gold in the 800m freestyle for her ninth career gold medal!!!

---

Torri Huske wins gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay!!!

   AND a World Record.

Regan Smith also gets a gold medal for that relay as she swam on it for the prelims.  (Oh, wow, Abbey Weitzel also was on it! So she comes away with a Silver (400 FR prelims) and Gold.)
....

For some reason, GoStanford doesn't list Regan Smith's gold.  I believe Weitzel was a Bear.

they do now

Smith (prelims) and Huske (GOLD MEDAL, 3:37.43)

It still doesn't show up in the medal count at https://gostanford.com/paris2024

That page, where they have the events for the swimmers, doesn't even list the 4x100 Mixed Medley Relay as an event for Huske, much less Smith.