Pan Pacs Day 1

Lochte: GREAT race in the 200

Women's 50 Free: Aussies everywhere; Marieke Guehrer and Emily Seebohm 1-2 in the A Final, and Yolane Kukla (also AUS) goes as fast as Guehrer to win the B-Final! That relay is
going to SCORCH!

Men's 50 Free: Cesar Cielo. Dominant! Takes down Schoeman and Cullen Jones (and another
Brasilian, Nicholas Santos, took second. And another BRA, Glauber Silva, won the B-Final. The Brasilians might have a relay, too.

Women's 200 Free: Looking good for the U.S. (I thought Dagny Knutson made the team here,
but I was wrong. So much for THAT prediction.) Allison Schmitt and Morgan Scroggy go 1-2 in the A-Final, and Dana Vollmer wins the B-Final in a time faster than Scroggy, only 0.3 second behind Schmitt. The USA vs. Aussie 800 relay should be good; U.S. should win.

Men's 200 Free: All Lochte, fastest time in the world this year. With Lochte, Vanderkaay, and Ricky Berens (won the B, would have been sixth by 0.02 in the A) that 800 free relay looks sound; is Phelps the fourth?

Women's 100 Back: Emily Seebohm 1st, Aya Terakawa 2nd, Natalie Coughlin 3rd. Close race. Natalie not quite in top form.

Men's 100 Back: As I tweeted, Peirsol makes the most of the opportunity Lochte gave him, wins with a comeback. Top six in the 53.31 to 54.06 range. WOW!

Women's 200 Butterfly: Schipper sneaks in. I thought Teresa Crippen would take it, but she could barely get her head out of the water in the last 15 meters. Still, she only missed out by 0.03.

Men's 200 Butterfly: Phelps manages to win his best event. He's not in great shape, but he's Michael Phelps. Real doubtful he'll win either IM, probably (but not certain) he'll win 100 fly.

Women's 800 Free: Kate Ziegler Returns. This one is interesting. The record, in faster suits, is 8:14. Kate went 8:21. I think her best time is 8:18.52 from the 2007 Worlds. If it is, that's really good for her. REALLY good.

Men's 1500 Free: Not much to write about here: 1st Canadian medal from winner Ryan Cochrane, 14:49. 2nd place Chad La Tourette, U.S., nice swim, nothing great, 14:54 (though I do remember when breaking 15:00 was a Big Deal).

Good start to the meet!