However, we must remember the incomparable 2017 of Sjöström
It’s World Cup time, but it’s also time for anniversaries.
This summer, Sarah Sjostrom’s most astonishing world record hit five years.
But it’s a pretend record that should never have counted.
It was a revolution. Deception exploited by the system.
In the summer of 2017, I sat in Donna Square in Budapest and saw that Sweden was second in the World Cup final for the 4x100m freestyle. We had the peaks but not the show, so the golden opportunity wasn’t much bigger than that Daniel Stoll He was in swimming.
The Swedes used to design tactics to hide the fact that they lacked four notable names – you can always lay your weakest card early and hope for a smooth, slow start.
But the World Cup final has begun Sarah Sjostrom. To us on dry land, it looked like a white flag, as if you had fitted your Ståhl with rain gear before the Volt.
“What or what? Fifty one?”
And yes, the reversal gave a worse finish than in the trials, but that’s no reason to remember the race.
I don’t even remember who won (Google says USA), but I do remember the explosion. spray. Additions in swimwear. The knowledgeable Hungarian audience who cheered and shouted in the middle of the team’s race, the fans who lost focus on the big fight, the Swede who cheered.
– What did you get ??? , asked Michelle Coleman then.
– 51.7! for Sarah.
– Fa? femmetiwit???
This post has allowed me to see many Swedish successes at once, but none to break the water cycle of Sarah Sjostrom 2017. The Olympic gold in 2016 is the biggest, but the following year the Swede was named the best swimmer in the world in all categories. First time. Three gold, one silver and for a while the world record holders in eight distances.
Chip bowls should be thrown away
We didn’t praise her enough for that. Perhaps this is the fault of the tournament intensity, the confusion regarding the short and long trajectory, these vague European leagues and even the murkier separatist league.
Sarah Sjöström’s films 2013, 2016 and 2019 are amazing, but 2017 is the golden year that no Swedish swimmer can compete with.
And after. Now that the World Cup is back in the same spot – and Sarah Sjostrom has avoided breaking an elbow while recharging – it should be pointed out that 51.71 out of a hundred should be settled as a world record. It’s a bad rule to play the first leg in team matches and score as individual efforts.
For God’s sake and Frölander, I swam a quarter of the team’s race – not the individual hundred!
It’s amazing to cover a hundred meters freestyle in under 52 seconds no matter the conditions, but there’s a difference between doing it alone and in the middle of the relay. The waves are different, you avoid the stress of lying next to an almost equally strong swimmer – and yes, that feels wrong. It is very ordinary and very given.
World records should make everyone stop, bowls of potato chips should be thrown away, sodas should be spit out of mouths. World records shouldn’t be set on the go, while other things are going on, so beware that half of them miss. We won’t see much progress from Stina Blackstenius to see if she qualifies for Finnkampen’s sprint championship.
Sarah Sjostrom will compete in three water courses this year, the one hundred fifty freestyle and fifty butterfly, which does not allow her to repeat in 2017. There will also be no Swedish women’s freestyle.
The 28-year-old still holds world records in the four long-distances. This is not wise. But if I can dream, 51.71 smokes off the rolls after the 100m freestyle final.
Glad that Sarah Sjöström beat her monster time. But if you’re not, then Molly O’Callaghan or Siobhan Houghi are welcome to meet just right.
Yes, anyone does well. For five years, the world record for the hundred-meter freestyle was not taken from the branch of the hundred-meter freestyle.
So we can’t have it.
