Swimmers adjust to early-morning finals (Detroit Free Pressの記事)
Detroit Free Pressに今回のグランプリでの夕方予選、午前中決勝のトライについて記事が出ています。
Michael Phelps選手、Kaitlin Sandeno 選手やKatie Hoff 選手が午前中のFainalに向けてコーヒーを飲んだり、体を温めるため帽子やブーツを履いたり、5:30からwake-up swimをするなど、早朝の行動を通常と変えてよい結果を出していることや、Ryan Lochte選手やDavis Tarwater選手が前日夕方の予選より決勝タイムを落としてしまったことなどが書かれています。
Ann Arbor Newsの記事によるとKaitlin Sandeno 選手はいつもより熱いシャワーを浴び、オートミールを食べて、重ね着をして体温を上げているとのこと。
Phelps選手は木曜日の夜にPistonsのゲームを見ているうちに寝てしまい、金曜日の朝は目覚ましが鳴る前に起きたとのことで、「普段の午前中よりしっかり体が動く。この大会は午前中に速く泳ぐ経験をすることができる良いチャンスを与えてくれている。」とコメントしています。
Detroit Free Pressの記事
Swimmers adjust to early-morning finals
May 18, 2007
Michael Phelps woke up at 6 a.m. Friday and did something unusual. He drank a cup of coffee.
When Kaitlin Sandeno got out of bed, she put on a cap and her Ugg boots in an attempt to raise her body temperature. On the way to the pool, she cranked up the music in her car.
Katie Hoff said she went for a “wake-up swim” at 5:30 in the morning.
For many of the swimmers who qualified out of their preliminaries Thursday night and advanced to Friday morning’s finals at the Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix, gearing up for their races proved to be a little harder than they thought.
The results showed that some adjusted better than others.
The four-day meet at Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor is the first event of the season in the United States to mimic the time format that will be used at the 2008 Beijing Olympics: preliminaries in the evening, finals in the morning.
The meet’s first day official concluded Friday morning with Michael Phelps and Kaitlin Sandeno of Club Wolverine leading the way with each posting victories in two individual events.
Phelps, eight-time 2004 Athens Olympic medalist, won the men’s 400-meter freestyle and 200 individual medley, while Sandeno continued her comeback with victories in the women’s 400 free and women’s 200 IM.
She said she followed Club Wolverine coach Bob Bowman’s guidelines to adjust to the time change, including taking her warm-up more seriously.
“Not that I slack, but I kind of (usually) just goof around with warm ups,” said Sandeno, three-time 2004 Olympic medalist who moved a year ago to Ann Arbor to train. “But today I really tried to do everything Bob said. I’m a little bit more mature now and I know I can’t get away with stuff I used to when I was 17 or 18 years old. I’m just trying to get prepared for 2008 and hopefully I’ll be in Beijing. This is the way we’re doing it, so start early and play around with it.”
Sandeno also anchored Club Wolverine’s A team to victory in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay.
In his first meet since winning seven gold medals at the World Swimming Championships last month in Melbourne, Australia, Phelps said he fell asleep watching the Pistons’ game Thursday night and, for the first time in a while, woke up before his alarm went off Friday morning.
“I was much more awake than I normally am in the morning,” Phelps said. “This event is really going to give us a good chance to be able to experience having to swim fast in the morning.”
Phelps’ time in winning the 400 free (3:55.33) was more than three seconds faster than his prelim time Thursday night (3:58.64). His time improved even more in the 200 IM — 2:02.46 on Friday morning compared to 2:06.95 in posting the top prelim time Thursday night.
But not all the athletes went faster. Ryan Lochte’s time in taking fourth in the 200IM final (2:07.67) was slower than his prelim (2:07.61). Davis Tarwater was nearly three seconds slower in the finals of 400 free than he was in his prelim. He was seventh.
Sandeno was one of two swimmers in the women’s 400-free final to beat her prelim time.
Asked if he was able to ascertain much information out of Friday’s morning finals, Bowman said: “Not too much yet. It shows that a lot of people were not ready to swim – they didn’t get significantly faster. Some people did. It seems like the very top swimmers (did), but I think we have to get everybody a little more excited about being more aggressive in the morning.”
In other finals results: Vanessa Garcia won the women’s 50 free in 25.93 seconds. Eastern Michigan’s Derrick Roe, who joined Club Wolverine three weeks ago, won the men’s 50 free in 23.52. Club Wolverine’s B team in the 4x100-free relay (anchored by Peter Vanderkaay) defeated Club Wolverine’s A team (anchored by Phelps).
The meet continues later today with prelims in six events.
Ann Arbor Newsの記事
Adjusting to different routines
Swimmers alter their schedules to prepare for Beijing in 2008
Routines went by the wayside for some of the world's best swimmers Friday morning.
Kaitlin Sandeno awoke at 6 a.m. without an alarm, "which is really weird for me.'' Same with Michael Phelps, the world record-holder in four individual events.
"I haven't woken up before the alarm in a long time,'' he said.
Phelps, who abstains from coffee in the morning, had a cup before heading to Canham Natatorium from his Ann Arbor condominium. Sandeno took an extra-hot shower, ate a bowl of oatmeal and piled on the clothes to help raise her body temperature to the point it normally reaches later in the day.
At Canham, Sandeno warmed up with unusual vigor, the better to prepare for her 400-meter freestyle and 200 individual medley championship races at the Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix.
Instead of being slotted for afternoon or evening, the finals at the Namesnik event - which continues through Sunday - are being contested in the morning.
"We're all there yawning with our coffee and our bagels, trying to get ready,'' Sandeno said. "Mentally, when I come into the finals, I want to be feisty, really fired up, really pumped up.''
Although Sandeno admitted it was a bit of a chore altering her normal race schedule, she approached the change matter-of-factly.
"Hopefully, I'll be in Beijing, and this is the way we're doing it (there),'' Sandeno said.
Beijing, the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics, will also feature the flip-flopped racing - preliminaries late in the day, finals early - to accommodate the wishes of television network NBC, which will provide live prime-time championship swimming coverage to audiences in the United States.
If Friday's results are any indicator, Sandeno adapted well to the change. The two-time Olympian won both her individual races, then anchored the first-place 400-freestyle relay. Phelps, too, appeared to have little difficulty with the new schedule.
Less than 48 hours after returning to Michigan from an intense three-week training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., Phelps took first in his individual races, the 400 freestyle and the 200 IM.
"I didn't have any trouble getting up and going for it,'' Phelps said. "... As a whole, I think it was a good experience for us to have this because it's something that's completely different than what we're used to.''
In the third individual event final contested Friday, the 50 freestyle, Vanessa Garcia from Team Puerto Rico won the women's race. Club Wolverine's Derrick Roe, an Eastern Michigan student, won the men's sprint.
More travel on the way
Despite travels in recent months to Australia for the World Championships, to China and to Colorado, Phelps won't stay put in Ann Arbor long. In June, he and several other Club Wolverine members are scheduled to fly to Europe for the Mare Nostrum swim tour that will make stops in the French city of Canet, Barcelona and Monaco.
"There's a group of us heading over there,'' Phelps said. "Traveling around Europe a little bit and swimming a little bit.''
Kelly impresses
Pioneer High School graduate Margaret Kelly, who just completed her freshman year at Michigan, made a positive impression Friday, finishing second to Sandeno in the 200 IM and placing fourth in 50 freestyle. She set personal bests in both events.
"We've been training so hard, I really didn't expect to go those times,'' said Kelly, who also contributed to Club Wolverine's 400 freestyle relay, swimming lead off.
Future Wolverine
Daniel Madwed, 18, who attended high school for three years in Stamford, Conn., transferred as a senior to a school in Towson, Md. where he will take his last final exam Monday.
"I wasn't getting what I needed from my old team, so I decided to pack up and move,'' said Madwed, who is living with his grandparents in Towson and swimming with the North Baltimore Aquatic Club.
Madwed will remain with the club - where Phelps got his start under current Michigan men's coach Bob Bowman - through the Olympics. After that, Madwed plans to move to Ann Arbor and begin classes at Michigan.
Madwed said he believes he can make the U.S. Olympic squad in 2008, perhaps in his top event, the 200 butterfly. The final for that event at
the Namesnik Grand Prix will be held Sunday. Madwed placed fourth in Friday's 400 freestyle.
John Heuser can be reached
at jheuser@annarbornews.com or 734-994-6816.
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