Palmetto Proving Grounds

Actually, follow swimming quite a bit. My son was a swimmer in high school and a year round swimmer on a well recognized national swim club........Lochte will make this country proud before the games are over (already has with 1 gold metal).....This is the way swimming goes sometimes.....However, the media is the one doing most of this to Lochte....There very well may never be another Phelps......

No... It's the Olympics though. Thats when the great ones are supposed to rise to the occasion. Especially when you're handed a one second lead in ANYTHING. Even more so when you've been talking about how great you are for the last couple months. Don't even get me started on the basketball debate... To Kobe: "Michael Jordan at the PEAK OF HIS PRIME says hello." The way people repeatedly jump on unproven hype with everything now just continues to baffle me.

Actually, Australia was the pre-race favorite and should have won going away.....That is the way swimming goes especially in relay events..USA finished 2nd as most in the swimming world expected...

He still had nearly a one second lead handed to him after Phelps and Adrian did much better than expected and blew away the field. Pre-race expectations get thrown out the window at that point. If you're the man... you close the deal. Especially against France, not Australia. Riddle me this... Let's pretend the shoe were on the other foot and it was Phelps swimming the anchor leg after Lochte blew everyone away and handed him a one second lead over France... Where do you think the USA would've been standing on the medal podium after that scenerio? When I hear someone say "It's my time now" and you're competing with the greatest athlete of all time in your sport still racing... I'm going to have higher expectations for. Otherwise... you're just another sh@t talking Gator.

And I'm not saying any of this in dickish way either...just fyi...it is an interesting debate. But it is basically a 100 meter race Lochte is running. Would a 1 second head start in a 100 meter sprint race not be a huge lead? I know Lezak basically overcame that much in 2008, but everyone was talking about what a miraculous, unimaginable, rally it was after he swam the race of his life. Could've just as easily said France choked... and they did. It was even more gratifying because of the junk they'd been talking. That's the French way... Talking junk and not backing it up. The American way is to back it up in the pool...or else don't go around running your mouth... which is my point about Lochte. Now I know he didn't have a picture of Phelps hanging in his locker talking about how he was going to destroy him like Chad Johnson would've done back in the day... But its swimming. His cocky demeanor, and some of the subtley brash comments he was making, were the swimming equivalent of a Chad Johnson interview. Except Ocho normally backed it up in his prime. I'm sure he'll have a great olympics btw... But it won't be anything that a good-to-great swimmer hasn't accomplished before in the games.

What were the individual times for each swimmer?

Phelps 47.15
Lochte 47.74

Please add spoiler alert to the title. For the second straight night the race has been ruined for me. Maybe some other people that dont want to know will avoid this thread.

I don't follow it any of the 1460 days out of four years... 99.99999% could GAS. Yet we are supposed to care these two weeks? The Olympics are lame without the Cold War.

And no offense to crowclub or those that actually have a vested interest in olympic swimming.