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Michele Smith

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    #32
    brucechan
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭brucechan


    well said, totally agree with you


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    #33
    Me.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Me.


    "you cannot take 20 sec of a 400m time in 12 months without the use of drugs and thats fact" Michelle didn't swim a serious 400m free until 1996. It is not right to compare those times. Just by looking at the time she swam in 1995 on the 100 free and the 400 Im you can conclude that 12 months before the Olympics she was capable of swimming a much faster 400 free. My guess is that she improved maybe 4 or 5 seconds and not 20 in that year. You should compare like with like. She didn't improve 20 seconds in the 400 IM in that year because she did swim that event at championships in 1995. You can compare those times. Very small improvements on that event from 1995 to 1996.


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    #34
    Indo404
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭Indo404


    Im not pro Evans or anti Smith but coming from a swimming bacground and being the same age as Michelle and coming up through the Irish ranks with her the times speak for themselves and you cannot take 20 sec of a 400m time in 12 months without the use of drugs and thats fact[/QUOTE]



    The 400 meter time in 1995 was a training swim for her Dutch club. You should compare like with like. She did not "improve" 20 seconds. Yes there is a difference of 20 seconds in those two times. Look at her time in the 400 IM in 1995 (4:42) and her time in 1996 (4:39). Same distance Those are two times you can compare. She was rested and tapered for both those meets.

    PS "She came out of nowhere" Where did MS finish two years before the Olympics in 1996 at the wold championships in Rome?


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