Talk:Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

POV section (Morning Finals)
"This is unprecedented in swimming, as finals are always are swam at dusk or night and any change would mean a drastic change of habits for athletes who have been racing at night their whole lives. Response to the announcement from athletes has so far been mixed. While racing in the morning would mean a new strategy, the decision allows athletes almost two years to adapt to the new schedule, and all swimmers would be affected equally. Australia, home to many of the world's best swimmers, is unhappy with the decision by the IOC, as it would have a negative effect on viewing figures both in Europe and Australia, and claims that sporting schedules shouldn't be the decision of a broadcasting network."

This needs citing as, to me as someone who knows just about nothing about Olympic swimming, it fails to explain the significance of a change and who (other than the editors involved) thinks this is a "drastic" move. Regards, SeveroTC 17:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: Morning finals are/were not "unprecedented": they are a fairly common occurance in Brazil, and possibly South America as a whole and in other places as well. It was the first time for their use in the Olympics, however. Hooperswim (talk) 13:49, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

US and Aussie Olympic Trials
I do not believe this is the proper place for this information. While the US and Aussie swim teams win a large sum of medals, I don't think the trials for individual countries should be included here. I think this sets a standard that any national trials can be discussed here. Image this page having about 150 to 200 Olympic Trials sections. I think this content should be removed and placed in different sections (if not already existing). RonSigPi (talk) 05:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm certain that they will be seperated in the near future (especially for Australia since they are coming very soon).72.241.2.141 (talk) 05:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Aussie Section
Now we have an Aussie section for qualifiers. Again, doing this for every country would make this page a disaster (in my opinion). While I know qualifiers are shown for many sports, in Athletics which is another time sport, just standards are shown. I would suggest adding two different link systems. A first link to 'Olympic trials' that can have links to pages for the events of different countries. The time standards can link to event pages for the 2008 Olympics that have qualifiers for each event. This way people can see qualifiers by event. If someone has an objection or a better system, then please speak up. I just think the way this page is going it going to become very messy very quick. Unless provided a reason otherwise, I will make these changes in about the next 72 hours. RonSigPi (talk) 14:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
I've found this: Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and think it should be merged/moved with this page and the event pages (Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 kilometre and Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 kilometre) as linked from. Any thoughts/volunteers? Yboy83 (talk) 08:50, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Swimming records
Should we add any icons or letters into swimming tables to show the athlete has reached a national/continent/olympic/world record? I think it would be useful adding something like:

(W)

to announce a new world record.

Please tell your opinion. Znamkar (talk) 20:28, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Medal Table
I've updated the Medal Table to mirror the one here. I couldn't really get the citation in a good place, so if someone could fix that (or anything else)... :) --QuicksilverJohny (talk) 05:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedo Technology
Would it be relevant to include a section looking at the swimming suit tech that's now being used? How much has Phelps's outstanding performance been assisted by the Razor suit? I'm certainly not saying his success is only due to Speedo's innovation, but it must have helped! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZR_Racer Hey, just seen this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/can_anyone_spoil_phelps_pool_p.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.46.101 (talk) 15:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

What do the abbrevs mean?
Where is the key to the abbrevs that follow some of the times, eg, AS, AM, OC, ER? I have no idea what these mean. Nurg (talk) 04:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This abbreviations were pulled directly from the meet results, and signify the type of record broken. Marked records are World Record (WR), Olympic Record (OR), and then Continental Records: Asia (AS), Africa (AF), Americas (AM), Europe (ER), and Oceania (OC).Hooperswim (talk) 21:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)