2000 | Brooke Bennett | USA Olympic Gold | 4.05.80 | 400m Freestyle | Sydney Olympic Games

[novamist]

I can't believe this was almost ten years ago.

[SamBond]

Atkinson is my swim coach at Wright State

[juandi2570]

Kool down man, yes, Evans has been the greatest long distance swimmer ever. No question about it. Brooke is one of the best ever but not close to The great Janet Evans.

[juandi2570]

and you must be Evan's dad hahhahahaa, lol.

[mc1703]

to put this into some context, adlington went through the first 400m of her WR 800m swim in 4:05:72.

if bennett and fourth placer atkinson were swimming a 2*400m relay, they would have finished 0.41 seconds behind adlington!!!

[juandi2570]

yeah but Benneth didn't have a LZR in 2000. Make No mistake a about it, Benneth could've been the best long distance swimmer of all time if she hadn't had his shoulder problems. She was forced to retire at age 200 and had two or three surgeries. at the time she retired, everybody thought she was gonna be better than the mythic Janet Evans.

[juandi2570]

I meant to say Benneth retired at age 20 not 200 hahahaha.