Swimming - Women's 50M Freestyle Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

[bburlamaqui]

Britta? I thought her name was Beautiful Steffen. :-)

She's gorgeous!

[TheAnimalanimations]

They did it in 24 seconds, i am 13 and can do it in 30. i'm happy now! :)

[lightspeedvenom]

man i'm 16 and the best i can do is round 29 secs! kudos! (but only with 2 years of training as i was a tae kwon do athlete for 9 whole years!) really impressive

[giyonce83]

Dara Torres .......age is just a number....

[PurpleRox13]

Oh My God!!! All I have to do is get my time down 6 seconds to be in the olympics!!! Wow, that is a challenge I am so willing to take on.

[Energetika25]

IT IS not so easy!!!!!!! But keep going!

[p2p92]

hey me to ...i was just swimming in pools today...and saw that i was only 31 seconds which is pretty close

[PurpleRox13]

@p2p92 I'm usually somewhere around 30 to 33, it really depends on which pool I'm swimming in, did you know that in colder pools you have a better time because you don't get exhausted as fast? I bet the olympic pools are freezing!!

[p2p92]

oh really..noo my pool is extremely hot ....i start to sweat ....its to stifling in there...i usually counteract that by going in the spa which is warmer and than i jump straight into the pools which gives that cold feeling for a while but wares of ....but yeh ur rite ..not only does the pool temperature make a difference, but also the olympic swimming costumes are very tight to ur body and also are made of a material which attracts very less friction... did u know that

[PurpleRox13]

Oh wow, you should go to a colder pool. I bet your time would be so awesome if you did. Yes I did know that, I have a special bathing suit that I use only for competitions. Do you?

[p2p92]

nahh i dont have any ....i just have the plain swimware

[p2p92]

how old ru

[cogitacogito]

Britta Steffen.. ole!!

^_^

[safehaven11]

Dara Torres is amazing.

Steffen is amazing too and for Cate? She beat Trickett?

[amandaberesford]

that's not nice to talk about Dara Torres like that.

[Rectiony3]

shhe actually does oi

[paukelino]

No! Just you look like a pig! She doesn`t.

[safehaven11]

I'll forgive Campbell for that bronze in that team final.

[safehaven11]

Britta definitely brought her game.

[jonaloin]

dara torres lifted her head before she touched the wall. could that have resulted in a 'speed bump'? maybe she could have out-touched brita. but i'm happy brita won :)

[bibao24]

zera aí zera!

[bzach71]

Torres never did sub25 during her heydays back in late 80s and early 90s and now she's doing 24s. Magnificent. Kudos Steffen.

[Thunderwave1988]

no, her suit was from adidas and all the german swimmers said its rubbish. So adidas canceled the sponsoring to the german swimmers and now they can wear speedos suits.

[cargalpi]

was britta wearing the lzr racer?

[jesselovemimi]

from Torres we know that the age couldn't a problem for a swimmer I think Phelps will get 5-6gold medals at London so scary

[343596]

No you cant argue against proof cuz there are underwater pics showing britta won.

BTW she looks like a pig :P

[swimmerforever2008]

haha, i have to agree with that !:P "she looks like a pig !" haha

[Thunderwave1988]

But she looks better in casual clothing

[343596]

Ugliest swimmer there is.

[schusterlehrling]

lol.

unlike Phelps, who touced 2nd, but had the luck that the timer was not triggered where his opponent first touced the wall (the rukes, btw does NOT require triggering the timer, just touching the wall is enough! so phelps was declared by not applying the rules...), the submarine camera showed that Steffen touched first.

[PowerRobbe]

Britta Steffen is the best...... I love Germany