Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps - 200 IM World Record 2011

Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps battle out the 200 IM at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai. Lochte breaks the first Post-2009 Long Course World Record in a textile suit. Phelps finishes only 16 one-hundredths behind. Podium performances in this event are the same three men as Beijing.

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[237Michael]

The mute button was very useful on this video.

[TheBradleyC4]

@cduchene22

Ok, let's be fair here. No, the suit is not everything. You are correct that the swimmers that set the records in the suit were still very talented and skilled. However, I wouldn't say suits mean nothing. The records are still beatable, as was demonstrated in dubai and Shanghai last year, but it has become much more difficult without the suits. Rome: 15 World Records for Men, 13 World Records for Women.(That's not counting multiple breaks in one event) Shanghai 2 for Men 0 for Women

[vasgeorge]

@237Michael the song is awesome you idiot...

[Justk4]

Make video viewable to ipod

[1sushicheese1]

@237Michael are you stupid? This is one of the greatest songs of all time.... I dont even like rap/hip hop .....

[TheBradleyC4]

@wlgoldsmith By the way, it's nice to see other age group swimmers take an interest in the mechanics of swimming, haha. I'm 16, I swim backstroke mainly, out of the Cascade Swim Club in Calgary, Alberta.

[TheBradleyC4]

@wlgoldsmith Where you talk about the mental impact of wearing the suits, you are correct in that it makes a difference, however at competitions such as world championships and olympics, swimmers are going to feel fired up and confident regardless of their suits. Do you really think when Michael Phelps broke the 200 free record in beijing in his Lzr, that he was not as pumped up as Biedermann going into Rome? The mentality caused by suits is more impactful in age group swimming, in my opinion.

[TheBradleyC4]

@wlgoldsmith Interesting. See, like I said I agree the swimmers who broke those world records were very impressive athletes, but what I stress is that the new suits keep them from being able to claim they are best swimmers in history. The friction reduction alone might make for a 2-hundredth difference, but when you look at core compression and flotation, the body suits help alot more than 2-hundredths.

[wlgoldsmith]

@TheBradleyC4 I agree. I swim, but I'm 14. If I go put on a full-body I'm not going to swim a world record time. These swimmers still put an amazing and almost surreal amount of effort into what they do. The suit might, and I stretch the might, take off 2 hundredths. More than anything it's mental. You put on the suit and you feel fast so you swim fast. It isn't quite that simple, but that's the general idea.

[splitkostanjeuma]

@splitkostanjeuma i know he swam in a full suit but that suit was really bad(compared to the suits of today)so i don't think hackett had any advantage over sun yang

however i believe that sun still has a lot of potential espetially after his 3:40.29 in the 400m(that's my fav even hehe) so i'm actually looking forward to the 400 in london more than the 1500

[TheBradleyC4]

@splitkostanjeuma You are correct, in that it was not a "suit" record, but Hackett still swam in a full body suit. I respect Yang's record greatly, and obviously Hackett's, because it withstood the polyurethane era. Especially after that 800 freestyle smash in Rome, it was surprising that 1500 record stood at the end of the meet. Link to his record (Underwater view only, sorry) /watch?v=wn-rxOpYujU You can see he's in a full body.