Swimming

After Water Polo, we made our way to the Water Cube for Swimming. We saw heats for 4 events, but no finals or semi-finals.

The first event we saw was the Women's 50 Meter Freestyle. Here is one heat preparing to start.

Here they are swimming. There were 2 great things about the 50 meter. First, it is a quick race, so you don't have to worry about getting bored. Keep reading for more on getting bored. Second, there were 12 heats with about 90 swimmers total so we got to see swimmers from all over the world swim.

The second event was the Men's 1500 Meter Freestyle. 1500 meters is 30 laps, and there were 5 heats. That is a total of 150 laps. This is where I got a little bored. It was a lot of back and forth across the pool. Back and forth and back and forth and... Here they are with 25 more laps to go.

The third event was the Women's 4X100 Medley Relay. Here the women are getting ready to start.

And here they are swimming.

And here they are passing off from one swimmer to the next.

The last event we saw was the Men's 4X100 Medley Relay. Here they are swimming.

And no, we did not see Michael Phelps swim. He swam in the 4X100 Medley Finals, but not in the heats. None of the US swimmers that swam in the heats, swam in the finals, but I hear that everyone that swam in the heats or the finals got a gold medal.