Phelps goggles leaked!

With the force he jumps off the blocks and pushes off the wall I surprised they don't rip off his head.

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Well, personally I feel like we finally have something in common, since my goggles started leaking and filling with water during my mini-sprint this past weekend.

So far it's the ONLY time I've been able to look at the swimmers and say, "I know what that feels like!" 

So, Michael, call me - we'll have lots to talk about! 

Oh, sorry, I thought this was a thread about leaky goggles...

Seriously, there are other forums and threads on this site for these types of opinions to be stated.

Good on ya mate!

I have never been a competitive swimmer, but I understand they wear their goggles uber tight as well....

I thought they leaked on the 200 Fly.  that's why he looked mad after getting his 10th Gold.  People were saying he was upset about not going under 1:44, but he was just mad he couldn't see the whole time.

To the medal question:  Other swimmers have had the same opportunity to get multiple medals too.  So it's 'fair'.

I swear I saw him excessively messing with his goggles before one of his races and I remember thinking, "hurry up!  they are almost about to START!"

I wonder if that was the race in which they leaked.  Unfortunately I did not record the Olympics so I can't go back and check it out.  But it would make sense.  It looked like he was having a hard time getting them seated properly.\

Leaky goggles suck!

That's what I ALWAYS wondered about!  I can see fine underwater, and it doesn't bother me.  Only gets bothersome over time due to exposure to the chlorine.  I always thought that I would give them up for the 50 or 100.  In a couple of instances, I have gone without goggles for a workout in a crisis.  My eyes did protest after about 30 minutes (and for a while afterwards), but it wasn't that bad....

Glad I'm not the only one with the crazies....

Good on ya mate!

I have never been a competitive swimmer, but I understand they wear their goggles uber tight as well....

I won't harp on it, since it was unpopular to hijack the thread.  I didn't mean to other swimmers, and it wasn't a question of fairness.  It was a question of accolade.

I stand corrected, it was the 200 Fly. But get this:

 BEIJING (AP)...........Just look what he did Wednesday: In the span of an hour, he set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly -- even though a faulty pair of goggles filled with water during the race

 The guy even has the press blaming it on "faulty goggles"! 

It is a frustrating thing when your goggles fill with water on a start. I don't think it's a question of whether goggles are needed for races but more the fact that when you are used to seeing everything clearly and all of a sudden you can't. Not being able to focus on the walls and get your timining into the walls cost him a little time on each wall and not being able to see the guy who was almost even with him for 150 meters in lane 1 also cost him some time.

He said he was disappointed in the swim because he felt he could have gone faster. He is a phenomenal swimmer that busts his in every workout and is focused on the task at hand. That's one hell of a work ethic!

All well  and good, unless you wear contacts.  If your contact floats away, you're blind in murky water.....