Mens' 10K swim

amiine - 2008-08-20 6:44 PM someone should pass the British! he is just adding like another 1K to the swim swimming zigzag... maybe that's his strategy

wow, he's back in first, I missed that pass

I missed last night, is white on the left, yellow right, that sort of thing, on each loop?

Davies skipped another feeding, I don't think he's taken anything, nor the Greek.

Guess the energy savings from drafting is worth the extra yardage.  the greek tried to get away but either gave up or got caught

Alright - I am officially impressed.

Makes my 3350 at Masters this morning look like a warmup... 

I got in at about the 35 min mark - any idea as to what the finish time is likely to be?

NM - commentator has got my back :P

"The first Olympic swimming events in 1896 were held outdoors in the open waters of the Bay of Zea. Swimmers took to the choppy water in 55-degree weather and followed a course marked by a series of hollowed-out pumpkins. Open-water swimming will return to the Olympics in Beijing with the 10,000m marathon event."

From the "Trivia" tab - the pumpkin line makes me giggle. 

The feeding is absolutely fascinating...

and hurst has not been mentioned in the lead pack 

• Ky is in the Australian Lifesaver Hall of Fame
• another experienced competitor, Ky Hurst, is moving into the perfect position

I didn't get to see the finish was it close?  

congrats Ky I still think you are awesome with an 8th spot.  and totally hot!  to go from Beach Ironman superstar to compete at the olympics is cool in my books!

G	17		van der WEIJDEN Maarten	1:51:51.6
						S	10		DAVIES David	1:51:53.1	+1.50
B	6		LURZ Thomas	1:51:53.6	+2.00
						4	3		CLERI Valerio	1:52:07.5	+15.90
5	14		DRATTSEV Evgeny	1:52:08.9	+17.30
						6	21		STOYCHEV Petar	1:52:09.1	+17.50
7	8		RYCKEMAN Brian	1:52:10.7	+19.10
						8	18		WARKENTIN Mark	1:52:13.0	+21.40
9	5		HO Chad	1:52:13.1	+21.50
						10	9		Leon MALDONADO SAVERA Erwin	1:52:13.6	+22.00
11	23		HURST Ky	1:52:13.7	+22.10
						12	4		CHERVYNSKIY Igor	1:52:14.7	+23.10
13	2		Jose HERVAS Francisco	1:52:16.5	+24.90
						14	1		CARMO Allan	1:52:16.6	+25.00
15	24		RONDY Gilles	1:52:16.7	+25.10
						16	25		GIANNIOTIS Spyridon	1:52:20.4	+28.80
17	19		VITEK Rostislav	1:52:41.8	+50.20
						18	22		ESCOBAR Luis	1:53:47.9	+1:56.30
19	11		MOHAMMAD Saleh	1:54:37.7	+2:46.10
						20	13		MONIR Mohamed	1:55:17.0	+3:25.40
21	15		BLAUM Damian	1:55:48.6	+3:57.00
						22	12		LAVRENTYEV Arseniy	2:03:39.6	+11:48.00
23	7		Tong XIN	2:09:13.4	+17:21.80
							16		GERCSAK Csaba	DNF
	20		DYATCHIN Vladimir	1:52:13.7 DSQ	+22.10

Edit - whoa.... formatting is all off, but you can still follow gold, silver, bronze andthen the placings

Davies took off with about 1K to go (after leading most of the race), got a couple body lengths, the Dane came up and caught the draft, then Davies went way left (he had been weaving all day long, if he could learn to swim straight he definitely would have won).  Dane went straight to the timing mat.  Davies came back and almost caught him, but fell 1.5 seconds short.