Well good news luggage arrived, never been so thankful for clothes.
So yesterday we went for our first swim at the pool, which is located in the village. I'll speak more about the village experience in another blog. Back to the pool. While Nuna warms up, I observe all the nations here. What stands out is that USA Swimming does not stay in the village, they have a hotel. Very interesting to find out that this is the first time for a World Championships to have an athletes village, maybe hey should have told USA Swimming.
Well the best thing I saw, except for Nuna doing her 8x50's BR - looking good I may add, was the Chinese team and coach. During a packed and I mean 12-20 in a lane, Men & Women, not Boys and Girls. He spread out 4 swimmers, in 4 lanes, to race each other in a set of 150's. One was Sun Yang. They were going fast, swimming all around the other swimmers, turning fast, swimming in the middle of the lane, (Nathon Burwick would have loved that), to my surprise no one got upset. After each repeat, the coach barked some times, instructions etc. and then yelled jhehfjhxxjwx, well that's what it sounded like and off they went on another 150.
They were not going to let anyone dictate their warm up, which I think is a good lesson for our swimmers. The Chinese were not bullying or being disruptive, they simply had a job to do and no one was going to stop them.
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