Tuesday, August 17, 2004
OLYMPIC UPDATE -- DANA KIRK
Once again, I'll put up a bunch of blank lines and you can hit page down a couple times to scroll past if you don't want to know how Dana Kirk fared in her 200m butterfly preliminary race just after 12:30am.
As far as I flipped on the dial, this one wasn't carried live. There were four heats with right swimmers each (32 total). Dana Kirk logged a time of 2:11.96 and finished third in her heat. Her time was 12th out of the 32 swimmers. Seeing as to how there's two semifinal heats left, and assuming there's eight spots in each of those heats, Dana makes the cut and will move on to the semifinal race. Media outlets have pegged Dana as a longshot to medal, and with world recordholder Otylia Jedrzejczak (Polish, I bet you anything that's three syllables) and Kaitlin Sandeno (USA) in the field, yeah, it'd be tough. Dana's time was about 2.3 seconds behind that of the Polish swimmer with the probably trysyllabic last name. My bet on the name is (phonetically, and knowing very little of the Polish language beyond Krzyzewski) YED-ray-zhak.
But hey, Dana's got two years left at Stanford, she's an Olympic semifinalist so far, and she's not done making waves, so to speak. Horrible pun, I know.
So, to cap it off, the women's 200m butterfly semifinal heats are at 9:56am and 10:02am Pacific time. If you're lucky enough to get the CBC where you're at, it's your best bet for live coverage. If not, wait for NBC or one of their family of networks. From Jeremy's experience, he's been able to get the right NBC program guides and peg the showings of the heats within a half-hour.
As far as I flipped on the dial, this one wasn't carried live. There were four heats with right swimmers each (32 total). Dana Kirk logged a time of 2:11.96 and finished third in her heat. Her time was 12th out of the 32 swimmers. Seeing as to how there's two semifinal heats left, and assuming there's eight spots in each of those heats, Dana makes the cut and will move on to the semifinal race. Media outlets have pegged Dana as a longshot to medal, and with world recordholder Otylia Jedrzejczak (Polish, I bet you anything that's three syllables) and Kaitlin Sandeno (USA) in the field, yeah, it'd be tough. Dana's time was about 2.3 seconds behind that of the Polish swimmer with the probably trysyllabic last name. My bet on the name is (phonetically, and knowing very little of the Polish language beyond Krzyzewski) YED-ray-zhak.
But hey, Dana's got two years left at Stanford, she's an Olympic semifinalist so far, and she's not done making waves, so to speak. Horrible pun, I know.
So, to cap it off, the women's 200m butterfly semifinal heats are at 9:56am and 10:02am Pacific time. If you're lucky enough to get the CBC where you're at, it's your best bet for live coverage. If not, wait for NBC or one of their family of networks. From Jeremy's experience, he's been able to get the right NBC program guides and peg the showings of the heats within a half-hour.
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