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Commentary by Casey Barrett From<\/em> Caps and Goggles<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Katie\u2019s the best ever and Michael\u2019s at his best since Beijing\u2026 while a slew of questions remain for the rest of Team USA\u2026<\/p>\n

Adjectives fail us. Her times are too much to comprehend. After the Worlds in Kazan, Katie Ledecky is\u00a0the<\/em> Olympic story for next year\u2019s lead up to Rio. 8:07 in the 800. 15:25 in the mile. Gold across the board, from 200 to 1500. I grew up in the generation of Janet Evans, when her times were in a different stratosphere. Katie\u2019s made Janet\u2019s old unreachable standards look quaint. Nate Silver\u2019s always brilliant\u00a0538 blog<\/a> posted a collection of charts and analysis<\/a> that helps put Ledecky\u2019s swims into context. Though, when you watch her, nothing really can. All respect to Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey, but right now Katie Ledecky is the most dominant female athlete on earth.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s Michael the GOAT, seated comfortably back on his watery throne. There\u2019s been\u00a0some\u00a0criticism of Phelps<\/a> on these pages in the past. Hopefully fair and warranted, but some of it harsh nonetheless. Now some heartfelt praise where it\u2019s due: Phelps\u2019s performance at the U.S. Nationals in San Antonio last week was astonishing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll call it his third best meet ever \u2013 after the 2007 World Champs in Melbourne and the bounty of Beijing in 2008. This from a guy who\u2019s been competing on the world stage for over half his life, since the 2000 Games in Sydney when young Michael was 15. Based on times alone, his 2009 campaign was pretty impressive too. Indeed, his butterfly world records still stand from those \u2018o9 Worlds in Rome. But those were done wearing the silly super suits. I think Bob Bowman and Phelps would both agree that his 50.4 and 1:52.9 in the fly last week were both better swims than his 49.8 and 1:51.5 in Rome.<\/p>\n

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Though for all the awe that these times inspire, USA Swimming\u2019s reigning queen and king are leading by doing something else more noteworthy: They\u2019re both putting in the work. The legend of Katie Ledecky extends beyond the records and the podiums, it points to her daily workouts \u2013 where she makes it a habit of thrashing the guys (some of whom are Olympians themselves) and posting practice times that few humans, male or female, have ever approached. That\u2019s always been Katie\u2019s m.o., and it used to be Michael\u2019s too. But at some point over the last seven years or so, Phelps started to coast. He was already coasting in 2009 in Rome, but by then his base was so great, his confidence so impenetrable, that he remained unbeatable. The coasting \u2013 not to mention the less than healthy extracurriculars \u2013 began to catch up to him. Only Phelps could win six medals, four gold, at one Games and seem like he was underachieving, but that\u2019s exactly what happened in London.<\/p>\n

Then there came the retirement, the lost way, the comeback \u2013 at first still coasting \u2013 and then that life-shaking DUI last September. He could have drifted away after that, his legacy as the all-time greatest long secured. He could have hired a full-time driver and continued partying and gambling and generally living the reckless carefree life lived by countless retired professional athletes. Instead, he got his s#!t\u00a0together and he went back to work. Doing real work, the kind that breaks you down and results in slow mid-season times and plenty of doubt. The kind that prepares you for breakthroughs when you rest and step up when it counts. The kind of work that paid off for him last week at Nationals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of work that has been missing from too many top American swimmers for too long. After the World Champs got off to a troubling start for Team USA, alarms were sounding all over pool decks across the country. Ledecky aside, something was clearly very wrong with the Americans in Russia. The New York Times called the team\u2019s performance \u201clistless.\u201d I\u2019ll called it lacking confidence. That\u2019s always been the secret sauce for Team USA. They believe in their greatness, their own inevitable success, even when there\u2019s little objective reason to. Perhaps it\u2019s a clueless kind of arrogance, but it works. It\u2019s based on all the past success that their countrymen and women have achieved in the pool, through all the decades. And it\u2019s also based on something else \u2013 swimming in America has always been about putting in the work. There may be many paths to success, a million different ways to train, but there are no shortcuts. If you want to do nothing but quality work, always stay fresh, never have a tired in-season meet, go right ahead. You might be able to fool yourself for quite awhile. You might even be able to fool an entire short course yards career out of it. But you can\u2019t fool yourself forever if your goal is world class long course swimming.<\/p>\n

There was something missing from many Americans in Kazan, and it was that unshakeable confidence. The kind that comes from putting in the work, and knowing it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This blog started four years ago with a piece entitled The Phelps Effect<\/a>. Following the 2011 World Champs in Shanghai, it led with this question: Is the cupboard bare for Team USA?<\/em>\u00a0Back then I tried to outline that, aside from Phelps and Lochte, the Americans just weren\u2019t very good overall at the moment and that there was something missing beyond the superstar surface. Needless to say, Team USA answered that challenge in London with a resounding total team success. Yet here we are four years later and the same questions remain. Phelps and Lochte remain the faces of the franchise for the men. While Katie Ledecky is currently the only American woman in 2015 with a number one world ranking and an individual world title to her name.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll be better in Rio. There\u2019s little doubt of that. And this isn\u2019t to say that there aren\u2019t scores of swimmers out there doing insane work and paying the prices that must be paid. There have also been major breakthroughs by monster talents just beginning to come into their own. Witness Ryan Murphy\u2019s 52.1 in the 100 back, leading off that mixed medley relay. Witness Caleb Dressel\u2019s 21.5 in the 50 at Nationals \u2013 at age 18. Check out Katie Meili\u2019s 1:05.6 in the 100 breast at Pan Ams in Toronto.\u00a0Or the fact that six of the top twelve 2oo IMer\u2019s on earth are American women.<\/p>\n

No one despaired four years ago in the lead up to London, and few should be shaken now. However, with Michael now in his 30s and back on the prosperous path, the Phelps Effect remains.<\/p>\n

As for Ledecky, Serena and Ms. Rousey should be paying their respects.<\/p>\n

The above commentary is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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