2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
- June 15-23, 2024
- Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Session Start Times (ET):
- 11 a.m. Prelims
- 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam’s Definitive Guide to Trials
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- SwimSwam Pick ’em Contest
- Prelims Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
- Finals Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
There were five lanes left empty this morning in the heats of the men’s 100 butterfly: Shaine Casas (#2 seed), Arsenio Bustos (#12), Jonny Kulow (#13), Grant House (#29), and Will Modglin (#49). Of those five, four finalists in the 200 IM tonight. Kulow is the one exception, though he was the victim of a double swim-off in the 50 free last night.
It bears mentioning that the scratch deadline for prelims is an hour after the start of the night session, and the first semi of the 200 IM swam around 9:05pm ET last night. The session started at 8:00pm ET, which means it would have been impossible for these athletes make a decision based on their 200 IM performance.
Modglin’s placement in the 200 IM must have come as a surprise to him and his coaches; he came into the event seeded 27th, and had a big drop to place 17th after prelims. A scratch in the top-16 gave him a semis berth, and now he’ll swim in lane 8 tonight.
Hopefully this will end the complaints on why the late scratches.
Casas makes the strangest decisions.
Possibly the best decision of his career if he wins the 200Im which I expect he will.
Nah. For once I think he made the right call.
Kinda surprised with Casas. He is on paper a clear #2 here.
He could likely get through to semis without burning too many matches. And still be fresh for tonight.
I know he scratched before the Semis 2IM swim but thats still a tight event.
Paper hasn’t meant much for him (not trying to hate) so might make sense for him
He’s definitely more primed to upset the 200 IMers than the 100 flyers. On paper he’s been 50.4 but it’s been awhile.
It makes sense to pick 200IM or 100fly, cos final of 200IM is scheduled at 8.21 and semi of 100fly at 8.33
The IM final is before the fly semi, so he’d just be seeing what he has left for the latter. Does he really need to take the whole morning off just to save up for tonight? Especially when he could surely have cruised a 52 low this morning?
Maybe he does. He might not be a great morning performer and need the sleep.
Seems silly to have scratch deadline before session end
His finish time in the 2IM was after the deadline to scratch