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Three-time Olympian Nathan Adrian will be representing Team USA this summer in both the 50 and the 100 freestyle after winning both those events at Trials. Adrian spoke with members of the press after his victory in the 50 free. You can watch the full video above, but here are a few highlights:
In winning the 50 free, Adrian touched out veterans Anthony Ervin, who finished 2nd and will also swim the event in Rio, and Cullen Jones, who missing making his third Olympic team. Asked about the dynamic he has with those two, Adrian replied:
The dynamics are great. Anthony and Cullen are the nicest, most genuine guys that I know. You would struggle to find anybody who has anything bad to say about those guys. It’s hard. Olympic Trials are — I guess I forget about it but how difficult it is to — because you want to see your friends do well, you know?
Adrian responded to a question about saying if there was an intentional plan to be faster in Rio than in Omaha by saying:
You know, that’s been the plan, but that’s not saying that things haven’t gone to plan before, right? But certainly the goal coming into this meet was to go some times that were good enough to make the team and still have a little left to go a little faster, and we looked at our races and we’ve kind of figured out the different avenues I think that we want to clean up and where we want to get faster. So, yeah, I would be — who wants to sit here and be like, “Well, that’s all I got! That’s it!”