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
- Finals Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5
Simone Manuel qualified for her 3rd Olympic Games tonight while Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh added to their event schedules in Paris. Manuel receives the most questions here, speaking on her journey from questioning her reason for swimming to making the Paris team.
Simone is an incredible ambassador for the sport and a class act. She’s an asset to the team both in and out of the water.
I’m just bummed that Claire Curzan is not still a 100 free swimmer with history of 53 lows individual and 52 high relay splits. I’m also bummed that Maxine Parker didn’t swim at or better than her trials time from last year. Both of them would’ve finished ahead of 6th place tonight with those times. Even more odd since they’re training with one of the best sprint coaches, if not THE best, for women in the entire country.
It’s a good relay but ain’t no way this group beating the Australia’s.
The US women’s 4×100 has as much chance of winning gold as the GB men’s 4×100 of winning gold.
The Aussie women & US men just too good.
My personal guess is that with the exception of the men’s 4× 100m freestyle relay winner becoming the United States, the other relay winners are exactly the same as Fukuoka
If there’s no upset, probably.
Yes that is a pretty good call.Really only the mixed Medley, with US really challenging China,
Mixed medley wins by USA ..Murphy Fink Walsh Douglas for the final while Armstrong Swanson Regan Huske / Regan Fallon Dressel Huske for the prelims they can assemble 3 teams which may Gold medal favourites
Yes, I agree. Men’s medley relay and mixed medley relay. China and the United States are very strong, who can finally win the championship depends on the field performance, the paper strength of the two sides is very small, of course, the mixed medley relay Australia is also very strong
Australia with kaylee Williamson Temple MOC also gold medal contention.
No Kate? Pat Forde said on twitter that Dressel didn’t attend the men’s 100 free press conference either
Pat just said none of the men ended up having an interview and it was possibly rescheduled for tomorrow
The press conference with Armstrong/Alexy/Guiliano was supposed to be tonight, but got rescheduled because tonight’s session ran too late, drug tests, etc.
Will dressel be there?
She was swimming the 200 Breast.
ah I thought they did these at the end of the night. But it makes more sense to do them throughout the session
Kate could not attend the conference because she had to swim in the 200m Breast semis shortly after this conference, so she was prepping for that event
Can someone explain about Gretchen Walsh.
It’s baffling.
A few days ago she pulverized 100 fly and consistently went sub 56 in all three rounds.
Earlier in the year she declared she’s going to break 100 free AR.
Everyone including Swimswam writers and myself all convinced she would swim at least 52 in 100 free and maybe faster in this trials.
But she never went under 53 in prelims, semis, and final.
She has no such discrepancy between her 100 fly and 100 free SCY records.
Going 55.18 in 100 fly and not able to go under 53 in 100 free seems head scratching.
So, what happened?
I think as someone has mentioned in a previous thread: her success in underwaters (i.e. fly kicks) translates to benefiting 100% of the race in fly (fly kicks are needed in fly) but only ~30% in free (assuming she gets to 15 m mark for both lengths). But in a short course race, there are more walls and therefore more underwaters in a freestyle race and she can benefit from those powerful fly kicks.
This sounds plausible and I can subscribe to this theory.
It is baffling and frustrating. I don’t mean to keep moving the goalpost, but I could see her setting it at team trials for world championships next year. Or at least duplicate KD’s mid 52s.
She’s said that Todd DeSorbo has told her she can break the record, but I’ve never heard her make that prediction herself.