This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss Summer McIntosh‘s potential lineup for the 2024 Canadian Olympic Trials, a high school swim team getting locked out of their section meet, and the major moves that have happened so far in the NCAA off-season.
- 0:00 Summer McIntosh‘s Canadian Trials Lineup
- 5:56 Acalanes High School Entry Fiasco
- 13:08 NCAA Shuffle
SINK or SWIM
- 25:53 Should the crossover turn be replaced by a backstroke flipturn in IM events?
- 30:01 Will someone go under 3:40 in the Men’s 400 Free in Paris?
Summer’s lineup is out She is swimming those 5 events plus the 100 and 200 free. She has 1 event per day at trials. Probably preparing for a loaded Olympic lineup whether she swims the 200 free or not.
Where’d you see that?
It’s on SplashMe an app mostly used in Quebec and at the TPASC pool apparently. It’s probably gonna be on SwimRankings live soon.
wonder how much is she gonna taper for trials
Kate and Kaylee better have the race of their lives against Summer, or one or both may not make the podium.
Not a chance both not making podium.
I think she should leave the 100 back alone. She’s got zero chance against Kaylee. If they all turn up for the final of the 200im it will be a great race.
she isnt getting on the podium in paris in the 100 back. Definitely can make the final. Prove me wrong.
Summer just continue to getterdone and have fun
Summer’s line-up: Chasing after every rabbit almost always ends up in you catching far fewer than a more targetted approach would net and if this IS going to be her schedule for Paris (with the additions of the 2 free relay finals); then it’s clear they’ve taken the route of which events offer the best gold chances. No criticisms from this corner.
Flipturns for IM: Swim it
Sub 3.40 M400FR in Paris: Most certainly COULD but, am tending to side with Coleman, in thinking it’s no done deal and it will all hinge on how they race it. Ask me for a more firmer Y/N closer to the event when we have ALL the Trials held and have seen if… Read more »
Coleman seems to have overlooked that Thorpe went a WR (3:40.59) in the Olympic final in 2000.
Coleman was probably not born yet
Yeah, but that example kind of proves the point. Coleman’s point was that in the Olympic final it tends to be a tactical race. I think he’s right about that.
Thorpe was so far ahead of everyone that he didn’t have to worry about tactics. Second place was 3-4 seconds behind him and 3rd was 7 seconds behind.
While I did overlook this, my mind was more focused on the fact that he didn’t set what would end up being the WR for a long time at the OG, but at world champs the next year (I think?)
But also, there’s no Thorpe in this field as “Bignowhere” said. When you’re on an island whooping everyone’s patoot, it’s a lot easier to go fast. There’s a much greater chance that no one will be swimming ‘freely’ in that final but rather very tactically, netting in not best times. Is my theory.
Commonwealth Games ’02
I agree that the Olympic final is tactical race about touching first and not necessarily about that going all out guns blazing in the hopes you can hold on for the win. However, I think recency bias of the Tokyo final being so slow has skewed how we view this event at the Olympics.
Thorpe in 2000, Park, Sun, Horton and Hafnoui all went their then PBs in the Olympic finals to win. With Martens, Short and Hafnoui all having now gone 3:40 we are in a situation where if any of them go a PB it could very well be a WR. Short had success last year attacking the first half of the race and both Winnington and Martens… Read more »
Also, there were 8 WRs total in Olympic finals in 2012. This is coming off the back of the suit era.
We’re coming off of a relatively slow Olympics in Tokyo, a WC where we saw 8 WC ex-mixed events. I think if it’s a fast meet , we could see 8-10 WR again in Paris. The 400free is as good of a candidate as any other race
I remember this call:
“You don’t listen what the so-called experts say. You just go out there and race and sometimes that’s the best strategy you can have at the Olympics. Just go out, feel it, and make it happen.”
“whooping everyone’s patoot”
Great title for a rap album.
Nocentini has resurfaced on Instagram after deleting her account for a few weeks. She has UVA ’24 on top, which might be indication she doesn’t plan to return
Why does that mean she’s not returning? She’s a class of 24 graduate, that doesn’t change if she takes a fifth year
There’s no way she’s graduating from UVA with an undergraduate degree this spring. Fairly certain she got her degree from NW
Does she have a route to competing in Paris? I didn’t see her on the 100breast list for Italy
If she wants to qualify it has to be in freestyle, I don’t believe there are spots left in breaststroke
She was too busy competing in the bathtub to make the Olympic team. Wrong priorities.
I mean, what else she could have done?
She has no chance to qualify for Olympics, better go back to bathtub which at least give her some glory.
The biggest swimming news in the last month outside of the scandal is McKeown and O’Callaghan’s insane times at nationals. But they’re not even mentioned.
A high school fiasco is clearly bigger news for world swimming. /s
It was so not mentioned that they almost forgot about Sam Short when discussing who could break the 400free world record in Paris
Didn’t they talk about it in another podcast? But maybe I’ve hallucinated that.