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SwimSwam Breakdown: 2022 US World Champ Trials – Women’s Preview

It is finally time! The US World Champ Trials start on April 26, and in preparation, we narrowed down our Top 5 most-anticipated events on the women’s side to bicker over for your viewing and listening pleasure. See list of events below:

  • 0:00 Women’s Preview Introduction
  • 0:25 200 Breast
  • 3:47 100 Free
  • 8:33 100 Fly
  • 12:57 200 IM
  • 14:04 100 Back
  • 17:10 SINK or SWIM – Veterans Making the Team

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snarky
2 years ago

“Berkoff is coming like a freight train.” True dat.

Ghost
2 years ago

No Margalis or Walsh in 4im

CanSwim13
2 years ago

Loretta, you good?

Hswimmer
Reply to  CanSwim13
2 years ago

Nevahhhh 😆😆😆🆑🆑🆑 4/20

Swammer2009
Reply to  CanSwim13
2 years ago

That was hard to watch…

snarky
Reply to  CanSwim13
2 years ago

Happy 4/20 Loretta!

Yozhik
2 years ago

It was a bright after Rio Olympic cycle. American women set four World records in swimming. Now we call all of them with slight correction on Reagan Smith veterans.
The new talented generations is coming now to the scene. Will be they same bright? Todays discussion of most anticipated events at trials on women side tells us that we are going to see the fiercest competition between each other but not between them and world standards.

Jess
2 years ago

Could see USA missing a medal in the 4×100. A weak AUS will still win, Canada 2nd and then honestly GB or Sweden could win Bronze.

With Hopes heat flat start split and any Hopkin takeover GB would have got silver and their team is looking just as strong as in 2021. Yet i don’t see any ‘guaranteed’ 52 splits in the USA, other than maybe Weitzel.

Netherlands probably also out of the mix but USA just seem to only have swimmers who are better at other events (Curzan + Huske) or unreliable 100 swimmers with no individual medal potential.

Emerson
Reply to  Jess
2 years ago

Ausrailia will basically be a no-show at WC; most of them are going to focus on Commonwealth games.

Joel
Reply to  Emerson
2 years ago

Let’s exaggerate for effect hey? A few swimmers ( maybe 6) are skipping Worlds.

Sub13
Reply to  Emerson
2 years ago

O’Callaghan, Wilson, Jack and Throssell are all going to worlds. The four of them swimming close to their best still would have won gold in Tokyo despite none of them being on the actual winning team.

Troyy
Reply to  Sub13
2 years ago

The fourth will be Harris.

Sub13
Reply to  Troyy
2 years ago

I know it will. I was making the point that even Australia’s B team, which includes no one in the final, could still have reasonably won the Olympics.

Taa
Reply to  Jess
2 years ago

Wait for the trials at least before declaring them a failure.

Steve Nolan
Reply to  Jess
2 years ago

Gonna go with – no.

It tends to always look like this, especially when other countries have their trials meets significantly earlier than the US. “Oh no, look at how fast they all went!! The US ain’t been that fast this year!”

Awsi Dooger
Reply to  Steve Nolan
2 years ago

Once the relay is underway the United States is always right there, no matter what it looks like while crunching the numbers

Sub13
Reply to  Awsi Dooger
2 years ago

That’s what the coaches said in the MMR…

Hswimmer
2 years ago

Can’t wait to see how wrong y’all are about 100 Free.

MCH
2 years ago

I think you guys are in for lots of surprises when psych sheets drop. Including swimmers who aren’t swimming at all – swammers.

olivy
2 years ago

I don’t think it’s a big problem for Douglass to swim 4 events at trials, since there are no semis there. But if she’s in 4 events in Budapest, that will be another story. Especially if she qualifies for 100 free and 100 fly, there will be a lot of relay duties too.

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