12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte looked a little rough at the recent San Antonia Pro Swim, swimming 2:02.03 in the 200m IM, but he always swims slowly in-season, and Caeleb Dressel swam slowly, and they’re both in Coach Gregg Troy‘s clutches. In sum, we know they’re doing hard work–certainly broken down at this point in their training cycle.
“If there was an 800 IM at the Olympics, I would be swimming it,” Ryan Lochte said in his last Gold Medal Minute back in October 2020. He also revealed his Olympic Trials schedule, which was the standard Lochte schedule we’ve always seen. He said, “At this point, with all of the work I’m doing? 400 and 200 IM, 200 back, 200 free, 100 fly…”
I’m still bullish on Lochte’s chances to make the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team this summer. Lochte has mastery in the 200 IM. He’s going to turn heads at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
PREDICTIONS
Lochte makes Team USA in the 200 IM, dropping a solid 1:55 low…barely edging Shaine Casas, Michael Andrew, Chase Kalisz and Andrew Seliskar. It’s going to be a tight race… Of course, you know I want everyone to make the Olympic Team. But who cares what i think? I want to know what you think. Give me your best swimming analysis.
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Good for Ryan Lochte for cleaning up his life,+ for maturing into a family man + pursing his olympic dreams again! Tenacity + hard work pay off.
Always the 800 free relay alternate…not sure of team membership caps per COVID.
Scott Jaffe, Brad Schumacher, and others…your medals are real.
Lochte knows this and has hope.
If the 200 IM was his only event and there were only two rounds maybe but if he is planning to swim several events I seriously doubt. He is definitely not going 155 low!
Maybe they can give him a US swmming cheerleading outfit with pom poms…but then again the Rio bathroom haunts the world’s memory, and covid risk and all that…maybe it’s better not then
Mark my words, Lochte will not make the team.
Exactly. Ryan is history.
Prediction: some no-name D3 swimmers uses the Lochtd in training app to gain 30lb of raw explosive muscle, swims a 1:55.54 to out-touch Lochte for the 2nd spot behind Foster
I think it is a clear shot for ryan and michael andrew to make the 1 and 2 spots
Michael Andrew and Ryan in the 2 im easy