2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
There’s nonetheless sooner or later left to take part in SwimSwam’s 2024 U.S. Olympic trials Decide’em contest, however we’ve already obtained 610 responses and counting. On this article, we check out among the notable tendencies coming from the picks.
The most important favourite within the Decide’ems was surprisingly not Katie Ledecky within the distance freestyle occasions, however Bobby Finke within the males’s 800 freestyle. He obtained 604 of 606 first-place votes within the occasion, or 99.7% of the entire vote. Different lopsided occasion winner picks included Ledecky within the 400 (98.9%), 800 (99.5%) and 1500 free (99.3%) Finke within the 1500 free (99.3%), Regan Smith within the girls’s 200 fly (98.3%) and 200 again (97.9%) and Katie Grimes within the girls’s 400 IM (97.9%).
The bottom seed to be favored in an occasion is Caeleb Dressel, who’s seeded fifth within the males’s 50 free however was picked by 60.9% of responders to win the occasion. He was additionally picked by 75.5% to win the 100 fly as a 3rd seed, however was *not* the favourite within the 100 free — that title belongs to top-seeded Jack Alexy, whom 58.7% picked to win the occasion. Nevertheless, Dressel did get 24% of the first-place votes there, the second-most out of any swimmer. He was additionally the favourite to seize the second particular person spot.
The 2 different occasions the place the highest seed wasn’t the favourite to win have been the lads’s 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 free. Within the 200 fly, second-seeded Carson Foster acquired nearly all of the votes over Thomas Heilman, who has a quicker finest time than Foster and completed in a better place than him on the 2023 World Championships. Foster was additionally picked by 75.9% of voters to get first within the 200 IM over Shaine Casas. Within the 400 free, second seed and reigning Olympic bronze medalist Kieran Smith acquired extra first-place votes than high seed David Johnston.
Although Lilly King has been America’s high breaststroker since 2016 (except 2021, when Lydia Jacoby received Olympic gold), voters don’t appear to be tremendous assured in her profitable the 100 breast. She solely acquired 62.3% of all first-place votes within the 100 breast, the second-lowest share out of all favorites in girls’s occasions. The bottom share of first-place voters for a favourite in a girls’s occasion got here within the 50 free, the place 54.2% of individuals picked Kate Douglass to win. Nevertheless, it’s truthful to imagine that outcome stems partially from skepticism over her really swimming the race.
Among the most wide-open Olympic spots embody the second particular person spots within the girls’s 100 again, girls’s 200 fly and males’s 800 free. The vote is break up virtually useless even between Katharine Berkoff and Claire Curzan for the second within the 100 again, with Berkoff barely edging out Curzan in votes. In the meantime, it’s Alex Shackell who acquired a lot of the second place votes (45.9%) within the 200 fly. Many citizens have faith in Johnson to make Paris within the 800 free, as he acquired 60.6% 0f all-second place votes.
The 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming trials will run from June 15 to 24 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Following alongside right here at SwimSwam for all protection associated to the meet.
