With the Olympic 12 months in full drive, posts about World Information, Olympic qualifiers, and Soiled Doubles dominated the SwimSwam Instagram account (@swimswamnews) in 2024.
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10. Katie Ledecky, Aaron Shackell E-book Their Tickets to Paris (Day 1 Recap)
Its solely becoming that the opening submit on this listing additionally occurs to be the submit wrapping up the primary day of the 2024 US Olympic Trials, which noticed Katie Ledecky and Aaron Shackell qualify for the Olympics within the 400 freestyle.
9. Caeleb Dressel Leads 50 Freestyle at Trials (Day 7 Recap)
The ultimate day of the US Olympic Trials noticed Caeleb Dressel, Regan Smith, and Carson Foster add further occasions to their Olympic schedules.
8. Alex Shackell Successful Olympic Gold Earlier than Her Senior 12 months of Excessive College
Not many athletes can stroll into highschool with an Olympic medal round their neck, nevermind a gold one. Nonetheless, Alex Sackell returned to highschool with 2 medals from Paris to start out her senior 12 months.
7. Stroke 50s Within the Olympics…Say No Extra
For years, it’s been a debate: ought to stroke 50s be added to the Olympic schedule? World Aquatics appears to assume so.
6. Summer season and Gretchen Strike Once more
There have been a whole lot of World Information on the 2024 SC World Championships and these information definitely stood out.
5. Gretchen Walsh Shatters 100 Fly World Report
On the US Olympic Trials, Gretchen Walsh turned heads when she broke Sarah Sjostrom’s World Report within the 100 butterfly, signaling the beginning of a fantastic summer season for the Virginia swimmer.
4. Leon Marchand’s Olympic Soiled Double
Leon Marchand threw down a number of spectacular swims in Paris. Nonetheless, successful gold within the 200 breast and 200 fly with lower than 2 hours between races was definitely the spotlight of the meet, marking a real “Soiled Double”.
3. They’re Again!
Getting into the US Olympic Trials, many followers had been questioning what sort of type Caeleb Dressel and Simone Manuel could be in. Nonetheless, these doubts had been rapidly settled with each swimmers posting spectacular performances following breaks from the game.
2. Celebrating the Anniversary of Michael Phelps’ Report-Breaking Gold
With the Paris Olympics in progress, we mirrored again to Michael Phelps’ historic eighth gold medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which ended up being probably the most fashionable posts of this Olympic 12 months.
1. Dressel and Others Lead the Street to Paris
Our most-liked submit of 2024 was a compilation of pictures taken by Jack Spitser, highlighting a number of the US swimmers who booked their tickets to Paris throughout Trials, together with Caeleb Dressel, Regan Smith, Ryan Murphy, and Jack Alexy.
