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Our most up-to-date ballot requested SwimSwam readers what the most important highlights of the U.S. Olympic Trials have been:
Query 1: What was the most important spotlight of the primary 4 days of the U.S. Olympic Trials?
RESULTS
Query 2: What was the most important spotlight of the second half of the U.S. Olympic Trials?
RESULTS
- Six males sub-48 in 100 free remaining – 25.9%
- Dressel makes group, wins 50 free/100 fly – 23.3%
- Manuel makes group, wins 50 free – 21.1%
- Matt Fallon AR – 16.6%
- Douglass triples 100 fr, 200 br, 200 IM – 13.1%
FIRST HALF
Lucas Oil Stadium was already abuzz on the evening of June fifteenth, because the extremely anticipated first finals session from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials had lastly arrived and the vitality and pleasure within the crowd was palpable.
Gretchen Walsh cranked issues up by a number of notches when she soared to a brand new world document within the ladies’s 100 fly, knocking three-tenths off Sarah Sjostrom‘s longstanding mark in a time of 55.18, bringing the whole crowd to its toes.
Given what Walsh did on Day 1, cracking a world document that had been on the books for eight years and breaking by in lengthy course after a lot brief course promise (she was already a three-time World Championship medalist, however this was a very totally different degree), it was going to be exhausting for anybody to prime that second in Indianapolis.
Polling SwimSwam readers on what they felt the most important highlights have been of the Trials, Walsh’s world document was the clear prime choice.
The preliminary query was posed after the primary 4 days of racing, with Walsh joined by Regan Smith as world record-breakers on the meet on Day 4, as Smith reclaimed the all-time mark within the ladies’s 100 again, clocking 57.13 to clear Kaylee McKeown‘s commonplace of 57.33 set in October.
That efficiency had a number of layers of significance for Smith, who was additionally an in depth third within the 100 fly remaining that Walsh gained, but it surely was nonetheless the clear runner-up to Walsh by way of highlights over the primary 4 days, receiving simply over 28% of votes in comparison with 52.8% for Walsh.
Exterior of the 2 world information, a number of the loudest cheers of the meet have been reserved for Gabrielle Rose, who made the semi-finals of the ladies’s 100 breaststroke on the age of 46.
Rose picked up 10.8% of votes, whereas the opposite two choices have been associated to what we had seen from some longtime members of Group USA.
Caeleb Dressel and Simone Manuel hadn’t but made the Olympic group, however have been again within the pool and appeared good. Their returns bought over 6% of votes, whereas Katie Ledecky, Lilly King and Ryan Murphy persevering with their home dominance—which was anticipated—with wins at three straight Trials bought a handful of votes.
SECOND HALF
The again half of the meet didn’t have one clear spotlight that stood above the remaining as evidenced by our ballot, because the fifth/last-place possibility bought a better share of votes than the #3 decide did within the first half ballot.
Popping out on prime by a slender margin was the lads’s 100 free, which was blazing-fast as six swimmers went underneath 48 seconds.
Jack Alexy set a brand new U.S. Open File within the prelims (47.08), Chris Guiliano claimed the highest seed out of the semis with a brand new private finest (47.25), after which within the remaining, Guiliano (47.38) bought the higher of Alexy (47.47) whereas Caeleb Dressel punched his ticket to Paris by inserting third in 47.53.
Hunter Armstrong (47.78), Ryan Held (47.82) and Matt King (47.94) have been additionally sub-48 within the remaining (Armstrong was 47.59 within the semis), giving the U.S. loads to be enthusiastic about for the 400 free relay on the Olympics. Dressel mentioned the longstanding world document of three:08.24, set by the People in 2008 in that epic race towards France, was on their radar heading to Paris.
Greater than 1 / 4 of readers (25.9%) mentioned the 100 free remaining was the most important spotlight of the second half of Trials, but it surely wasn’t the one standout second.
Dressel returning to his finest, or no less than near it, was the runner-up within the ballot after his prolonged hiatus in 2022 led him to fall nicely shy of the qualifying for the 2023 World Championship group as he was working his approach again to type.
After inserting third within the 100 free, Dressel gained the 100 fly (50.19) and 50 free (21.41), giving him the chance to defend two of his Olympic titles in Paris.
Just like Dressel, Simone Manuel had been off the radar at main worldwide meets because the Tokyo Olympics, however returned with spectacular type in Indianapolis to qualify for her third Olympic group. She was robust within the 200 free, narrowly lacking a relay spot in Paris, after which earned one within the 100 free, inserting 4th.
She saved her finest for the ultimate evening, successful the 50 free in 24.13, her quickest time since 2019.
The returns of Dressel (23.3%) and Manuel (21.1%) each obtained loads of votes, whereas Matt Fallon‘s American File within the males’s 200 breast (16.6%) and Kate Douglass‘ trio of wins within the 100 free, 200 breast and 200 IM (13.1%) additionally bought their justifiable share.
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