2024 U.S. Olympic Selection
Can you feel it? After tonight's session, the meet is officially halfway through. While fatigue is starting to set in, here are some swimmers who are still pushing themselves hard on Day 5.
I overreacted and ruined some of the great swimming in the heats, but luckily there were a lot of other swimmers who swam great on Day 4.
Maddie Huggins The Club Seminole swimmer had an outstanding swim in the women's 200 breaststroke. The Florida State swimmer shaved over a second off her entry time, rocketing from 31st to 9th on the psych sheet (2:29.17), the first time she had ever gone under 2:30. She again went under 2:30 overnight, but her time was slightly slower than her morning time, finishing 12th overall (2:29.43).
The theme throughout the morning was big leaps from seed. Martin Peresinski One of those winners was in the 200 backstroke, where the Ohio State University commit shaved nearly three seconds off his time to break two minutes for the first time in his career (1:58.24), moving him from 44th to ninth. He couldn't improve his time in the semifinals, finishing with a time of 2:00.98, but still managed to shave a few hundredths of a second off his entry time.
While we're talking about the 200 back, Jay Litherland There was a surprise entry in this event. The Tokyo Olympic athlete ran a personal best of 1:59.30 in 2016 and improved that to 1:57.59 by the end of the semi-finals to place 6th in the final. While he's unlikely to make the national team, it's great to see how Litherland has continued to improve over the years in the sport.
The women's 200m butterfly was perhaps the quietest event of the morning, Lucy Bell He dropped the most time to earn his first semifinal appearance (he also made the final in the 400 IM). The rising junior started off in 2:10.53 and dropped to 2:08.90 by the end of the semifinal, placing him just ahead of his freshman teammate in seventh place tomorrow night. Charlotte Hook.
