2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS
- Sunday June 26th-Sunday July 3rd, 2016
- Century Link Center – Omaha, Nebraska
- Friday-Sunday – Prelims – 11:00 am EDT Finals – 7:45 pm EDT
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Two days are down in Omaha at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, and Michael Phelps will finally get in for his first race of the meet with the 200 fly prelims.
Phelps scratched the 200 free prelims yesterday morning, making the 200 fly his first race. He’s the top seed, and will be swimming out of lane four in heat nine. Club Wolverine’s Kyle Whitaker and SwimMAC’s Tyler Clary will flank Phelps in that heat, though Jack Conger is the favorite to get a top two spot with Phelps in the final. Conger is in lane four, just one heat before Phelps.
The women’s 200 free, which will feature a blockbuster matchup between Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin, and Allison Schmitt, also has prelims this morning. They’re the top three seeds, so they’ll be in lane four for the last three heats– Schmitt in heat nine, Franklin in heat ten, and Ledecky in heat eleven.
Leah Smith, who was stellar in her 4:00 400 free last night, is actually looking like a sneak pick to join Ledecky in the 200 free top two if Schmitt and Franklin swim as lackluster as they did last night. Smith is in lane five in the last heat, right next to Ledecky.
The third and final prelims event is the women’s 200 IM, which will feature 400 IM champion Maya Dirado from night one. Ella Eastin, who was off of her best in the 400 IM, will try to bounce back and make a claim for a top two spot in the 200 IM, arguably her better race. She’ll be in the final heat next to Dirado, with 400 IM 3rd-place finisher Bethany Galat also in that heat.
Phelps already qualified for 17 individual events in his career (1+6+5+5), let’s see if he can take it to 20.
Since he is only swimming three, 17.
Michael, Time to bring home the bacon!! Who drives the boat?? Hooper drives the boat dam it!! LOL Go get em B-More!!
dont sleep on leah smith! that 400 was phenom. ledecky and Franklin? allison? will be a fantastic 200 for womeimmango ledecky and Franklin
I bank on Ledecky and Leah Smith for the 2 spots – and maybe Missy and Schmitty for the 2 next relay spots …
I am not at all optimistic MIssy will be in the top 4 in 200 free 🙁
phelps is the GOAT (that stands for greatest of all tiem) and you can take that to the bank. excited to see his “victory lap” that will be this Olympics. we will never see another like him except for Michael Andrew.
Not even Michael Andrew. Katie Ledecky is the only person who looks like she could upset Phelps’s medal or gold medal haul. I don’t know about the 8 golds, but perhaps medal count or gold medal count. Not saying she will, just saying that if anyone could possibly break that record, she could.
BTW, Phelps will swim a nice controlled 1:56 this morning. Maybe a 1:57 if the heats are slow.
200 fly, Shields scheduled to swim, only a matter of time before our guy PIANOBACK provides some commentary 🙂
Why? Shields will qualify:)
He will qualify for finals, but that piano is coming out.
Wait and see my friend..
False projections my friend – too early to say
Told you
You mean “Piano on his Head”…..which is even funnier. Shields is either going 1:54.7 tomorrow, or he has given up on the event, and will just fly in the 100m, swimming 50.75 to qualify first or second. I hope that its a bit of both, because he is the most underrated of all the US swimming stars.
totally agree – he is a great butterflyer and a great swimmer .
Phelps wont qualify, mark my words!
mkay… got ’em marked.
Why is that, the other American men have not beaten him since Tom Malchow.
I don’t recall ever seeing any posts from HENRIK before, so I doubt you’ll be around tomorrow night after his ticket his punched to catch hell for this comment.
There was one, he said way back in August that Phelps must be doping because of his rise in swimming :/
I can’t bother to get riled by this. As my mother would say, either he will or he won’t.
for your sake I hope this is a troll comment it is poor ignorance at its finest he will qualify mark my words
He’ll punch his ticket all right. The real showdown will be in Rio. Save your predictions for the “Rumble in the Zika Jungle”.
Hey, that’s me!
I wanna talk to you in about 1 hour and a half, I’ll bet he gets first. And I could bet Conger 2nd. I am worried about him, Andrew and Shields have upped their game, but he also had the 200 free.
Commitswimming result site is awful –
That is understatement. It is the worst app I have used. The results and heat sheets are not up for hours, it crashes constantly and tells you” you are not allowed to write..” which makes it impossible to see anything within the app.
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Here’s the perfect recipe for inducing fits of rage: Hide splits so that you have to click. each. swimmer’s. name. to see what should already be displayed. Then put some splits behind a paywall. Also a perfect recipe to get users to swear off the app forever.
Abbott, on the web, you can see all splits for free. On mobile, you can click on the time and the splits for the race will show up for you. Clicking on the athlete’s name takes you to their profile and “meet story” (what they’ve swam, what they’re swimming, etc.), which is a premium features.
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My mistake. I was having to click on 400free results to see the splits, so I was autopilot clicking swimmer names on the shorter races not noticing the splits are next to the names for those. Thanks
No problem! For the longer races, it’s hard to fit all the splits on the same row as the name and final time, so if you click on the time (not the name), then you’ll see the detailed splits show up below. Click on the time again and the row closes back up.
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Hope this helps, and thanks again.