SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side, or you can find the poll embedded at the bottom of this post.
Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers how they felt about USA Swimming’s announcement that Omaha, Nebraska would host the 2020 Olympic Trials for the fourth-straight cycle.
RESULTS
Question: What best describes your feelings about Omaha as the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials host?
- I like Omaha; I’m glad the meet is returning – 38.3%
- I like Omaha, but wish the meet would try a new city – 55.1%
- I don’t like Omaha and wish the meet was elsewhere – 6.6%
An overwhelming amount of voters said they liked Omaha as an Olympic Trials host, but more than half of respondents said they’d like the meet to move to a new city.
Only 6.6% of votes expressed dislike for Omaha as a city, but still 55% said they’d prefer to see the meet try a different host city. Roughly 38% of votes supported a return to Omaha.\
USA Swimming announced the new host city earlier this month, returning to Omaha, the venue and city that has hosted the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. Fan reaction seemed split at the time, with many fans hoping for a new venue and city for the 2020 version of the event. We caught up with USA Swimming Interim Executive Director Mike Unger last week to get more information on USA Swimming’s and the USOC’s decision, and you can read that piece here.
Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which asks voters to predict the winner of the 2017 Pro Swim Series points standings on the women’s side:
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Omaha has some of the worst roads in the nation.
Wow just wow, Marlin Perkins is turning n his grave.
If it is LA 2024 then they should have the trials in LA that year
That will certainly be the test event, or maybe a Pan Pacs meet the year before. It happened that way in Atlanta in 1995 (Pan Pacs) for the Olympics in 1996.
USA swimming should hold the trials at the Eisenhower aquatic center in Nassau county long island. Great swimming facility and plenty of hotels to host a such a major meet.
Tarzan – nice facility, and I’m sure it will do a great job this summer…but again, hosting Trials there would require sacrificing millions of dollars in revenue in ticket sales and probably many millions of more dollars in lost sponsorship (sponsors will pay a lot more for 15,000 butts in the seats).
Agree. USA swimming’s philosophy right now is to rake in as much cash as possible. Raising age group swimming registrations each year and inviting close to 2000 to the Trials so they can fill a 20k seat arena with as many mom’s, dad’s sisters, brothers and grandparents as possible.
60% of the time, it works all the time!
55% of the people who voted are on either coast and believe that the midwest shouldn’t get major sporting events. 😉
Not true, 55% of the people who voted are from the midwest and were hoping to visit either coast in the summer.
Both not true, 75 percent of all statistics are made up.
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