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Cullen Jones has a front-row seat for the wave of changes in the sport of swimming — and continues to be a part of them. The professional sport is pushing new boundaries in regard to age, and Jones is helping lead the sport into greater diversity. "I was thinking about getting a pool and opening a s...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Bobby Finke Dominates 1500 Free, Completes Florida Freestyle Sweep; Brinegar Clips "A" Cut for Second Place Bobby Finke has spent several years rising up the ranks in American distance swimming. He qualified for his first World Championships team as a 16-year-old in 2019, and du...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Ryan Held Misses Olympic Team Despite Sixth-Place Finish in 100 Free Ryan Held will not be on the U.S. Olympic swim team because of a roster crunch. Held finished sixth in the men's 100 free final Thursday in 48.46, which would normally qualify a swimmer for the Olympic team as ...

Simone Manuel touched the wall and immediately looked up in hope. After missing the final in the 100 freestyle, and detailing her struggles leading up to the meet with over training syndrome, Manuel wasn't sure what she was going to be able to throw into the 50 freestyle. But she used a late reach t...

Natalie Hinds and Olivia Smoliga are seemingly inseparable. In practice, they swim together. Both breathe on opposite sides for freestyle, so they spend most training sessions facing each other. That was the case in Friday’s 100 freestyle final as well. After finishing the semifinals in a stunning t...

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U.S. Olympic Trials: Promising Trends Developing for Women’s and Men’s 400 Medley Relays Most of the news out of Omaha on the relay front this week has been less than promising for the Americans. The women’s freestyle relays are in much worse position than expected after no one broke 53.5 in the 100...

Tom Shields Builds From Suicide Attempt to Heroic Advocacy and Another Olympic Team Five years ago, Tom Shields qualified for his first Olympic team, finishing second behind Michael Phelps in both the 100 and 200 fly at Olympic Trials. He went on to earn a gold medal as a prelims relay at the Rio Ga...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Abbey Weitzeil Sets Best Time, Simone Manuel Moves on in 50 Free The women’s 100 freestyle threw down surprises Thursday night, in the sprint event that is usually a surer gauge than the splash and dash. Saturday night, for Simone Manuel at least, it proved a clearer guide. Manu...

After a dominant performance in the 100 butterfly, Caeleb Dressel returned his focus to the 50 freestyle for the semifinals, aiming to make one more final at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Dressel was about three tenths of a second off the world record in the butterfly and had about 40 minutes between rac...

Katie Ledecky, Katie Grimes Qualify for Tokyo 800 Free in Historic, Emotional, Full-Circle Moment The United States has produced legions of strong swimmers during the history of the Olympic Games, and no country has had more success in Olympic swimming. Each of those swimmers has qualified through t...

Who's Coaching Team USA? The Candidates for the Tokyo Olympics Staff With six out of eight days at the United States Olympic Trials complete, the Olympic team has begun to take shape, and enough swimmers have begun to qualify in multiple events to allow second-place finishers to be added to the wome...

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U.S. Olympic Trials, Day 7 Notebook: How Erika Brown Reinvented Herself to Make Tokyo In the fall of 2017, University of Tennessee sophomore Erika Brown was one of the feel-good stories of college swimming as she propelled herself from a non-NCAA qualifier as a freshman to one of the country’s top s...

Anastasia Pagonis twice lowered the world record in the women’s S11 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Paralympic Trials Friday in Minneapolis. Pagonis swam a time of 4 minutes, 59.28 seconds in prelims, then lowered it to 4:56.16 in the finals. That trounced the world record of 5:02.19 set by the Neth...

Roster Crunch: Will Anyone Miss the Cut for the Olympic Team? Just two days of finals (and six total individual finals) remain at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, and there's still a lot of uncertainty about who will make it onto the Olympic team for Tokyo. Only 26 women and 26 men can actually be ...

After Fractured Foot and Gutsy Semifinal of 200 Backstroke, Kathleen Baker Still Pushing For Tokyo Kathleen Baker, the 2016 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 100 back, has had a rough week at the Olympic Trials in Omaha after she failed to make the final in her first two events, the 100 backstr...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Abbey Weitzeil First in 50 Free Prelims, Simone Manuel Rebounds to Qualify Second; 17 Swimmers to Semifinals After Overturned DQ Fresh off a win in the 100 free Friday evening, Abbey Weitzeil returned to the pool for the 50 free prelims and won the final heat in 24.50, in route ...

U.S. Olympic Trials: American Women’s Freestyle Relays Looking Shaky on Road to Tokyo While many Americans have asserted themselves or defended their status as Olympic medal contenders this week in Omaha, few events have seen more of a dropoff from the pre-meet status quo than the women’s freestyles...

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