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But it will also serve as an opportunity for British Swimming to begin identifying young athletes who could be the next leaders of the sport at the 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>British Swimming released this week the schedule for the Olympic Trials, set for April 12-17, and each event (except the men\u2019s 1500 free and women\u2019s 800 free) will feature three championship final heats in the evening session. The \u201cOpen Final\u201d will consist of the top eight qualifiers in each event, regardless of age. That heat will exclusively be used to select athletes for the 2016 Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>The second-fastest finals heat will be called the \u201cTarget Tokyo Final,\u201d for athletes who do not make the cut for the \u201cOpen Final\u201d but will have the experience of getting a second swim at the Olympic Trials, as a rehearsal of sorts for the 2020 Trials. The boys\u2019 \u201cTarget Tokyo Final\u201d will be limited to swimmers born between 1996 and 1999 and for girls born between 1997 and 2000. <\/p>\n<p>The meet will also feature a \u201cJunior Final\u201d heat specifically designed to pick athletes for next summer\u2019s European junior championships. Those heats will be only for boys born between 1998 and 2001 and for girls born between 1999 and 2002, in accordance with the age limits for the European junior championships. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time the British Olympic Trials will highlight young swimmers in the finals. <strong>Tim Jones<\/strong>, British Swimming\u2019s head of performance pathway, said testing this format at nationals earlier this year was such a success that it was natural to use it at Trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone quite liked the idea of having three finals (at nationals), and having a bit of a progression to see what was coming through the pathway,\u201d Jones said in an interview with <\/i>Swimming World<\/i>. \u201cIt gives a nice bit of progression from youth swimming into senior swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones brings the idea of putting the junior athletes into the spotlight at a major meet from his five years working with the British senior gymnastics team before taking his current post in 2013. The country saw its best performance in gymnastics at the Olympics in London in 2012, taking four medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of times we competed in major venues with the pressure on, and it helped the team to produce when it mattered in 2012,\u201d Jones said. He wants the younger swimmers who compete in the \u201cTarget Tokyo Final\u201d to have the same feeling as the gymnasts, to know the experience of racing at their best under pressure so they are ready for it when they make their first international team.<\/p>\n<p>Putting an age limit on the \u201cTarget Tokyo Final\u201d came from extensive research \u201caround what the profile of a typical Olympian would look like\u201d in 2020, Jones said. He didn\u2019t want the second-fastest final of each event to be merely a B final for the ninth- through 16th-place swimmers, but rather a place for athletes of a certain age to get their appetites whetted for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re almost acting as prospectors in terms of trying to get a group of athletes that might just miss out on Rio (and give them) an opportunity to feel as if they\u2019re on a journey to Tokyo,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being able to see who\u2019s right on the cusp of breaking through into the senior elite ranks in Great Britain, the two extra finals will show the British government how dedicated British Swimming is to developing future talent while taking care of the present crop of world-class swimmers. The government funds a large chunk of British Swimming, including the money given to athletes as they continue to train. That includes the 21 athletes named this week to the Podium Squad and the 45 picked for the Podium Potential team, all of whom have been identified by British Swimming as medal prospects in the near and far future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s part of a process to show (the British government) that we\u2019re really thinking this through,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>British Swimming is on a roll in the pool, having won a history-making gold medal in the men\u2019s 800 free relay at the world championships as one of the five gold medals won at the meet. That bodes well for next year\u2019s Olympics, but Jones said British Swimming needs to get the next generation ready to replace those who might retire after Rio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to move our program along,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to rest on our laurels. 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