{"id":206869,"date":"2016-06-07T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=206869"},"modified":"2016-06-07T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:58:33","slug":"heartbreak-by-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/heartbreak-by-hundreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak By Hundreds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At U.S. Trials, the men&#8217;s 100 fly and 100 back are all set to feature spirit-crushing drama&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Commentary by Casey Barrett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brutal theme of Olympic Trials is heartbreak. Sure, it&#8217;s the most exciting swim meet on the planet, and yes, there&#8217;s nothing quite like witnessing the fulfillment of dreams when the chosen few touch first or second. But the fact remains that 98% of the swimmers at U.S. Trials will go home un-Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>Most know that they don&#8217;t have a realistic shot going in; they&#8217;re just happy to be in Omaha. Many have convinced themselves they&#8217;re Rio-bound. Even if your prospects are slim, you&#8217;re believing in miracles right about now. And so you should. Yet, there&#8217;s a third subset of swimmers who will come and go in Omaha with a particularly heavy burden. They are the ones expected to make it, and don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>These are the doomed ones. The dead men and women walking that are hard to look at after a near miss. No one wants to be that guy or that girl. If you lacked empathy before, you&#8217;ll feel that virtue in a hurry when you imagine what it must be like to be in their shattered shoes.<\/p>\n<p>It happens at every Trials, and for all the car wreck gawking it produces, it&#8217;s one of the priceless things that makes trials, Trials. Sometimes you don&#8217;t see it coming. The events that were foregone conclusions are suddenly up-ended and some 14-year-old upstart is standing giggling under the bright lights, while some veteran weeps in the warm-down pool.<\/p>\n<p>But with other events, you can see the coming carnage a mile away. Which brings us to the men&#8217;s 100 fly and 100 back. It&#8217;s a long established fact that American swimming is deeper than any other country&#8217;s. By, like, a lot. It&#8217;s cruelly deep. To the point where there have been times when a U.S. swimmer missed the Team at Trials, and would have likely been on an Olympic podium a few weeks later. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hayley-mcgregory-looks-to-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hayley McGregory<\/strong><\/a>, my heart will always break for you&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the contenders in the men&#8217;s 100 fly: <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> \/ <strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> \/ <strong>Tom Shields<\/strong> \/ <strong>Tim Phillips<\/strong>&#8230; Not to mention <strong>Seth Stubblefield<\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong>, and plenty of emerging others.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you&#8217;d have to be a fool or a punch-drunk hater to bet against Phelps in the 100 fly. He of the miracle finish, he of the three-straight Olympic golds in that event, all by narrow margins&#8230; Yeah, he&#8217;s gonna be one of the two in this event.<\/p>\n<p>The other one? Well, Conger just went 51.72 last weekend in Austin, a fingernail behind Phelps, and his star is on the rise, seemingly at the perfect time. But does that mean <strong>Tom Shields<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t make the Team? Hard to imagine, after years as a stalwart on the National Team. He could just as easily be standing with his hand over his heart on the podium in Rio as staring at a scoreboard in disbelief in Omaha. So it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And so it will go in the men&#8217;s 100 back, as well. Last weekend,<strong> David Plummer<\/strong> lit it up at the Grand Prix in Indy. His 52.40 catapulted him to the front of the pack in the always stacked men&#8217;s 100 back. But does he have enough to beat the Chosen (Next) One, <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>? Will the journeyman Plummer and the new king Murphy both bring down defending Olympic champion, <strong>Matt Grevers<\/strong>? Like Shields, it seems unthinkable that Grevers, such a fixture of the National Team, wouldn&#8217;t be there in Rio. Yet, he&#8217;s sure looking like another superstar on the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p>There are others, to be sure. Loads of events at these coming U.S. Trials are rich in drama and inevitable upsets. Those are just a taste. Trials hurt. That&#8217;s what makes them so much fun, and also so very hard to watch at times.<\/p>\n<p>Three more weeks till all that beautiful heartbreak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views\u00a0of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At U.S. Trials, the men&#8217;s 100 fly and 100 back are all set to feature spirit-crushing drama&#8230; Commentary by Casey Barrett The brutal theme of Olympic Trials is heartbreak. 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