{"id":210071,"date":"2016-06-29T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=210071"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:41:20","slug":"the-magical-moments-of-olympic-trials-plus-bulldogs-rolling-and-phelps-biding-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-magical-moments-of-olympic-trials-plus-bulldogs-rolling-and-phelps-biding-his-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magical Moments of Olympic Trials \u2014 Plus Bulldogs Rolling and Phelps Biding His Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Rieder<\/p>\n<p>For those at the top, the ones who come into Olympic Trials with substantial r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of Olympic medals and World titles, this week\u2019s trip to Omaha, Neb., is pure business. Get it done and finish top-two, or all the work you\u2019ve done with the Olympic Games in mind goes for naught. Such is the cruel nature of this meet.<\/p>\n<p>But for those who have yet to earn the title of \u201cOlympian,\u201d these finals sessions inside the CenturyLink Center represent the biggest moments of their swimming career. Think about <strong>Chase Kalisz<\/strong>, standing behind lane four for the very first final of the Olympic Trials, knowing very well that the 400 IM is his best shot\u2014perhaps his only shot\u2014at making the team. Ditto <strong>Kelsi Worrell<\/strong> a night later in the 100 fly.<\/p>\n<p>Both responded. Kalisz overcame a huge first-half deficit to win the 400 IM comfortably in 4:09.48, and Worrell uncorked the swim of a lifetime, passing <strong>Dana Vollmer<\/strong> off the turn and then pulling away. Worrell touched in 56.48 Monday night for the second-fastest time in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then she broke into tears.<\/p>\n<p>Observers around the country can see the emotional moments that take place in the pool during the seconds after the race ends. It\u2019s hard to forget how Kalisz\u2019s eyes lit up when he saw that going with him in the 400 IM to Rio would be Georgia teammate <strong>Jay Litherland<\/strong>, who had stormed past Ryan Lochte on the last 50 to move into Olympic position.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the moment that sticks with you is <strong>Leah Smith<\/strong> repeatedly mouthing \u201cOh my god!\u201d to <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> after the pair booked their Olympic spots in the 400 free\u2014while Ledecky looked elated that a second American would be a medal contender in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>How about last night, when <strong>Olivia Smoliga<\/strong> and <strong>Kathleen Baker<\/strong> made the team in the 100 back, and Baker proceeded to bulrush the lane line as she embraced her new teammate. These are the feel-great moments that NBC loves publicizing in their Olympic content.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The face you make when you realize you&#8217;re going to Olympics!! So thankful for everyone&#8217;s support ??\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KTMpXAnGWu\">pic.twitter.com\/KTMpXAnGWu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathleen Baker (@KathleenBaker2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KathleenBaker2\/status\/748203386533609472\">June 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0then there\u2019s what happens behind the scenes, when the Olympians reunite with their teammates, coaches and friends. From my position in the mixed zone, I spend each night watching teammates line up for bear hugs.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Louisville team awaited a bawling Worrell after her 100 fly victory Monday night, but one greeting was quick. <strong>Andrea Cottrell<\/strong>, Worrell\u2019s roommate and her co-captain on the Louisville team, got in one quick hug before heading to the ready room for the 100 breast semis\u2014and then proceeding to qualify sixth for the final.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night was a massive night for the athletes of SwimMAC Carolina as both Baker and <strong>Katie Meili<\/strong> made the team in their signature events. Baker got through the mixed zone, shared a quick moment with Cal teammate <strong>Katie McLaughlin<\/strong>\u2014who had herself just snuck into the 200 free final\u2014before heading to the warm-down pool.<\/p>\n<p>But with Meili up in just minutes, Baker got out quickly and went to watch the 100 breast. When she saw the result, she\u00a0joined<strong> Madison Kennedy<\/strong>, <strong>Alyssa Marsh<\/strong> and others in greeting the second-place finisher.<\/p>\n<p>There are five days of finals left here at Olympic Trials, with more than half the team still to fill out, but I bet that nothing beats the moment we witnessed last night after the women\u2019s 100 back final.<\/p>\n<p>After watching Smoliga qualify for Rio, Georgia senior <strong>Emily Cameron<\/strong> stood at the entrance to the mixed zone, her eyes welling and reddening. Cameron had watched everything Smoliga had been through, including the bout with mono that derailed her sophomore campaign at UGA. After the biggest accomplishment of her teammate\u2019s career, every bit of Cameron\u2019s raw emotion poured out.<\/p>\n<p>But Cameron, of course, still had business to attend to with the 200 IM semifinals on tap. She proceeded to cut more than a second from her prelims time to sneak into tonight\u2019s championship final. Pretty nice day at the office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*During eight days<\/strong> of bold predictions, I predicted one swimmer from the University of Georgia to qualify for the Olympic team. That was Kalisz, who actually redshirted this past season to train with longtime club coach Bob Bowman in Tempe, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>But then Litherland stunned Lochte with a sensational closing split in the 400 IM to make the team on night one, and the Bulldog train kept on rolling. Seeing Smoliga make the team in the 100 back isn\u2019t a surprise after she swam a 59.41 earlier this month in Indianapolis and then led the way through each round of the 100 back. But the fourth Bulldog Olympian? Few would have picked him.<\/p>\n<p>It was not all that surprising to see <strong>Gunnar Bentz<\/strong> finish fourth in the 400 IM Sunday night. After all, he got third in the event at NCAAs a year ago and won a bronze medal in the 200 IM at Pan Ams. But in freestyle? He entered the meet seeded 32nd in the 200 free in 1:49.85. Hardly on anyone\u2019s Olympic radar.<\/p>\n<p>But Bentz is an Olympian after doing what he needed to do in the 200 free final\u2014beat two guys. Actually, he beat three, coming in fifth in 1:47.33. Bentz has traditionally been an IMer and a butterflyer, but he knew that there were six open slots on the Olympic team in that event, compared to just two spots in his signature IM races. Many versatile swimmers shift their focus towards the 200 free in an Olympic year with dreams of a top-six finish, and that\u2019s the dream Bentz just converted into reality.<\/p>\n<p>So four Bulldogs on the team\u2014that\u2019s got to be all right? Well, don\u2019t look now, but <strong>Pace Clark<\/strong> has looked really, really good in the 200 fly thus far. He\u2019s the second seed heading into the final with a 1:56.27. <strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> is still widely considered the favorite for that second spot\u2014he qualified seventh for the final less than an hour after finishing third in the 200 free\u2014but if we\u2019ve learned anything this week, it\u2019s to not count out anyone with a \u201cG\u201d on their cap.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the 200 fly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Yes, I\u2019ll talk about Michael Phelps<\/strong> right now. For all of the sport\u2019s favorite darlings struggling right now\u2014particularly Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin\u2014Phelps has been solid as can be through his first two races in Omaha. His 1:55.17 from the semifinals ranks him sixth in the world, but there was no reason for him to have gone any faster than that as no one has yet challenged him for the top seed in either prelims or semis.<\/p>\n<p>Phelps has looked especially smooth so far, and he clearly let up the last 50 of his semifinal swim last night. He told the press yesterday that his legs felt sore during his prelims swim, and then his arms were off in the evening. He chopped two turns in the semifinal, which the always-self-critiquing Phelps will surely be set on improving in tonight\u2019s finals race.<\/p>\n<p>The race will be for second and then between Phelps and the clock. The top time in the world this year is <strong>Laszlo Cseh\u2019s<\/strong> 1:52.91 from the European Championships last month. Will Phelps better that tonight? Perhaps it\u2019s unlikely, given that he has no need to swim all that fast to finish first, but you can bet Phelps wants to send a message to Cseh that this is still his event.<\/p>\n<p>Cseh has been the ultimate bridesmaid to Phelps over the years, even more so than <strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong>. Cseh has won five Olympic medals, none of them gold, and in each of those medal races Phelps won gold. 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