Let\u2019s face it\u2014the first three mornings of preliminary swimming at Olympic Trials had gone very much according to script. There were no major upsets or breakthroughs or even especially fast times. Finals, another story, but coming through the 200 fly, it looked like we had another ho-hum morning in store.<\/p>\n
All that changed really quickly. Cassidy Bayer<\/strong> was awaiting her turn to be interviewed when everything in the mixed zone went dead silent. Swimmers, coaches and press all turned towards the downstairs scoreboard to the name at the bottom of the results\u2014Cammile Adams<\/strong>\u2014and the letters \u201cDQ.\u201d<\/p>\n Bayer sat stunned for a moment before we actually turned on the camera. Adams had sprinted away from an on-deck interview with NBC\u2019s Michele Tafoya<\/strong> as soon as she saw the DQ, and during Bayer\u2019s video viewers can see Adams power-walking past with David Marsh<\/strong> and Frank Busch<\/strong> by her side.<\/p>\n The media members speculated on what could have gone wrong but heard nothing official. One swimmer who had been in heat one of the next event, the 200 breast, mentioned that they had been held on deck for several minutes before the race while the results were unofficial.<\/p>\n Finally, Marsh walked back over with USA Swimming communications director Scott Leightman<\/strong>. Marsh stepped away for a moment as Leightman confirmed that they just wanted to be 100% sure that the DQ had been overturned, and Adams was again the top qualifier for the semifinals.<\/p>\n \u201cCammile had a very nice morning swim,\u201d Marsh said. \u201cThe officials on deck, when they perceive something, they can make a call knowing it\u2019s going to underwater backup camera. We went down, looked into our cameras with Cammile, with Frank Busch and myself and the officials.<\/p>\n \u201cThe perception by the official was that she came off the wall on her back, and the underwater camera confirms that it has her toes on the wall, [and] she was fully on her side moving toward her stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n Adams came back more than an hour later, obviously relieved after a stressful morning.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I saw, obviously a little bit of panic. A lot of panic,\u201d Adams said. \u201cBut just really thankful for the systems we have.<\/p>\n \u201cGot to go back to the head official and just look at the underwater camera. With it being overturned, I\u2019m obviously very thankful. I have great support behind me with David and Bob<\/strong> [Groseth<\/strong>] on my end and my dad being here as well, and then Frank Busch came down into the room as well just to have the moral support behind me, and I think it makes a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n Adams was the top qualifier by almost a second ahead of Hali Flickinger<\/strong> (2:09.20) and Bayer (2:09.29), and the World Championships silver medalist will be favored to make it a second-straight Olympic Trials win in the 200 fly Thursday night.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously it was a little bit more emotional than I wanted it to be this morning, but I was really happy with that race,\u201d Adams said. \u201cAfter not racing for two days and just kind of sitting around, I wanted to get back into the meet, and I\u2019m really looking forward to tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s face it\u2014the first three mornings of preliminary swimming at Olympic Trials had gone very much according to script. There were no major upsets or breakthroughs or even especially fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[56855,35579,27841,33342,2716,25272,1517,42657,37522,835,45688],"class_list":["post-210077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2016-us-olympic-swimming-trials","tag-bob-groseth","tag-cammile-adams","tag-cassidy-bayer","tag-david-marsh","tag-david-rieder","tag-frank-busch","tag-hali-flickinger","tag-judd-howard","tag-michele-tafoya","tag-scott-leightman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n