{"id":210197,"date":"2016-06-29T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=210197"},"modified":"2016-06-30T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:22:48","slug":"210197-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/210197-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(Video Interview) DiRado Qualifies for Second Individual Event For Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maya DiRado<\/strong> qualified for her second individual swim in Rio by winning the women&#8217;s 200 IM.\u00a0She stopped the clock in 2:09.54, the third best time in the world this year.<\/p>\n<p>DiRado held the top times in both prelims and semifinals as well, dropping time in all three of her races.\u00a0She swept both IM events in Omaha after winning the 400 IM in 4:33.73 to earn her first Olympic berth.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0told the media after her race that she&#8217;s pleased with her time but thinks it can be a lot better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Full Interview:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maya DiRado  200 IM Final\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoMvI9OBqCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya DiRado qualified for her second individual swim in Rio by winning the women&#8217;s 200 IM.\u00a0She stopped the clock in 2:09.54, the third best time in the world this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":209379,"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],"tags":[56855,26699,2302,57909],"class_list":["post-210197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-2016-us-olympic-swimming-trials","tag-maya-dirado","tag-usa-2","tag-video-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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