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By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay. Before all the crazed Michael Phelps<\/strong> and Misty Hyman<\/strong> fans pick up their torches and pitchforks, let me explain. Let\u2019s pretend, for the briefest of moments, that Michael Phelps and Misty Hyman never existed. Without Phelps or Hyman, the United States\u2019 role in recent Olympic history of the 200m butterfly is, dare I say, mediocre?<\/p>\n

After Tom Malchow<\/strong> won the gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, no American male, besides Michael Phelps, has earned a medal in the 200m Butterfly at any other Olympic Games. Malchow would go on the place 8th in Athens, behind Phelps winning gold. At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Phelps won the gold again while Gil Stovall<\/strong>, the second American, failed to advance past the semi-finals. At the London Olympics in 2012, Phelps would go on to lose the event for the first time in international competition since 2001, placing second to South Africa\u2019s Chad le Clos<\/strong>. In that same race, Tyler Clary<\/strong>, the second American, placed 5th. At Rio, in 2016, Phelps earned yet another gold, while Tom Shields<\/strong>, the second American in that race swam to a 20th place finish.<\/p>\n

The same one-swimmer dominance is seen on the women\u2019s side. Misty Hyman won gold in 2000 (and, to this day, is USA\u2019s most recent female gold medalist in that event) while Kaitlin Sandeno<\/strong> earned a 5th place finish. At Athens in 2004, Sandeno would take the bronze with no other American even making the final. Along comes Beijing 2008 and our two Americans, Elaine Breeden<\/strong> and Kathleen Hersey<\/strong>, take 7th and 8th. In London 2012, Hersey and Cammile Adams<\/strong> would take 4th and 5th place. Most recently in Rio, Cammile Adams got 4th and Hali Flickinger<\/strong> got 7th.<\/p>\n

\"Misty<\/p>\n

So after digesting all of these heavy facts, let’s break them down. With the absence of Hyman and Phelps, the United States would not have any gold medals in the 200m butterfly since 2000 (excluding Malchow\u2019s gold in 2000). Since Hyman\u2019s retirement, the women have not medaled higher than bronze since 2004 as well as not medaled since 2008.<\/p>\n

Without Phelps, no men would have even medaled at the Olympics, post 2000. The world records would have been a different story as well. Phelps has held the world record since 2001 and has broken it eight times and still remains the only man to have ever broken 1:52. Hyman broke a 19-year-old record and held it securely for nine years, until it was broken in the super-suit era by Mary Descenza<\/strong>. This clearly shows that the United States\u2019 success at the Olympics in this event was heavily dominated by Phelps and Hyman.<\/p>\n

That raises another question; is the success of Phelps and Hyman, in the 200m butterfly, indicative of how successful the U.S. is as a whole? I would argue that it is not.<\/p>\n

Phelps is the greatest of all time, especially in his signature stroke, and so is Hyman. However, because of these anomalies, the rest of the U.S. was, sort of, swept under the rug when it came to the 200m fly. On the men\u2019s side, even at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, the majority of the final swam it in a time of 1:56, with the 8th place finisher going a 1:58. That\u2019s only a one-second improvement from the 2012 trials from a last-place-time stand point. Even the average time from trials in 2012 was faster than 2016.<\/p>\n

Imagine every major race where Phelps won by a body-length and an American did not finish higher than eighth (2007 World Championships, 2008 Olympic Games, 2009 World Championships, just to name a few). With this, and the Olympic history, it is absolutely correct to say that Phelps was carrying the U.S. on his back in this event.<\/p>\n

On the women\u2019s side, the same effects take place. In the past two Olympic Trials, we have women swimming the race slower than 2:10 and still making the final. That is the The Post-Misty-Hyman-Effect in full force.<\/p>\n

This is where the men are headed as well, in this event. Phelps has not left the 200m butterfly in the greatest hands, and we celebrate when we see the fastest women in the country barely going under 2:10 at Olympic Trials. When will we see another textile 1:52 for the men? A 2:05 for the women? Who knows? What we do know is that the U.S. has some work to do in the 200m fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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