{"id":477251,"date":"2021-06-16T04:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=477251"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:02:22","slug":"american-men-in-deep-trouble-for-mens-800-free-relay-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/american-men-in-deep-trouble-for-mens-800-free-relay-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"American Men in Trouble for Men\u2019s 800 Freestyle Relay at Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American Men in Trouble for Men\u2019s 800 Free Relay at Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outside of the boycotted 1980 Olympics, the American men have won a medal in every single swimming relay ever contested at the Olympics. Every single one. The vast majority of those teams have been gold medalists, but third place has been the basement. The longest-running Olympic relay is the men\u2019s 800 freestyle relay, and the Americans have 24 medals in 24 appearances in that relay.<\/p>\n<p>The streak is in significant jeopardy. The American prospects in the 200 free have been questionable for several years since <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> retired, and after the Americans settled for silver at the 2017 Worlds, they fell to bronze in 2019\u2014getting onto the podium by just 0.03 over Italy and 0.06 over Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>But surely, some swimmers would emerge prior to the Olympic year to help lead the Americans back to respectability, maybe not an absolute gold-medal favorite but at least a strong squad. But instead, as swimmers around the world kept posting rocket-quick times, no Americans stood out in the leadup to Trials. <strong>Kieran Smith<\/strong> was the only man to have broken 1:47 in 2021 prior to coming to Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Tuesday evening\u2019s 200 free final, the Americans\u2019 composite 800 free relay based on in-season best times was almost three seconds behind in the composite time based on the 2021 season-best times, but the U.S. 200 freestyle situation finally took a step forward Tuesday evening as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kieran-smith-doubles-up-with-200-free-win-leads-haas-kibler-seliskar-in-4x200-free-relay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smith won the event in 1:45.29<\/a>\u2014almost a second quicker than his lifetime best prior to the meet\u2014while <strong>Townley Haas<\/strong> swam his fastest 200 free in three years in finishing second, and <strong>Drew Kibler<\/strong> dropped more than a second from his pre-meet best time to finish third in 1:45.92.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Seliskar<\/strong> also qualified to the team with his fourth-place time of 1:46.34, while <strong>Zach Apple<\/strong> (1:46.45) and <strong>Patrick Callan<\/strong> (1:46.49) will almost certainly be selected for Tokyo as relay alternates.<\/p>\n<p>Now, compare that to what Great Britain, Russia and Australia have in this event: at least four men who have swum under 1:46 in 2021. <strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Dean<\/strong> have each been in the 1:44-mid range, and they are the top two swimmers in the world this year. Russia has <strong>Martin Malyutin<\/strong> under 1:45. Australia doesn\u2019t have a standout at this point, but <strong>Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> certainly has 1:44 potential.<\/p>\n<p>Take the composite of the four countries\u2019 best times compared, and Great Britain is first, followed by Russia and then Australia. The Americans? Considerably behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great<\/strong> <strong>Britain<\/strong>: Duncan Scott 1:44.47 + Tom Dean 1:44.58 + Matt Richards 1:45.77 + James Guy 1:45.95 = 7:00.77<br \/>\n<strong>Russia<\/strong>: Martin Malyutin 1:44.79 + Ivan Girev 1:45.49 + AleksandrDovgalyuk 1:45.56 + Aleksandr Shchegolev 1:45.82 = 7:01.66<br \/>\n<strong>Australia<\/strong>: Alexander Graham 1:45.22 + Kyle Chalmers 1:45.48 + Elijah Winnington 1:45.55 + Thomas Neill 1:45.70 = 7:01.95<br \/>\n<strong>United States<\/strong>: Kieran Smith 1:45.29 + Townley Haas 1:45.66 + Drew Kibler 1:45.92 + Andrew Seliskar 1:46.34 = 7:03.21<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Seliskar has been as fast as 1:45.71, so he could be significantly faster come Tokyo. But there remains a significant gap to make up. However, when the four men who topped the race spoke to the press, they expressed optimism about their potential for improvement and ability to excel at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I thought tonight was a pretty good showing,\u201d Haas said. \u201cIn 2016, I think sixth place was 1:47-mid, and Carson was eighth this year with a 1:46-mid. I just think that kind of shows what we had.<\/p>\n<p>Kibler added, \u201cI also think Olympic Trials is a pretty challenging meet to put up some fast times, and I think it definitely gives us some experience and some direction on how we can handle those pressures moving forward and only get better in the next coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One more card exists for the Americans to play, assuming all goes according to plan over the next several days. <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> swam a 1:46.63 in prelims before scratching out of the semifinals. The final was so tight for places four through eight\u2014separated by just over three tenths of a second\u2014that Dressel\u2019s time only surpassed one swimmer in the final. Still, assuming the superstar 24-year-old qualifies for Tokyo (and it would be a stunner if he did not), he will be strongly considered for a spot on this relay. Given what he has accomplished in the 100 free and other sprint events, a 1:44 relay split is undoubtedly within his potential.<\/p>\n<p>But the numbers still suggest a significant challenge for the Americans\u2019 ability to get on the podium. It\u2019s tough to blame that on the individual men. They stepped up and delivered quick swims in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2021\/us-olympic-team-trials-wave-ii-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic Trials<\/a> final, and performances like that have not been a given this week. At this point, the Americans\u2019 underdog status really reflects the improvement and depth the three other countries have shown over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on the 2016 Trials, the top four swimmers (Haas, <strong>Conor<\/strong> <strong>Dwyer<\/strong>, <strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan<\/strong> <strong>Lochte<\/strong>) created an added-up time of 7:03.72, a half-second slower than the composite from Tuesday night\u2019s races. Lochte\u2019s fourth-place time of 1:46.62 would have beaten just one man in the 2021 final. Sure, the Americans were always going to add Michael Phelps to the squad at the Olympics, but they won gold in Rio by almost 2.5 seconds with Phelps contributing a 1:45.26 anchor split, which was nothing special.<\/p>\n<p>The American men are underdogs for Tokyo, at risk of missing the medal podium in an Olympic relay for the first time ever, because especially Great Britain but also Russia and Australia have made such massive strides in the 200 free. Smith, Haas, Kibler and Seliskar swam well in Omaha, but they will need a lot more to avoid the 2021 800 free relay team becoming the group with the ignominious title of the one that broke the remarkable relay medal streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Men in Trouble for Men\u2019s 800 Free Relay at Olympics Outside of the boycotted 1980 Olympics, the American men have won a medal in every single swimming relay ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":477266,"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":[3,122077,17,7],"tags":[72101,25422,31607,35724,60848,24850,41402,17020,27596,53502,34442,72926,6302,49564,19138,66654,32647,60856],"class_list":["post-477251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","category-commentary","category-usa","tag-2020-olympic-swimming-trials","tag-andrew-seliskar","tag-blake-pieroni","tag-caeleb-dressel","tag-carson-foster","tag-conor-dwyer","tag-drew-kibler","tag-duncan-scott","tag-jack-conger","tag-kieran-smith","tag-kyle-chalmers","tag-martin-malyutin","tag-michael-phelps","tag-patrick-callan","tag-ryan-lochte","tag-tom-dean","tag-townley-haas","tag-zach-apple"],"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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