{"id":480740,"date":"2021-07-05T07:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=480740"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:10:45","slug":"usa-swimming-announces-captains-for-tokyo-dressel-manuel-murphy-schmitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-announces-captains-for-tokyo-dressel-manuel-murphy-schmitt\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Swimming Announces Captains for Tokyo: Dressel, Manuel, Murphy, Schmitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Swimming has announced its national team captains for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Caeleb Dressel, Simone Manuel, Ryan Murphy<\/strong> and Allison Schmitt<\/strong> were selected as the team captains.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made on social media in a video where fellow Olympian\u00a0Hunter Armstrong <\/strong>used\u00a0card tricks to show the captains.<\/p>\n

All four captains are two-time Olympians with the exception of Schmitt, who made the team for the fourth time. All four have won gold medals.<\/p>\n

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