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With Huge Time Drop, Honduras\u2019s Julimar Avila Fills Final 200 Fly Semis Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Julimar Avila saw the empty chair, smiled and let herself dream for just a moment.<\/p>\n

Avila understood the math, even without the benefit of the biology degree the 24-year-old earned at Boston University. The preliminaries of the women\u2019s 200 butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics, through the oddities of athlete specialization and the limits of the COVID-19 pandemic, had just 17 entrants on Tuesday night<\/a>. Sixteen would advance to the semifinals Wednesday morning. Avila, representing Honduras and in the Olympics via a Universality spot, was the 17th seed by a wide distance, her seed time 10 seconds slower than the nearest competitor. Even odds that were seemingly in her favor, weren\u2019t really.<\/p>\n

And then, as Avila waited in the ready room before the second heat of three, she spied a chair that remained unoccupied. And when that chair didn\u2019t fill with Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> muscled frame, and the block that was supposed to be the Hungarian\u2019s stood empty after the walk out, Avila knew that roughly two minutes of legal butterfly stood between her and an Olympic semifinal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, oh my gosh, it really can happen,\u201d Avila said. \u201cHonestly, I went in and really wanted to work on my times and I know all the hard work I\u2019ve put in, no matter what the result is, if I made semifinals or not, I was going to be working toward improving my time. I was just happy that time. Making semis is just icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avila\u2019s time \u2013 and she knows this as much as anyone \u2013 isn\u2019t on the level that would usually make an Olympic semifinal. But by finishing 16th Tuesday night<\/a> in 2:15.36, she’s in there. The time is almost eight seconds slower than top seeded Zhang Yufei of China. But Avila has whittled the distance between here and the next closest swimmer from 10 seconds to just three. She’s the first Honduran swimmer to make a semifinal and the first Universality swimmer to ever emerge from heats.<\/p>\n

Whatever the time says, the effort that got Avila there, of surviving a contact-tracing quarantine in Tokyo that has kept her mostly out of the water, of setting a best time and cutting three seconds off her seed time, was nothing short of Olympian.<\/p>\n

Avila\u2019s journey<\/a> is familiar for a Universality swimmer. She was born in the United States, her father, Julio Avila<\/strong>, having emigrated from Honduras to study at UMass Amherst and play soccer. He\u2019s the long-time golf coach<\/a> at Emmanuel College in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The youngest of four children, Julimar Avila swam at Weston High School, setting a pair of state records and leading the Wildcats to a state title after 12 runner-up finishes. She went to BU<\/a>, twice landing on the All-Patriot League first team and swimming a leg on the school record-setting 400 free relay.<\/p>\n

After graduating in 2019, she set her sights on Tokyo, needing only to bridge a one-year gap. As a holder of seven Honduran records \u2013 in breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle and the individual medley \u2013 she would be a natural choice for Universality.<\/p>\n

But one year became two. And pools that were reliably, unthinkably open became off limits. And training in a pool became excursions out into Walden Pond to do far more exertion than Henry David Thoreau ever managed there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, and I really started because a friend was going and I wanted some company because I actually have a fear of open water,\u201d Avila said. \u201cSo the fact that my friend was there, I was like, I\u2019ll join.\u201d<\/p>\n

The training worked. Avila set a slew of national records at the Puerto Rican International Open in May, and again at the CCCAN Championships in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But all that work nearly got derailed when she traveled to Tokyo on a flight with Dallas with a suspected COVID-19 case. The contact tracing limited her movements for 14 days, backdated to July 13, and while she wasn\u2019t strictly quarantined, she had to limit interactions and travel outside her hotel. That meant days were swimming as off limits, with only occasional training when safe transport could be arranged.<\/p>\n

Tuesday marked Day 14 and the end of restrictions. As celebrations go, Avila\u2019s was pretty good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking to my coach and he was like, \u2018you know what, everything happens for a reason. Take it in stride and stay calm. And the fact that you\u2019re here, cherish it,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s true, I\u2019m grateful no matter what. To be here is great.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for that final, Avila enters with no expectations. She\u2019s already accomplished more than she would\u2019ve dreamed in Tokyo, in terms of placement and time. So she\u2019ll be swimming freely and enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am just so happy with the result,\u201d she said. \u201cTomorrow I\u2019m just going to swim and put my heart out again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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