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\u2018We\u2019re Learning Through This:\u2019 U.S. Coaches Reflect on Mixed Medley Relay Flop<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a lot on the minds of Team USA coaches Greg Meehan<\/strong> and Dave Durden<\/strong> when they collected their staff to weigh options for the mixed medley relay.<\/p>\n

The beauty of the new addition to the Olympic relay gauntlet lies in its machinations. It\u2019s not straightforward like the men\u2019s and women\u2019s medleys \u2013 more or less, your \u201cB\u201d 100-stroke swimmers in prelims and \u201cA\u201d swimmers in finals. Instead, with two men and two women, it\u2019s about maximizing gains and limiting losses.<\/p>\n

So even before Lydia Jacoby\u2019<\/strong>s goggles \u2013 and the team\u2019s wheels \u2013 fell off, there was a lot of back-of-the-envelope math in play to vet the possibilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran analytics, we had conversations about what we were feeling in our gut,\u201d Meehan, the U.S. women’s head coach, said at a media availability after the final session of the Games Sunday. \u201cWe\u2019re also evaluating that through the timeline of events, all of that stuff. We were disappointed we didn\u2019t walk away with a medal, but certainly not from those four giving anything less than their very best. That\u2019s on us as coaches to get better as we move forward the next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Great Britain mixed medley relay – from left, James Guy, Adam Peaty, Kathleen Dawson and (in the water) Anna Hopkin – got the race plan right on the way to gold and a world record; Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

Ultimately, the watch said the U.S. made the wrong decision, the foursome of Ryan Murphy,<\/strong> Jacoby, Torri Huske<\/strong> and Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> finishing out of the medals in fifth, an exceedingly rare occurrence for the program that is the gold standard on relays.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain amount left unsaid by Meehan and Durden, for coaching reasons. The prevailing logic is that you want to limit losses on the slowest stroke and capitalize on the comparatively smaller time difference on the fastest stroke. For seven of the eight finalists<\/a>, that meant deploying a male breaststroker and a female freestyler, with the gender speed difference basically a wash on backstroke and butterfly.<\/p>\n

The two main problems were personnel and scheduling. The only 100-meter stroke in which the men didn\u2019t medal was breast (Michael Andrew<\/strong> was a distant fourth). On the women\u2019s side, the U.S. didn\u2019t medal in the 100 fly (Huske was fourth by .01) and 100 free (Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong> was eighth). That puts men\u2019s breast and women\u2019s free as the clear weaknesses relative to the field.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters was that Andrew and Weitzeil had the semis of the 50 free just minutes before, which is a challenging double for the non-Dressel sector of humanity.<\/p>\n

So already with tough choices for the format, the scheduled forced the coaches\u2019 hand further.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we looked at it different knowing the result,\u201d Durden said. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have done that. We would\u2019ve said, ok let\u2019s rethink this and make sure we\u2019re using the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Generally, the swimmers selected did their jobs. Murphy tied Italy\u2019s Thomas Ceccon<\/strong> for the fastest 100 back time in 52.23. Of four female butterfliers, Huske had the second-fastest split at 56.27, trailing only Zhang Yufei<\/strong> of China. Jacoby, who won the 100 breast in 1:04.95, turned in a respectable 1:05.09 given the goggle mishap<\/a> and the fact that, as Weitzel said, they basically had to teach her how to do a relay pickup at camp in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

But Jacoby\u2019s time ceded more than eight seconds to otherworldly Adam Peaty\u2019s<\/strong> 56.78 and the gold-winning Brits<\/a>. That\u2019s not on Jacoby as much as it\u2019s a design flaw of the team architecture.<\/p>\n

Durden said they didn\u2019t look at what other teams were doing, and that bucking the early conventions wasn\u2019t intentional so much as a product of their situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, we looked at what we had available and what we felt as a coaching staff was going to generate the best performance for us, and that\u2019s where we went,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily know that we stepped back and said, other countries are doing it this way. \u2026 I don\u2019t think at any point in that relay did we not have confidence in those four going out there and giving us a great performance, and we did. At the end of the day, it\u2019s on us to step back and reevaluate how we do that, who we manage that, how we manage the swims over a nine-day meet, and just do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. has gotten it right before. It won the mixed medley relay at the 2017 World Championships (in a then world record 3:38.56) with Lilly King<\/strong> swimming breaststroke and Simone Manuel<\/strong> anchoring, and took silver in 2019 with a similar lineup. They won silver in 2015 with Murphy and Kevin Cordes<\/strong> manning the front half; the top four finishers in that race sent the men out for the first two legs.<\/p>\n

Time may prove that there is no singular right way to build a mixed medley relay. But the U.S. certainly hit on one of the wrong ways to do it in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re learning through this,\u201d Meehan said. \u201cIt\u2019s still a relatively new thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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