{"id":502795,"date":"2022-04-15T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=502795"},"modified":"2022-04-15T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:44:47","slug":"emma-mckeon-and-kyle-chalmers-to-accept-wild-card-nominations-for-birmingham-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/emma-mckeon-and-kyle-chalmers-to-accept-wild-card-nominations-for-birmingham-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers To Accept Wild Card Nominations For Birmingham Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers To Accept Wild Card Nominations For Birmingham Commonwealth Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a major shift in Australian National Swim Team selection policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-hail-the-new-queen-australias-emma-mckeon-wins-100m-freestyle-gold-cate-campbell-a-proud-bronzed-aussie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic gold medallists<\/a> <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Chalmers <\/strong>will accept \u201cwild card\u201d nominations onto this year\u2019s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimming.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swimming Australia<\/a> has written into its policy that Tokyo Olympic medallists would be given an opportunity to swim at the Games without contesting next month\u2019s Selection Trials in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The Trials for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games will be contested at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre from May 18-22.\u00a0The World Championships will be held in Budapest from June 18 to July 3 with the Birmingham Commonwealth Games from July 28 to August 8.<\/p>\n<p>While McKeon and Chalmers won\u2019t swim the Trials, their fellow Olympic medallists from Tokyo, <strong>Kaylee McKeown, Ariarne Titmus, <\/strong>and<strong> Zac Stubblety Cook <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will all contest the meet while\u00a0 <strong>Jack McLoughlin <\/strong>is also expected to swim.<\/p>\n<p>But Titmus will not swim World Championships while McKeown, Stubblety-Cook and McLoughlin will be available for both meets.<\/p>\n<p>Australian National Head Coach <strong>Rohan Taylor<\/strong> has confirmed the change to <em>Swimming World<\/em>, saying: \u201cIn our criteria we have written in that Olympic medallists will have the opportunity and be invited to be nominated for their events at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmma will not swim the Trials so she will not swim at the World Championships but she will swim at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAriarne will swim the Trials but she won\u2019t go to Worlds. She will target the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur World Championship team will see a group of females that will be looking at an opportunity to make their mark and to test the depth. We will be tested on our depth, which will be good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Kyle won\u2019t be doing Trials at this point and he will be looking to join the team for Commonwealth Games so Kyle has a spot on the team, (leaving two spots available in the 100m freestyle in Birmingham).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedallists will have a spot on the team in the events where they won individual medals in Tokyo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKeon won gold in the 50 and 100m freestyle and bronze in the 100m butterfly, while Chalmers won silver in the 100m freestyle \u2013 so there will only be two available spots on those events for Commonwealth Games nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The policy shift is a reward for those individual medallists from Tokyo in a particularly busy year and a year thrown into disarray when the Fukuoka World Championships were replaced late by Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has been steadfast in its National Team Selection Policy, particularly when former head coach, the late Don Talbot took over the Australian team for his final stint in 1989 \u2013 with a \u201cno Trials no swim policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that policy has remained in stone through the <strong>Leigh Nugent, Alan Thompson <\/strong>and<strong> Jacco Verhaeren<\/strong> reigns \u2013 but with a shift in policy always on the drawing board to match the competition season.<\/p>\n<p>The pathway through to Paris has begun and Taylor wants his best possible team for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Budapest will see the Dolphins without <strong>Cate Campbell<\/strong> and <strong>Bronte Campbell<\/strong>, <strong>Emily Seebohm<\/strong> and now <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Chalmers \u2013 <\/strong>with the Campbell girls and Seebohm taking 2022 off.<\/p>\n<p>McKeon is now back in full training under coach Michael Bohl on the Gold Coast, after enjoying a well deserved break from the pool post her record breaking medal haul in Tokyo, to ensure she can be refreshed for her third Commonwealth Games as she sets her sights on 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