{"id":590246,"date":"2024-06-27T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=590246"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T11:56:44","slug":"blew-away-our-expectations-lucas-oil-stadium-gets-rave-reviews-as-olympic-trials-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/blew-away-our-expectations-lucas-oil-stadium-gets-rave-reviews-as-olympic-trials-host\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blew Away Our Expectations:\u2019 Lucas Oil Stadium Gets Rave Reviews as Olympic Trials Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Blew Away Our Expectations:\u2019 Lucas Oil Stadium Gets Rave Reviews as Olympic Trials Host<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was going to take something special for <strong>Blake Pieroni<\/strong> to get back into the water. Pieroni is 28, getting married in August and balancing a commute from his training base of Bloomington to a job in Indianapolis at a private equity real estate firm.<\/p>\n<p>If there wasn\u2019t something intrinsically special on the docket \u2013 something not subject to the whims of international qualification, for instance \u2013 Pieroni wouldn\u2019t have gotten back into training last spring to mount a charge at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>That special feeling, even more than a chance to get to the Paris Games, was the opportunity to swim close to home in what Pieroni hoped would be the grandest stage his sport had ever been on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2024-us-olympic-trials-indianapolis\">Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2024\/u-s-olympic-team-trials---swimming-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The set up to this meet is so important for the growth of the sport long-term,\u201d Pieroni said Sunday in Indy. \u201cWe need to have events like this to draw in people from outside the sport. That is the only way the sport is going to grow. These events are so important. I wanted to swim in this meet because it was in Lucas Oil Stadium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pieroni is one of many swimmers to share that sentiment last week at U.S. Olympic Trials. As much as the slew of firsts and mosts set by the attendance at Lucas Oil Stadium paint of picture of the atmosphere, the swimmers also testify to their sport taking a big swing and connecting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_589964\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589964\" data-attachment-id=\"589964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/blew-away-our-expectations-lucas-oil-stadium-gets-rave-reviews-as-olympic-trials-host\/venue-1032\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter H. 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Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-589964\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas Oil Stadium\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/venue-2024-Olympic-Trials-7688-Edit-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-589964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucas Oil Stadium; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All told, more than 285,000 fans entered the gates at the home of the Indianapolis Colts. That\u2019s a 60 percent increase on the previous best for a Trials meet. Add in the luxury suites, brand activations and fan experiences, and more people than ever had their eyes on \u2013 and spent their money on \u2013 swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Among the records is twice setting the <strong>record<\/strong> for most fans at an indoor swimming meet in history, set on the meet\u2019s opening Saturday at 20,689 and broken Wednesday at 22,209. Sunday\u2019s prelims session set a record with 17,697 in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>USA Swimming President and CEO <strong>Tim Hinchey<\/strong> said that the average attendance at the Rio Olympics finals sessions of around 16,000 was an aim. The attendance at finals exceeded 18,000 on five of nine nights. No session\u2019s attendance dipped under 13,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hinchey lauded the embrace from the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana, a vital partner. After four straight Trials meets in Omaha, Nebraska, USA Swimming had the chance to sell walk-up tickets for sessions, a novel phenomenon, and managed to draw nothing but respectable crowds nightly with more than double the seats to fill.<\/p>\n<p>With the temporary pool, Lucas Oil could be the blueprint for opening Trials to other venues down the road. He talked up the need for USA Swimming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/red-carpet-treatment-of-indianapolis-olympic-trials-could-open-door-for-other-big-venues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to press the momentum off of this success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you take something to the next level, it&#8217;s hard to kind of go backwards,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think we&#8217;ve set an expectation. And there&#8217;s a lot of things we&#8217;ve learned from this, there&#8217;s a lot of things we can do better. And I&#8217;m excited about that prospect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll get backing in that regard from the swimmers. <strong>Simone Manuel\u2019s<\/strong> comments about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/simone-manuel-makes-third-olympic-team-in-trials-that-have-been-so-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her warm embrace from the crowd stood out<\/a>, certainly amplified for the veteran and three-time Olympian by the number of people. On the way to her third Olympics, Evansville native and Bloomington-trained <strong>Lilly King<\/strong> used the home-state showing as a &#8220;this is what we do&#8221; endorsement of Indiana swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Any worries about the suitability of a temporary pool never came to pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe venue is fantastic,\u201d <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> said. \u201cYou\u2019ve probably heard it a million times from people. The one thing y\u2019all don\u2019t get to partake in is the pool. It is one of the most beautiful pools I\u2019ve been in. I\u2019ve swum in some amazing venues, and being in a football stadium is awesome, but I cannot stress how beautiful, how clean, it tastes good \u2013 I know that sounds weird \u2013 everything about the water, it is a beautiful pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been awesome. I think it blew away all of our expectations,\u201d <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> said. \u201cI think just walking in the first day it was incredible to see how it came together. Once it filled up with people, it made us all even happier. It&#8217;s just really neat to walk out of that tunnel every night for finals or even for prelims races and hear the excitement that everyone has. 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