{"id":590722,"date":"2024-07-16T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=590722"},"modified":"2024-07-16T05:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:55:51","slug":"on-his-fifth-try-dr-jeremy-bagshaw-will-see-the-olympics-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/on-his-fifth-try-dr-jeremy-bagshaw-will-see-the-olympics-now\/","title":{"rendered":"On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Bagshaw<\/strong> looked at the video board and wouldn\u2019t let himself believe it at first.<\/p>\n

For five Olympic cycles, from a 16-year-old prodigy from British Columbia in 2008 to a 32-year-old medical school graduate who\u2019d been to four World Championships, Bagshaw had chased a spot in the Olympics. It represented, he came to accept, a glaring hole in an otherwise sterling career CV.<\/p>\n

So when Bagshaw hit the wall at Canadian Olympic Trials in Toronto in May, he needed a moment to process what the board was telling him \u2013 not just for the stakes of the moment but for what seemed among his many tribulations the sheer unlikelihood of a break going his way.<\/p>\n

He saw the \u201c4\u201d next to his name, tallied up the times and saw that it all made sense to provisionally get him a spot on the 800 free relay. But he was going to need confirmation, after so many near-misses along the way, that what he was seeing was actually happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could see the four beside my name, and I wasn’t really sure,\u201d Bagshaw told Swimming World recently. \u201cAnd I looked down at the time, because looking at fifth place, it almost looked like it was the same exact time that I went. I was kind of confused, and it took me a little while.\u201d<\/p>\n