{"id":593203,"date":"2024-07-30T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=593203"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:09:56","slug":"paris-olympics-carson-foster-kieran-smith-in-for-u-s-800-free-relay-australia-adds-elijah-winnington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-carson-foster-kieran-smith-in-for-u-s-800-free-relay-australia-adds-elijah-winnington\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: Carson Foster, Kieran Smith in for U.S. 800 Free Relay; Australia Adds Elijah Winnington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris Olympics: Carson Foster, Kieran Smith in for U.S. 800 Free Relay; Australia Adds Elijah Winnington<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United States has made three changes from its morning lineup in the 800 free relay by adding Carson Foster<\/strong> and Kieran Smith<\/strong> to the final.<\/p>\n

Luke Hobson<\/strong>, bronze medalist in the men\u2019s 200 free, will lead off and hand to Foster, who won silver in the 400 individual medley. Drew Kibler<\/strong> is the lone holdover from prelims, and he\u2019ll hand off to Kieran Smith.<\/strong> Smith was just fourth at Olympic Trials and didn\u2019t make the final of the 400 free, but he\u2019s blasted 1:44s off the end for the U.S. to get silver at Worlds in 2023 and gold in 2022.<\/p>\n

Smith led off and Kibler swam second on the ill-fated Tokyo relay team that finished fourth.<\/p>\n