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Los Angeles Schedule Forces Choice for Summer McIntosh<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of options for Summer McIntosh when it comes to international meets. She\u2019s won significant international medals in seven different events already in her career, and she\u2019s still just 19.<\/p>\n

The target for Los Angeles is five individual events<\/a> after she won three individual golds and one silver in Paris in 2024. But part of the choice will be taken out of her hands.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s release of the swimming schedule<\/a> for the 2028 Olympics lands the 200 butterfly and 800 freestyle on the same day, a conflict that likely forces the Canadian wunderkind to choose one or the other.<\/p>\n

McIntosh swam four individuals events and the finals of three relays at each the Paris Olympics and 2023 World Championships. She shifted that to five individual events and one relay<\/a> at Worlds in 2025. If she\u2019s going to chase eight medals, it will take three relays.<\/p>\n

McIntosh is little unlucky in the alignment of the 800 free heats and 200 fly heats on the same day and at the end of the meet, on the eighth and penultimate day. If she were to swim in the women\u2019s medley relay, she\u2019d already be facing a double in the last finals session on the afternoon of the closing day of the games. (In Paris, the finals overlapped a day earlier, on Day 8, without the medley relay.)<\/p>\n

McIntosh swam the 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM at the Paris Olympics. She won gold in both IMs and the 200 fly and silver in the 400 free.<\/p>\n

At the 2025 World Championships, she swept gold medals in the 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM to go with bronze in the 800 free. The 2023 World Championship program was the 200 and 400 free, 200 fly and 400 IM.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles<\/a>, she could get the 400 free out of the way on the opening day, with prelims and finals. The women\u2019s 400 free relay is also on that first night, but McIntosh won\u2019t have a swim on the second day. (Prelims on that second day \u2013 Sunday, July 23 \u2013 are the 100 free and 100 breast for women.)<\/p>\n

The 400 IM is similarly straightforward with prelims and finals on Day 3. She could have the 200 free prelims and semis on Day 4, then the morning off on Day 5 before the 200 free final.<\/p>\n

The 200 IM begins on Day 6; like in the men\u2019s competition, it\u2019s grouped with the 200 back, which takes a dark horse event out of the picture for her. Day 6 also has the 800 free relay final at night.<\/p>\n

On Day 7, she would likely eschew the mixed medley relay prelims in the morning to prep for the 200 IM final at night.<\/p>\n

Day 8 brings the 200 fly and 800 free heats. The 200 fly has a semifinal that night. If McIntosh had inkling of attempting the double earlier in the meet, surely the women\u2019s medley relay obviates that temptation. The final finals session is a shortened one, starting at 3 p.m. Pacific time ahead of the Closing Ceremony at 6. It\u2019s the women\u2019s 50 free, women\u2019s 200 fly, women\u2019s 800 free relay than the medley relays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"