2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Day 8 Prelims Warmth Sheet
With simply two occasions on faucet our final prelim session will nearly be our shortest. This morning, the ladies will contest the 50 free, the shortest distance on this system, whereas the lads will tackle the 1500 free, the longest occasion on their schedule. It’s a very yin and yang morning, however one factor in frequent between the occasions is that every can have the American report holder in it.
The morning begins with the 50 free, the place Kate Douglass is seeded 1st in 23.91, a time that she swam on the Doha Worlds this previous February. The most important risk to Douglass comes from Abbey Weitzeil. Weitzeil is simply .09 behind and sits proper on 24.00. From these two, it’s a little bit of a soar to the subsequent swimmers, as Gretchen Walsh is ranked third at 24.29, nevertheless it’ll be a good battle as Torri Huske and Simone Manuel are each inside .05 of a second.
Within the males’s 1500 free, Bobby Finke seems to be the clear favourite, at the very least primarily based on occasions, as he’s entered 19 seconds forward of the second seed, Charlie Clark. Clark, who was lucky to be scratched into the 800 remaining, will likely be seeking to flip his meet round. On paper, he’s seeded greater than eight seconds forward of Michael Brinegar, who represented the US alongside Finke in Tokyo. Besides Brinegar has scratched out of the 1500, and the 800 free runner-up Luke Whitlock might look to leap up the rankings. The seventh seed, Whitlock, dropped 5 seconds off his private finest within the 800 and may very well be within the working to double with Finke and supply the lads some much-needed doubles.
