It will depend in part on how realistic people are about their chances of making the team. When I went to trials in the cut for fly was 55 low and was What is the biggest change in swimming to have world champ trials being so much faster than oly trial cuts when I swam?
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Inline Feedbacks. Reply to Ghost 2 months ago. Last edited 2 months ago by swimfast. Steve Nolan. Button Time — The recorded time started automatically and stopped by a button depressed by a lane timer when the swimmer finishes an event.
Consolations or Consols — A finals event consisting of swimmers who place in the second tier of swimmers during preliminaries. Deck Seeding — a procedure of assigning swimmers to lanes and heats immediately before each event. DQ — Disqualification. Event — A portion of a meet competition broken down by stroke and oftentimes by age, gender and relay type.
Final — The portion of a competition in which just the top swimmers of the meet compete. Heat — A portion of an event. An event may require multiple heats to determine what swimmers make finals. Heat Sheet — A sheet produced by the Clerk of Course that assigns a swimmers heat and lane placement.
IM — Slang for individual medley, an event in which the swimmer uses all four competitive strokes in the following order: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Lane lines — The dividers used to delineate the individual lanes. These are made of individual finned disks strung on a cable which rotate on the cable when hit by a wave.
The rotating disks dissipate surface tension waves in a competitive pool. Leg — A portion, normally one-quarter, of an individual event or relay event, of the event. Long Course — A pool configured for swimming with a meter long race course. World records may be set in long course and short course competition.
Here's what you need to know. The top two swimmers in each event will most likely earn spots on the Olympic team. For the and freestyle, the top six finishers will earn spots on the Olympic relay units. However, each of the top two finishers will still need to hit the Olympic qualifying time during the events to make the team. If there is only one qualifier, then another swimmer can still qualify for the team if they swim the necessary time in a FINA-approved time trial or swim meet before June That was put to the test in the men's freestyle as only Kieran Smith swam under the Olympic qualifying time of According to NBC Sports , Zane Groth is the only American male swimmer to post a time under that threshold since and he could put himself on the team despite finishing 11th in the prelims if one of the other top 10 finishers in the freestyle didn't reach that time first.
Jake Mitchell, who placed second in the event, had a time of
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