The dates for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials were approved in a meeting off the Board of Directors on Tuesday. The event will be hosted in Omaha, Nebraska from June 21-28, 2020. That means that, even with the inclusion of 2 new events (the women’s 1500 and men’s 800; the mixed medley isn’t held at the Olympic Trials), USA Swimming will keep the trials meet at 8 days.
That means at least a 3-day overlap in the city with the NCAA’s Division I baseball College World Series, which runs from June 12th through June 23rd or 24th (depending on how the bracket plays out). In 2016, the championship game was rain-delayed, and ticket-holders to the swimming trials received free admission to watch the game.
The pool swimming events at the 2020 Olympic Games will run from July 25th through August 2nd in Tokyo. That means a 27-day gap from the end of the American trial to the start of competition at the Olympics. That’s shorter than the gap between events in 2016, but about the same as the gap between events in 2012.
2008-2020 Trials vs. Olympics
| Year | Trials End Date | Olympics Start Date (Swimming) | Gap | Trials Host | Olympics Host | Distance Between Hosts | Time Zones Between Hosts |
| 2020 | June 28th | July 25th | 27 days | Omaha | Tokyo | 6060 miles | 14 hours |
| 2016 | July 3rd | August 6th | 34 days | Omaha | Rio | 5573 miles | 2 hours |
| 2012 | July 2nd | July 28th | 26 days | Omaha | London | 4269 miles | 6 hours |
| 2008 | July 6th | August 9th | 34 days | Omaha | Beijing | 6,472.73 miles | 13 hours |
2020 will be the 4th-straight occasion where the event is hosted at the 18,000-seat CHI Health Center in Omaha. Omaha was announced as host in May of 2017. Time standards for the 2020 Olympic Trials will be announced via a live webcast this Thursday – after the summer’s championship meets, which is later than they’ve traditionally been released.
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Frankly, I’m tired of Omaha. . . .
Dont go then.
ok
Indianapolis
. . .The ultimate “non-answer”. . .
I second that.
Central location…small town with a big city feel…welcoming hosts…great facility…hard to beat – can you name another option?
San Antonio… cheaper to get to, to stay, etc. Omaha jacks up prices so a family has to spend over 2 grand to go watch their kid swim- and that’s on the cheap end
San Antonio would be another GREAT place!
DALLAS! Virtually accessible by air non-stop for tons of places; several great 50-meter facilities; hotels everywhere with prices that are NOT jacked up for big events; food, museums, major sports, heck, IT’S TEXAS!
Omaha – nice people; decent facility – otherwise, pretty zero. . . . and baseball NCAA D1 is goin’ to make a mess, you watch!
There isn’t a mess ..the traffic control is excellent..San Antonio would be toasty in late June
Dean Farris’s house! His mom has a freezer full of frozen yogurt and they can run multiple garden hoses for drinking water.
Well said, Joe Bagodonuts- Dean Farris’s mum for President!
Would have been better if they did it around 34 days like the other past couple Olympics. Give those athletes more time to double taper and adjust to the host city time change and event times.
Except any earlier and they really collide with the baseball tournament. By the time the trials start, baseball is down to the last few teams. No way there are enough hotel rooms earlier when 8 teams are still playing. It’s a good reason to look at other host cities, as good as Omaha has been.
All the more reason to move it to a state that supports men’s collegiate swimming
Meh. It always seems to work out. One more day than for London, and that turned out fine.
London’s closer than Tokyo, tho. Basically an entire extra day of traveling.
That said, it’ll prolly be fine.
Going there is probably because of a great financial situation that the swimming membership has no knowledge of what it is specifically. Just calculate roughly plenty to go around. Like how are Nattional sites awarded?