2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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- Women’s 200 fly – Final
- Men’s 200 back – Final
- Men’s 50 free- Semifinals
- Women’s 200 breast – Final
- Women’s 200 back – Semifinals
- Men’s 200 IM – Semifinals
- Women’s 4×200 free relay – Final
Canada’s Summer McIntosh will search for another gold medal tonight as she enters as the top seed in the 200 fly with a 2:04.87. The teenager already won gold in the women’s 400 IM and silver in the 400 free. Regan Smith of the US won silver in Tokyo and enters as the #2 seed with a 2:05.39. Smith has a busy night as she also has semifinals of the 200 back.
Defending Olympic Champion Zhang Yufei of China led the way through prelims but fell to 3rd in semifinals with a 2:06.09. She swam a 2:03.86 to win in Tokyo and looks to repeat on the podium.
The men’s 200 back final will feature no returning podium members. 2023 World Champion Hubert Kos leads the way after a 1:55.96 in semifinals. Switzerland’s Roman Mityukov is the #2 seed after a 1:56.05 in semifinals and will look to put the country on the medal table. The US has won a medal in this event in every Olympics since 1996 and Keaton Jones will have a chance to continue the streak while swimming out of lane 7 after a 1:56.39 last night.
Australia’s Cam McEvoy entered the 50 free prelims this morning as the top seed and cruised into semifinals with the fastest time after a 21.32. McEvoy will be next to defending silver medalist Florent Manaudou of France who swam a 21.54 this morning. Defending gold medalist Caeleb Dressel will look to move up after this morning’s time of a 21.91 and will swim out of lane 1 in the first heat tonight.
Kate Douglass of the US and Tatjana Smith of South Africa battled it out in semifinals of the women’s 200 breast and enter as the top two seeds after swimming times of 2:19.74 and 2:19.94 respectively. Smith set a World Record in the event during her win in Tokyo and will look to repeat here. Douglass is in search of her first individual medal in Paris and also will look to break her American Record tonight.
Tes Schouten had the 3rd fastest time in semifinals with a 2:22.74 and won the event in February at 2024 Worlds. Lilly King of the US won silver in Tokyo and is also in the final. She will swim out of lane 7 with a 2:23.25 entry time.
Peng Xuwei of China posted the top time in prelims of the 200 back with a 2:08.29. She will be next to defending champion and current World Record holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia who swam a 2:08.89 this morning. McKeown will look to sweep the backstroke events at the 2nd Olympics in a row after already winning the 100 this week.
Former World Record holder in the event Regan Smith will look to make the final in the event and will swim out of lane 3 in the first heat tonight after a 2:09.61 this morning. Smith has a busy night as she swims in the final of the 200 fly at the start of the session. Next to Smith tonight is defending silver medalist Kylie Masse of Canada who swam a 2:08.54 in prelims.
Daiya Seto of Japan posted the top time in the men’s 200 IM with a 1:57.48 and will look to make the podium after finishing 4th in Tokyo. He will swim next to Leon Marchand tonight as Marchand posted a 1:57.86 this morning and will look to win his 4th individual gold after already winning the 400 IM, 200 fly, and 200 breast. Defending silver medalist Duncan Scott posted the 2nd fastest time of the morning with a 1:57.77.
The women’s 4×200 free relay looks to be Australia’s win after posting the top time of the morning by almost 7 seconds and still have two swimmers in their reserves. The race looks to be for silver and bronze as the US and China have numerous swimmers that did not race this morning.
Hubert’s going 1:52
He won’t even go better then 1:53.5
Let’s go Summer!!!!
I have a gut feeling Katie Ledecky will need to pull a rabbit out of the hat in the final of W 4 x 200 FR-R just for a silver medal.
If bingjie is good maybe but she’s been bad lately
Hoping Kate Douglass pulls through tonight
Hello to my fellow anxious overthinkers. The US medal count situation felt pretty dire to me after day 4, but I after looking through the rest of schedule it isn’t as impossible as I thought. The odds may not be great, but there is a plausible pathway.
Currently the gold tally is at AUS 4, USA 3. The gimmes left for AUS include the W 4×200, M 50 free, and W 200 back. For the US, it’s W 800 and W medley relay. That adds up to AUS 7, USA 5. But after those gimmes there is a substantial difference in the remaining gold medal chances.
AUS: 2 gold chances in addition to the 7 predicted above
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… Read more »While I’m somewhat confident with KL in the 800, i think there’s a decent chance she could be upset by Titmus. We”ll see..
I did think about putting that in the gold medal chance category, but I’m a little more confident after her 1500. Even so, the US is more likely to win it than AUS so I would have given it to the US in the theoretical medal count.
I think Australia ends up with 7. I don’t see them beating China or US on the mixed medley. I think they get one gold between the M50 and the W200IM, but anything can happen in the 50, especially when you are relying on Cam McEvoy, and McKeown has 3 swimmers breathing down her neck, none of whom have looked particularly bad so far. I’m sure they’ll get one of those, but not sure about both
I think US gets both medley relays, women’s 800, and the mixed medley relay to tie it up.
There is also a statistic that for every Olympics since 1996, the winner of Women’s 400 IM and 200 IM have been the same person. But still, streaks can always end.
Yeah I’ve come to a similar conclusion. USA has had many close silver medals, but many of those were events USA wasn’t favored to win anyway. Australia has lost a couple gold medal chances they were favorites in as well. Still none of those gold chances are given, but I agree that USA still getting the most golds is not a long shot.
I also went through what the total medal count could be for the US and it’s not promising to hit 30 (someone on Twitter said it’s never been below 30 before). If the US gets one medalists in the remaining events they are expected to medal in, the total will be 28 (4 remaining relays, W 800, M1500, W 200 fly, W 200 breast, W 200 back, W 200 IM, M 200 IM). Would need everything to go as planned plus pick up two extra medalists to hit 30 (most likely events to get 2 on the podium are W 200 back, W 200 IM, M 200 IM, or Jones medals in the 200 back). Seems unlikely IMO
Why would they put Gemmell last? She’s our slowest leg!
she split 1:54 at Pan Pacs so we’ll see
Because in this pool you want to be the fastest at the start. So the bad pool doesn’t affect you with waves
I foresee the individual gold medal drought continue for the male contingent of USA Swimming. How about one? Is it too much to ask for?
1500 our best shot
YANG Junxuan
LI Bingjie
GE Chutong
LIU Yaxin
O’CALLAGHAN Mollie
PALLISTER Lani
THROSSELL Brianna
TITMUS Ariarne
WEINSTEIN Claire
MADDEN Paige
LEDECKY Katie
GEMMELL Erin
HARVEY Mary-Sophie
JANSEN Ella
McINTOSH Summer
BROUSSEAU Julie