This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we dissect the 2024 Olympic Games entry list.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 0:55 Kaii Winkler Swimming for Germany
- 15:49 Women’s 100 Free
- 23:53 Women’s 200 Free
- 30:44 Matt Richards/Duncan Scott Drop Individuals
- 35:28 Reading Comments 38:10 French Relays
- 47:01 More Comments
- 49:22 Mary-Sophie Harvey Drops 100 Fly, Adds 400 Free
- 54:27 Guiliano Swimming 50-100-200 Free
Fam I need y’all to out the live breakdowns on spotify pleeeease
I second this motion! I wanted to listen on the way into work this morning.
Will SwimSwam be treating us to a “talking heads” day by day Breakdown of Events preview ? The Tokyo one’s were great entertainment value with poor old Melvin having to tip against USA …… one wonders whether he’s been forgiven uttering such heresies !
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…I spoke my mind once, told the truth, and got in trouble. Yes, we’re doing it again for all 9 days.
If you guys can, please upload it on Spotify after the fact! It’s better than YouTube for listening when there’s no WiFi 🙂
Was more thinking about the three preview Breakdowns in the week leading up but most certainly will be tuning in whenever possible.
I’d love to know what you think about Grousset’s 100free. My toxic trait is thinking that In front of his homecrowd he could win and scare the WR
I trust him to swim his best in the final, and will certainly be in the medal hunt, could even win gold if not everyone is swimming their best. But I think the 46.8 WR is a bit far away from his current PB 47.3. The world record could be lowered before the 100 final, either in the 400 free relay leadoff or in prelims/semis.
And I do wonder how tapered he was in the French trials, since he does not have to rest much to qualify, so I don’t know if those times are in-season or not.
I do think that Grousset, in general, is overlooked. He’s in the peak of his career and there’s a chance that he comes away from these Games with 3 individual medals.
The World Record? It feels a bit too far for me. But it’s within the realm of reason. He’s a much bigger guy than, say, Popovici and Pan, and I think that’s going to benefit him in that Olympic final in terms of racing. I don’t think anybody breaks that WR in Paris though.
I’m not gonna say exactly what “longshots” I’ve made actual bets on, but I am replying to this comment for some reason
The women’s 200 free is a bit unusual now – the pointy end is SO pointy that it will still be epic, but losing Summer, Steenbergen and the UK swimmers means the final itself lacks the depth the event actually has at present
UK Swimmers?
W 200 FR
McIntosh
Ledecky
Steenbergen
The comment made during the podcast about international football (soccer) eligibility rules was incorrect. Once a person has played a senior international match in an official competition ie not a friendly match, for a country’s football team, they are bound to that nation for their career. A person can change national allegiances from junior to senior, but not at senior level. There is no 4 year rule as the commenter suggested. In relation to Winkler not serving a 3 year stand down period after representing the US at Junior Pan Pacs, I believe the stand down period is only 1 year after junior representation.
Your information is out of date. As of 2021, soccer players can now change allegiances at the senior level after a waiting period: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/fifa-shapes-new-rule-to-help-players-switch-national-team/2020/08/19/d8e01c30-e226-11ea-82d8-5e55d47e90ca_story.html
Braden,
It is more nuanced than I summarised above (see the FIFA rules https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/ccab990abf45fcf6/original/ro8mje8vw98yp3rvfbmi-pdf.pdf) but the general rule is:
18. A player is tied to a “sporting nationality” where they have: 18.1 participated in a match (in full or part); and 18.2 that match was in an official competition, regardless of age category or type of football.
There are exceptions in relation to junior representation and, as per the article you linked to, recent exceptions applying to players who last played for one country before turning 21 and played 3 or fewer matches for the first country.
I also found the World Aquatics rule about a 1 year stand down period for junior… Read more »
Completely agree with comments about Kaii Winkler. If he stays with Germany then so be it. If he goes back to USA in 4 years then he’s gotten experience at Olympics. There is literally no downside and it makes no sense that some Americans are so upset.
Literally the only person in the world being negatively affected by this is Luca Armbruster and he didn’t have the A cut anyway.
Maybe we should just have the transfer portal for international representation.
Sport Nationality is only established once someone represents a country at an international meet. They can do so if they are citizens by birth etc… So, it would seem that Winkler was effectively a free agent between the two countries – and has chosen Germany. Once he competes for Germany, then he he is bound to them unless he goes through a Change of Nationality request, which includes time away from international competition and has residency requirements. Presumably this won’t be too hard for Winkler if he wants to come back to the US Team, as he is already living here and would just have to sit out a period – maybe not too hard if he focuses on yards… Read more »