2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
- Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
- La Défense Arena — Paris, France
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WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – HEATS
- World Record: 15:20.48 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2018)
- World Junior Record: 15:28.36 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2014)
- Olympic Record: 15:35.35 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2021)
- 2021 Winning Time: 15:37.34
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 15:58.96
- Katie Ledecky (USA) – 15:47.43
- Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 15:51.19
- Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (FRA) – 15:52.46
- Isabel Gose (GER) – 15:53.27
- Moesha Johnson (AUS) – 16:04.02
- Li Bingjie (CHN) – 16:05.26
- Beatriz Dizotti (BRA) – 16:05.40
- Leonie Martens (GER) – 16:08.69
Katie Grimes of the US has missed tomorrow night’s final of the women’s 1500 freestyle after swimming the 10th fastest time of the morning with a 16:12.11. Grimes won silver in the event in a 1-2 finish for the US with Katie Ledecky at the 2022 World Championships.
Grimes holds a personal best time of a 15:44.89 that she swam at those 2022 Worlds for silver. Her season best stands at a 15:57.31 which she swam at a club meet in April. She came in with an entry time of a 15:56:27 which she swam at the beginning of March 2023 which made her the #7 seed heading into the meet, although #5 Lani Pallister of Australia did not swim this morning after testing positive for COVID-19.
The US had a 1-2 finish for gold in the event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the first time ever that the event was competed in at an Olympics. Katie Ledecky won gold while Erica Sullivan took home silver.
Grimes was coming off of a big night where she won silver in the women’s 400 IM. Grimes was the first athlete for the US to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after earning a spot in the women’s 10km open water swim that is scheduled to take place next week in the Seine River. She is the only athlete for the US on the women’s side to be competing in both the pool and open water event.
The not tapering until Paris statement is going to come up a lot. There are two main things wrong with that idea.
1) This implies that for maximum results, you need to go hard 100% of the time, which just isn’t true and I really don’t believe they believe that. Rest and recovery are really important not just for the body but for the mind. There is a mental fatigue in addition to muscular and joint fatigue.
2) Taper meets are great for determining how is the plan working. Are the things we are doing in training, translating into results. Without getting a taper meet, you don’t know. It is an important bench mark in a training plan.
Sandpipers in shambles rn
Ron aitken and his “no taper until paris” plan are in shambles rn
Im so glad she got her silver though.
Very strange. She should’ve made that final in the 1,500. Something odd happening – and likely out of her control.
That’s a brutal turn around. I bet her body was hurting. Did any other swimmer have that quick of a turnaround with that distance?
How does one do a 15:57 at a nothing club meet and then do the time she did today in the Olympics. Seems to me she is either sick or sand bagged it on purpose and is saving it for the open water event if they ever find non-contaminated water to swim it.
Open water already has plan B:
The lake where rowing event is held.
What is going onnnn
So many athletes seeming ‘off’ – Must be something going around the village? This feels like such a weird Olympic meet.
Because it is. It’s so pedestrian and it’s sad. I fully believe it’s not the athletes fault. Paris Olympic committee should be ashamed of themselves.
I already felt weird from opening ceremony
Something feels off about Paris Olympics.
Nothing like Rio, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, or even Athens.
I don’t tell what they’re showing you at home on TV but here Paris the Olympics have been great—except for the pool. Having a great time here and the city is really vibing!