The lights don’t get much brighter for swimming in the United States than the Olympic Trials, which leads to increased attention on the sport not just nationally, but globally, and therefore things can get crazy in the SwimSwam comments.
Over nine days and 17 sessions, there were a total of 17,500 comments published on SwimSwam’s live recaps of the U.S. Trials, averaging 1,029 comments per session (and 1,256 for finals).
Things peaked during Day 2 finals, which received 1,711 comments—that session included the incredible three-way battle between Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Regan Smith in the women’s 100 fly final, Carson Foster getting redemption in the men’s 400 IM, and we also saw Katie Ledecky in action and a swim-off for the last lane in the final of the men’s 200 free.
While following along with all of the action last week, SwimSwam contributor Matt Rees compiled some of the comments that stood out to him, whether they be amusing, insightful, or both.
Find’s Matt’s top comments from the Trials below:
PBJSwimming – Got some chlorine in my eyes after GW’s race. 800 miles from Indy.
Mr Sandals – Imagine submitting a time off request at work and for the reason you get to say “Olympics”. Lmao.
WV Swammer – Got married yesterday, watching Olympic trials with my wife today. Pretty freakin stoked right now.
WV Swammer – The American record from 3 days ago would’ve gotten 4th, what in the world
Garbage Yardage – Michael Andrew Swim Academy about to offer some deep discounts.
Juan Cena – Does Shaine Casas know there isn’t a B final at this meet?
SwimCoach – Interesting dichotomy in the swim-off. Diehl graduates HS early to get to College to train for this Summer. Shackell left early in his Freshman year of college to go back home to his HS club to train for this Summer.
Beginner Swimmer at 25 – Hunter Armstrong looks like the kinda guy who stays up every night playing World of Warcraft door dashing McDonalds all day
Cleo Lemon – For those who didn’t see it this morning, Siroky is a HOCKEY PLAYER who just took up swimming full time recently. Guess you could call that a Stanley Cup level performance
Steve Nolan – Reply to Cleo Lemon – Or if you subscribe to the SwimSwam podcast: https://swimswam.com/100-breaststroker-mckenzie-siroky-on-choosing-di-hockey-over-college-swimming/
I miss the ISL (go dawgs) – Ryan Murphys turns could create world peace
jeff – 2 days ago Volmer had the 5th fastest 100 fly in US history and now she has the 12th
Barbossa Andrew 🐍 – I wish handing out the sharpie to the olympians was my job
swim1234 – Regan outsplit Julian on the last 50
RealCrocker5040 – Amazing job by Shackell but it’s worth noting that Mary T Meagher’s time from 42 years ago would have made the final in 2nd
hin qaiyang – Many breaststrokers do more dolphin kicks on their pullout than Diehl does in the 2 back
Nick B – Congratulations to Melvin Stewart, whose best time from Perth in 1991 would’ve placed 4th in tonight’s 200 fly final.
Shaddy419 – Death, taxes, Cal 200 backstrokers
nickp – Katie Ledecky’s winning time from Tokyo: 15:37.34. Katie Ledecky’s winning time tonight: 15:37.35
1500m Free Semifinals – Aight, I’m logging off and heading to RunRan.
You can find all of the live recaps below:
Four years from now, the Olympics will be back in the USA!!!
Expect to see Team USA to win many medals in Paris 2024.
Should’ve provided links to the comments so we could go see their context/discussion around them!
I stand by it. Ryan Murphy’s turns are a thing of beauty.
I pulled a Pieroni and got onto the list in the last spot. Phew.
I made this one in the same way people that hold up signs at football games that say
CAN’T
BEAT THE
STEELERS
do.
I’ll take it.
longtime lurker, not frequent commenter, thanks for the shoutout!
We’ve done better in the past. We need some fresh Memes.
#blessed for the shoutout