Articles by Andrew Mering

What Swimswam Readers Predict at the Olympics: Pick ‘Em Analysis

Unsurprisingly, Katie Ledeckt is our readers’ favorite in the 400 and 800. Only one race didn’t feature an over-50-percent choice.

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European Sports Books Release Olympic Swimming Odds

The odds in this article are provided for entertainment purposes only. If you have strong opinions about who’s going to…

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Is a Late U.S. Olympic Trials a Disadvantage?

The U.S. Olympic Trials are frequently criticized for being much closer to the Olympics than the trials meets of many…

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It’s Been 116 Years Since the U.S. Has Had No 18 & Unders on Olympic Swim Team

Katie Ledecky is the youngest member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team (again). At 19, she is the oldest youngest-member…

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Fun Facts

Now that Trials are over, we can comb over the results in detail. Thanks to Barry Revzin who sent us the…

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Olympic Trials “Bethany Galat All Stars”

There has been a ton of coverage of all the newly minted Olympians (and deservedly so), but there were many…

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Underdogs Finke and Cooper Get Second Swims; Day 7 Performance Stats

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska SwimSwam Preview Links and…

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Andrew Liang’s 37 Place Jump Highlights Day 6 Prelim Performance Stats

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska SwimSwam Preview Links and…

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Day 5 Prelims Performance Stats

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska SwimSwam Preview Links and…

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Day 4 Prelims Performance Stats

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska SwimSwam Preview Links and…

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Day 3 Prelims Performance Stats

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska SwimSwam Preview Links and…

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2016 U.S Olympic Trials Day 2 Prelims Performance Statistics

Day two of the 2016 U.S Olympic Trials prelims is complete, and by the standard of 2012, swimmers were better at dropping time today than yesterday.

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Olympic Trials Day 1 Finals Performance Statistics

Bethany Galat and Brandon Fiala had the biggest time drops of anyone yesterday.

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Olympic Trials Session 1 Performance

Session 1 of the Olympic Trials is in the books. There was a lot of great swimming, but most swimmers…

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Olympic Trials Predictions (With Math!) Part 2

This post is a follow up to this one. If you haven’t seen it yet, go read that one first….

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