2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Post-Mortem: How Did Our Readers Do?
A majority of our readers did not pick Sarah Sjöström or Pan Zhanle to win the 100 freestyle, despite both of them holding the respective world records.
2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Day 9: A Late Surge Wins it All
Like Team USA on the medal table, a late surge from Sports Lover wins it all with 631 points. Congratulations!
Gretchen Walsh Ties Sarah Sjostrom for Fastest 100 Fly Relay Split (55.03)
Walsh now holds two of the top five fastest 100 fly relay splits in history, including her 55.18 from the mixed medley relay.
2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Day 8: Somehow, Shakeups Send Shockwaves
Only 11 players picked Paige Madden to medal in the 800 free, a trend for most of the events tonight.
Caeleb Dressel’s Individual Paris Olympic Campaign Concludes: “I trained to go faster.”
Dressel went through a range of emotions in the pool and on the deck last night, but spoke to the press after the 100 fly semifinals.
2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Day 7: A Near-Perfect Entry Wins the Day
Caeleb Dressel’s miss in the 50 free is the only incorrect entry for our top player; his miss in the 100 fly finals could shakeup the final rankings.
2024 Paris Olympics: #8 Seed Thomas Heilman (USA) Misses 100 Fly Semifinals
Heilman was over a second back of his personal best to finish 18th overall, 0.2-seconds away from a semifinals berth.
2024 Paris Olympics: Paige Madden Clocks PB in 800 Free Heats to Become #5 American All-Time
Madden clocked 8:18.48 to cut over two seconds from her previous best of 8:20.71, which she swam at Trials to qualify for this event.
2024 Paris Olympics: 2x D3 NCAA Champion Jesse Ssengonzi Lowers Own Ugandan Record in 100 Fly
Ssengonzi just wrapped up his senior year at UChicago, capping off his NCAA season with an NCAA record in the 100-yard butterfly.
2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Day 6: Backstroke is the Hardest 200 (To Predict)
Out of the three individual 200s that swam finals today, the men’s 200 backstroke was the hardest for our readers to predict.
2024 Paris Olympic: Maxime Grousset Out, Josh Liendo In For Men’s 50 Free Final
Grousset qualified 6th in 21.60 in tonight’s semifinals. Both Liendo and Grousset are entered in the 100 fly tomorrow morning as the top 2 seeds.
2024 Paris Olympics: Ariarne Titmus Splits 1:52.95 on Australian Anchor (Day 6 Relay Analysis)
Titmus is the only woman in history to split 1:52 in a 4×200 free relay, and she added a third split to her resume during tonight’s final.
Jordan Crooks Lowers Own Cayman Islands National Record; First to Make 50 Free Semis
Crooks scorched 21.51 to break his own record by 0.22-seconds and qualify 2nd. He is the first athlete from the Cayman Islands to make a 50 free semi.
Thomas Fannon Breaks Irish 50 Free National Record in Heats, 21.79
Ireland continues their strong showing at the Olympics as Fannon will mark their first ever semis appearance in the men’s 50 free.
2024 Summer Swimming Pick ‘Em Day 5: The Epic Highs and Lows of Predicting Fast Swimming
It was nearly a perfect split between readers who picked Kristof Milak (476) and Leon Marchand (475) to win the men’s 200 butterfly.
