After yesterday posting the list of FINA “A” qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympic Games in London, England, FINA has now released those swimmers with “Olympic Selection Times,” more colloquially known as “B-Times”; and the numbers are shocking.
As we speculated earlier, FINA has only taken 6 swimmers with these B-standards in each individual event. This is going to leave a lot of enranged, confused, and discouraged athletes. The one example is Joe Bartoch , who was going both for a medley relay and on the basis of his 100 fly individually; however he didn’t make the cut in the 100 fly.
The list is color-coded, with green athletes having accepted their bids, and yellow athletes being athletes invited who haven’t yet accepted their invites. With 30 swimmers still having not accepted, these lists are very likely to change (including for example Mandy Loots from South Africa in the 200 fly, and Poland’s Donata Kilijanska in the women’s 800 free – both countries have said that they are only sending athletes with “A” times though).
The list is also not entirely accurate. Canada’s Stephanie Horner, invited in the 400 IM, is listed as swimming for Australia.
We’re now just waiting for the full list of Universality qualifiers, and for the US to name their roster, and the Olympic field will be set.
Read the full list of “B-Time” invitees here.
Read the list of “A-Times” here.
Read the list of “A-Times” who have accepted, by entry, here.
Completely off topic, but this photo is creepy.
Nice to see some different countries like Vietnam, Cyprus, Thailand, and I think Lichtenstein have swimmers earn their way into the field.
yes i agree. At last…. my country Indonesia, which Justin Bieber called it “some random country” lol, can find our way to the stacked field of Olympics world class swimmers (of course we can’t say “world class” to those we call “universality” swimmers 🙂 …. how come FINA allocate 150 places for them???? it’s too much.)
Sudartawa (55.32 in 100m back) is only 18 years old. I hope he doesn’t burn out, and have great career forward.
Glad to see that most of the Canadians made the team. Sad to see that they didn’t follow their criteria especially when this was the main reason they were not sending their best 4X200 relay. If they were goong to change their criteria why not change it to send the best relay as well? Dissapointed and confused with the logic but happy for those that are going.
How did they change their selection criteria? Thanks.
They used times not made at trials to qualify the swimmers. This was in conflict with what the criteria stated.