2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
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Earlier today, 8th seed Tyler Clary scratched out of the 400 IM final, pushing up Abrahm Devine of Stanford into the final. Two more have scratched out of the final: Josh Prenot and Michael Weiss.
Prenot, who finished 6th this morning in 4:14.19, also cracked the minute mark in the 100 breast– he tied for the third-fastest time in that this morning with a 59.76. The semifinals take place tonight, so it looks like Prenot will go after an Olympic berth in that event rather than the 400 IM.
Weiss, meanwhile, finished 7th in the 400 IM this morning with a 4:15.21. He has no other races scheduled for tonight.
That makes three scratches from the 400 IM final. In addition to Devine moving up into the top 8, that also bumps up Austin Snyder of the Wolfpack Elite and NOVA of Virginia’s Charlie Swanson into the final tonight.
Snyder is a graduate of NC State, while Swanson will head to Ann Arbor in the fall to join the Michigan Wolverines for his freshman year.
I understand all three scratches and agree with them. But have there ever been three scratches from finals of the same race at Trials before? Pretty wild.
Weiss basically told all the local Wisconsin papers that his real shot at Rio was in the 2 free… It isn’t surprising to see him scratch almost everything else on his program to rest up for that.
That’s probably why Weiss scratched. The 200 free prelims and semis are tomorrow.
I wish we could edit our pick em results still when people scratch, how are we supposed to know ahead of time??
That’s the point… you don’t know. It makes the game more interesting.
Yeah that is the tough one on the pickem. I purposefully didn’t include Phelps in my 100 and 200 free picks as I think he swims prelims and maybe semis to get a time but does not swim finals.
I knew about those because the press conference and I figured, but I’m talking about Prenot basically.
I shocked by this move. I thought this was his second best shot for the team, I just don’t think he can get past Cordes, Wilson, Miller, Fink, and maybe even Andrews in the 1BR final. But hey, I don’t know the situation, so more power to him for being tactical. Maybe he has more speed than I think he does, maybe he just knows there is no way he can get past Lochte / Kalisz, so why waste the energy.
His 200 Breaststroke is going to be scary good.
Licon didn’t have much pop, but he came on really well in the last 50 and looked very good going into the 200.
Licon went a best time in the 100 by 7 tenths. I wouldn’t dismiss that. We’ll see what he goes tonight.
I think this is the right decision. Even if he doesn’t make the 100 br, he should really be focusing on the 200 br anyway.
Well this just got a lot less interesting. Basically Lochte/Kalisz confirmed.
I think Litherland has a chance but you’re probably right
It’s a shame we won’t see Prenot compete for a spot on the team, but realistically, his chances were slim with how Kalisz, Lochte, and Litherland swam in prelims. Looks like he’s taking the opportunity to work on his speed in the breast, and fine tune his stroke before the 200 later in the meet. After that 1:07.9 breast split in the 400 IM, he’s lethal.
I thought Prenot looked really good
Why on earth is a person named 50FREE watching the 400 IM?
Entertainment, of course. 🙂