Opinion

Yanyan’s Opinions On Which Swimmers Will Make The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team

In this article, SwimSwam writer Yanyan Li breaks down some of her predictions for who will qualify on the 2024 U.S. Olympic team.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Men’s #30-21

Tom Dean took on a massive workload in 2022 and it paid off as he won 14 medals across the World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Women’s #30-21

After a quiet 2022, Olympic champion and world record holder Tatjana Schoenmaker aims to reclaim her place as the world’s top 200 breaststroker in 2023.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Men’s #40-31

Back with Bob Bowman, Chase Kalisz is coming off his fastest 400 IM showing in five years and will be tough to keep off the medal stand in Fukuoka.

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SwimSwam’s Way-Too-Early 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Picks

All seven writers making predictions picked Katie Ledecky to sweep the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 freestyle events at the 2024 U.S. Olympic team trials.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 38.2% Pick Big Ten As Most Wide Open Men’s Conference This Season

Indiana is coming in as the defending Big Ten champions after topping OSU by 93 points last season, giving the Hoosiers their fourth title in six seasons.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Women’s #40-31

Phoebe Bacon emerged as the world’s #2 200 backstroker last year, a position she’ll fight to maintain as the U.S. is absolutely loaded in the event.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Men’s #50-41

Chad Le Clos had a resurgence last year during the short course season, but it remains to be seen if he can still be one of the world’s best in long course.

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Dual Meets Are Cool Again After Spectacular Day of Racing

Dual meets are back: In one day of dual meet action, we saw five nation-leading times swum, showing that you don’t have to wait until March to be fast.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Women’s #50-41

France’s Marie Wattel is coming off a strong year that included medal performances at the World Championships and European Championships.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 48.8% Pick SEC As Most Wide Open Women’s Conference Championship

Mona McSharry and the Tennessee women aim to win their third conference title in four seasons next month, but it will be a tall task in the competitive SEC.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Men’s #75-51

Italian Alberto Razzetti will be looking to build on a successful 2022 that saw him win the European title in the men’s 400 IM.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Women’s #75-51

Rising Bosnian and Herzegovinian star Lana Pudar will be one to watch this year as she continues to move up the ranks in the women’s fly events.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023: Men’s #100-76

American Matt Fallon was one of just four men sub-2:08 in the 200 breast in 2022, landing him #76 on SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2023 rankings.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 83.7% Think Summer McIntosh Breaks A Long Course World Record In 2023

Out of the 83 percent of readers who believe she’ll break a world record, over 71 percent think McIntosh will take down the 400 IM mark first.

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