American swimmer Michael Andrew is heading home early from the 2024 Swimming World Cup Series, citing ongoing sickness.
“Looking forward to feeling healthy in preparations for Worlds,” Andrew said in a social media post, referring to December’s Short Course World Championships in Budapest.
Andrew currently ranks 31st in the series’ season-long standings, unable to secure any prize money in either of the first two stops while battling illness. His best finishes were 5th in the 50 breast (26.34) and 8th in the 100 IM (53.19) in Shanghai; and 6th in both the 50 breast and 100 IM.
Andrew finished 4th in the World Cup standings in 2023.
Andrew, now 25, won an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021 as the breaststroke leg of the World Record-setting American men’s 400 medley relay. He also has 1 World Championship in long course (2022 – mixed 400 medley) and six in short course.
After missing the U.S. team for the Paris 2024 Games, Andrew announced that for the first time in his swimming career, he would be training under a coach who wasn’t his father Peter Andrew. Michael Andrew still has not announced who he would be training under, saying that he’s still waiting for final approvals.
Future summer league 25 yard pool merchant
I called out sick from work today too, where’s my article?
I hope MA gets the help he needs in the pool but does this warrant a story or should it just be a sentence at the end of a more substantive article about relevant performances?
MA is widely known high level athlete who’s competed at the Olympcs before(and won a medal mind you) and one of the more publicly known figures in the US in this competition. I’m no fan of his mind you but critcizing SwimSwam for doing their job and then comparing him to yourself is absurd
I don’t know how you got this far in life without somebody telling you this, but not all jobs are the same.
Reading the comments… give this guy a break. I mean, aside from basic empathy… he acknowledged that what he’s been doing isn’t working, and he’s about to change up coaches. Isn’t that what everyone has been pleading with him to do? I’m not expecting much (anything) at Worlds, but so be it. There’s no magic pill to turn your career around in 2 months.
^^^^^^
Absolutely but at some point you need to put the work in. I think staying in the States to train with a new team would have been better than travelling and racing. You can’t just miraculously perform without putting in the work. I have always been a supporter but it seems to me a lot of this is to keep the sponsors rolling. The secret behind the new team is also bizarre.
It may be that MA’s coach has not finalized his contract with a team or training facilities yet. So maybe he will go where his coach goes when his coach goes.
“There’s no magic pill to turn your career around in 2 months.“
Ivermectin.
How the hell is Michael Andrew representing USA Swimming in the men’s 100 meter breaststroke at the 2024 Short Course World Championships when he finished 8th at the 2024 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials? Furthermore, Michael Andrew did not even qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
I think you mean the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
who would you rather have on your finals relay.. MA or Casas?
MA all day. He has some gold medals on relays to back it up.
On the breaststroke leg of the men’s 4 x 50/100 meter medley relay, Nic Fink.
Bro did not read the prompt
“Michael Andrew still has not announced who he would be training under, saying that he’s still waiting for final approvals.”
“Can I swim here?”
“Yes”
Done.
LOL
Best wishes for safe travel home Michael. Get healthy, train and get it done at Worlds!
25 meters was too much for him
Dang bro