The first finals session of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials – Swimming begins this Sunday night with the men’s and women’s 400 IM finals and the men’s 400 free finals.
The Trials begin with the first prelims session in less than five short days, and NBC will be broadcasting all sessions of prelims and finals between NBC and NBC Sports. The full schedule, which was originally posted on nbcsports.com, is laid out below with times in Eastern Time.
| Day | Time (ET) | Network | Key Events |
| Sunday, June 26 | 6 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8 p.m. | NBC | M/W 400 IM; M 400 FR | |
| Monday, June 27 | 6:30 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8 p.m. | NBC | W 100 FL, 400 FR; M 100 BR | |
| Tuesday, June 28 | 7 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8Â p.m. | NBC | M/W 100 BK; W 100 BR; M 200 FR | |
| Wednesday, June 29 | 7 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8 p.m. | NBC | W 200 FR, 200 IM; M 200 FL | |
| Thursday, June 30 | 6:30 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8Â p.m. | NBC | M 100 FR, 200 BR; W 200 FL | |
| Friday, July 1 | 6 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8 p.m. | NBC | W 100 FR, 200 BR; M 200 BK, 200 IM | |
| Saturday, July 2 | 5 p.m. | NBCSN | Qualifying Heats (tape) |
| 8 p.m. | NBC | W 200 BK, 800 FR; M 50 FR, 100 FL | |
| Sunday, July 3 | 7 p.m. | NBC | W 50 FR, M 1500 FR |
Prelims will be taped and then broadcasted directly before the finals. All of the finals sessions will be shown at 8pm ET. Live streams of both the prelims and finals each day will also be available, with more information on that here.
The Trials will be contested in Omaha, Nebraska, which is located in the Central Time zone. Wondering when to head to the live stream (or to NBC for finals if you have access in other time zones)? Check out the time differences below:
| Time Zone | Prelims (live) | Finals (+15 mins for NBC TV start) |
| Pacific | Â 8AM | Â 4:45PM |
| Mountain | Â 9AM | Â 5:45PM |
| Central | Â 10AM | Â 6:45PM |
| Eastern | Â 11AM | Â 7:45PM |
| Rio de Janeiro (BRT) | Â 12PM | Â 8:45PM |
| London (BST) | Â 4PM | Â 12:45AM |
| Paris/Rome/Madrid (CEST) | Â 5PM | Â 1:45AM |
| Moscow/Nairobi (MSK) | Â 6PM | Â 2:45AM |
| Beijing (CST) | Â 11PM | Â 7:45AM |
| Tokyo (JST) | Â 12AM | Â 8:45AM |
| Sydney (AEST) | Â 1AM | Â 9:45AM |
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Can it be streamed from other countries
good ‘;;’;
I just want to give a quiet, respectful golf clap to NBC for not tap-delaying their coverage to the west coast.
I live on the West Coast and just checked my local TV listings. In my area, NBC is tape-delaying finals and broadcasting them at 8pm each night.
oh. i take back my golf clap then. replace with a boo, hiss.
East coast privileges. This will probably be the only time that I’m glad I live in Florida. That stinks!!
Thanks for this info.
It will be live on the nbc extra website, for the first half of the meet i will be in the east cost and I will watch it on tv but the second half back home in the west coast so I will watch it on the nbc extra live and replay it on tv three hours later
How to get Sports Extra?
Any way to stream prelims on the USA swimming website?
Ugh, looks like the only live stream of prelims is via NBCSN…which cord cutters don’t have. Grr!
I wish we could cut the cord, but CableOne limits your download each month so it ends up costing roughly the same, so I’m locked and loaded with the Dish 200 package in preparation for trials and Olympics ????
NBC is making this REALLY hard for cord-cutters. Or, more accurately, Comcast is making NBC make this really hard for the cord-cutters.
The very definition of a 1st world problem.
Says JOE BAGODOUGHTS while using 1st world luxuries to voice his opinion 🙂
Can always watch it at my place !
I Love Swimming, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Track and Field and Biking. I feel bad that the situation is not that great in Rio. I hope they bring the house down with the Opening Ceremony.
Set my DVR for all this stuff the other day. Mucho excited.
I will be in Guatemala next week. Is there any way to watch the stream from there?
If u have cable here in the us then u can see nbc lived extra with your us IP address
Out of topic. But, will it be streamed in USA swimming website?
Not out of topic at all!
I remember in 2008 all prelims were broadcasted live on the USA swimming webcast!
I don’t remember about 2012.
Looks like it will not be the case this time unfortunately.
That’s not cool.
Watching live on NBCSports.com/live will be like Christmas when the Track and Field trials start and BOTH swimming and track are aired on the same webcast. Happy days are here again!
My nights will be very short. 😆
But if I’m tired I can watch finals’ sessions at a “normal” time. French TV sports channel SFR sport 2 has bought the TV rights of US olympic trials in swimming, track and field and gymnastics and they will show finals’ sessions recorded.
But it’s tough to not read the results before watching the races recorded on TV. 🙂
How did this get 24 down votes already? Why do you all hate on Bobo so much??
Easy Avoid swim swam at all costs until after u have watched the finals
Make sure you root for Justin Gatlin the comeback kid 😉
Justin “More doped than Efimova but covered by IATF and USATF” Gatlin?
Yes, that’s the guy in talking about. He’s primed for gold this year.