2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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MEN’S 400-METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
- World Record: 4:02.50 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2023)
- World Junior Record: 4:10.02 – Ilya Borodin, RUS (2021)
- Olympic Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- 2021 Winning Time: 4:09.42 – Chase Kalisz, USA
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 4:10.20
- Leon Marchand (France) – 4:08.30
- Max Litchfield (Great Britain) – 4:09.51
- Daiya Seto (Japan) – 4:10.92
- Carson Foster (USA) – 4:11.07
- Tomoyuki Matsushita (Japan) – 4:11.18
- Alberto Raxzeetti (Italy)/Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand)/Cedric Buessing (Germany) – 4:11.52 (TIE)
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Defending Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400 IM Chase Kalisz has missed finals of the event after an 11th place finish in this morning’s prelims. Kalisz swam to a 4:13.36, about two seconds off of the 4:11.52 that it took to qualify for finals.
Kalisz is not the only medalist from Tokyo to have missed the final as Australia’s Brendon Smith who bronze in Tokyo but was 13th this morning in a 4:14.36.
With both Kalisz and Smith out, the podium tonight will have no returns from Tokyo as silver medalist Jay Litherland missed the US Olympic roster after a 3rd place finish at US Olympic Trials.
Despite no podium members from Tokyo, 2016 Rio bronze medalist Daiya Seto of Japan will look to return to the podium after the 3rd fastest time of the morning. Seto was on the move in the 2nd heat today, staying with Leon Marchand for the first half of the race before falling off the pace slightly to touch in a 4:10.92 this morning. Seto is on his “revenge tour” after a 9th place finish during prelims in Tokyo.
The 400 IM was significantly slower this morning than it was in Tokyo. It took a 4:10.20 to make the final three years ago, over a second faster than the 4:11.52 from today.
Not really a surprise.
I am not a Chase fan by any means, but Chase always steps up in the big meets in the 4IM! Can you name some examples of him not stepping up in big meets in the 4im as to why you make that statement?
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Always a back-half guy, reliant on the breastroke. Just difficult to fight back through the waves in this janky pool.
Tough break. Terrific career nonetheless!
I agree about his breast leg being his go to and it wasn’t there! But don’t say it was wavy and that was the reason! That is BS. Everyone is in the same pool!
Y’all are an impossible crowd to please…have to get the words just right, huh?
True that it is even playing field for everyone, etc. – that is assumed. But he doesnt have the same ability/ease as others to get out fast on fly/ back and his breast normally allows him to catch up no matter what, relative to others, but it didn’t because of this pool.
It is what it is – you have to acknowledge outcome would have been different in better pool, though he’s likely off enough where he wouldn’t medal.
How would the outcome be different from a better pool, because everyone else would have benefitted too, not just chase…
If breaststroke is slower in this pool, and his breaststroke is his strength relative to others, then he is disadvantaged. Not that hard
The slower breaststrokers would be disadvantaged for a longer time then, since Chase’s breast split is faster than most others. Stop coping
How is the food/transportation/living accommodations for US? Did training camp not go well? Looked like a lot of fun, too much fun? Seems like everyone is swimming slightly or a lot slower than Trials.
girll we only have 1 session of finals, it’s too early for say things like that. Did you forgot about the AR in the Women’s 4×100 and W2 going 55.38????
I agree it’s early, and there have been a couple of positives. But postgrad swimmer poses legitimate questions/concerns. Let’s hope USA squad can pick up momentum this evening.
4:09 won this event in Tokyo💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Swimming finals in the morning!
USA is gonna have a bad meet just look at this and the relay splits yesterday
Relay splits were great yesterday what
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted pretty much everyone showed up and threw down for those relays lol
Yeah I think maybe Guiliano and Dressel could’ve been a tenth or two faster to really go “WOW!”, but in general it was pretty solid splits all around.
Solid is far from great.
Great might not actually be possible in more fringe sports like swimming. To become great, it takes talent, but also takes a lot of experience, both from the analyst and the producer. There are just literally not as many opportunities in swimming to become great at it and not enough money to attract the hyper-talented possibilities.
So I can live with solid. Based on my watching of the Olympics so far this week, I’d say he’s having a mid-pack performance.
Tough morning
Slow pool.
And slower for some more than others, I guess.
All that matters is it is the same pool for everyone!
First of all Seto is same age as Chase and made it. Hard to compare prelims from Tokyo to prelims in Paris. Remember they swam prelims at night therefore prelims were very good (for prelims) and hardly anyone went faster in finals the next morning and no one dropped much at all. Tokyo was the slowest times for 4imers in a VERY LONG time!!!
But 11th out of 16 is not good. Chase usually steps up in big meets in 4IM and that makes us wonder something else going on?