Welcome back for another round of TopTenTweets and this time, it’s all about the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials that just wrapped up in Indianapolis, IN. Swimming Twitter is at it’s best during a big meet, and you didn’t let us down this week. It was tough to narrow it down to just ten entries, but here’s what we’ve come up with (plus an honorable mention for a theme of the week).
Honorable Mention:
There was a lot of discussion online this week about the “J. Crew ad campaign curse.” Has it taken over from the SwimSwam photo curse? Please discuss.
jcrew curse is real
— nyt strand player (@schiwmming) June 23, 2024
10. Caption Game
“Your favorite backstroker’s favorite backstroker” immediately put this post from Navy in the top 10.
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9. Backstroke Bears
Fun fact: Cal-trained swimmers take up 100% of the backstroke spots on the men’s Olympic roster.
University of California, Backstroke https://t.co/FX1WX2Qru9
— Cal Men’s Swim & Dive (@calmenswim) June 23, 2024
8. Bringing Paris to Indianapolis
This isn’t so much about the tweet itself as it is recognizing that whoever came up with “Louvre-cas Oil Stadium” deserves as an award.
@stanfordwswim Trials board. We had an incredible week and my favorite stat is that 50% of our total swims (34) were best times!!! pic.twitter.com/h7iXmYxX8L
— Greg Meehan (@Stanford_W_Swim) June 24, 2024
7. Cause for Celebration
And then in semifinals, Zach Harting Zach Hartinged a 100 fly even faster.
Anyone wondering why I celebrated a prelims race…. BEST TIME (by 0.02). The fastest a Zach Harting has Zach Hartinged a 100 fly in the history of ever.
— Zach Harting, M.S., OLY (@hartingz) June 21, 2024
6. KL Doing KL Things
AND she became only the second swimmer in history to win an event at U.S. Olympic Trials four times.
Likely place for her to be https://t.co/nFOC04UYyB
— Claire Watkins (@ScoutRipley) June 16, 2024
5. Please Not Another Commercial Break
Speaking of Katie Ledecky doing Katie Ledecky things, it would be lovely to see her entire race.
PEACOCK PLEASE pic.twitter.com/xuwiiISZZ2
— RYAN MONEY MURPHY💰💰 (@pfizer4andrew) June 20, 2024
4. Deleting Records
Nobody was happier than Josh Prenot to see the 200 breast American record go down.
He deleted it. Phenomenal swim https://t.co/yRUKxPRGlw
— Josh Prenot (@JoshPrenot) June 20, 2024
3. Ryan Murphy’s Butterfly Side Quest
The SwimSwam comments section if Ryan Murphy had made the team in the 100 butterfly would’ve been incredible.
Ryan Murphy 4th going into the 100 fly final pic.twitter.com/UMyd64lMS4
— jocelyn (swimswim4) (@swimswim48) June 22, 2024
2. Exposure Therapy?
Even though the open water swimmers were racing in a pool last week, that doesn’t mean they weren’t still preparing.
The zyns in the pool are to prepare the open water swimmers for the water quality of the Seine
— Mari (@chlorinemommy) June 15, 2024
1. The Power of the Post-It
Here at TopTenTweets, we usually make it a rule to avoid using Stories. But we’re making an exception this week because this is just too good.
BRING COWBELLS TO AUSTRALIA
Wait, not airing the entire 1500 reminded me:
Is the men’s 50 free swim off that ALSO tied posted anywhere!??! I haven’t seen an actual video of that, which…jfc what a gift of “content.”
Immediately worried about Douglass after todays insta posts 😬
….the JCrew ads?
I forget who everyone in the original ad was. I think it was Smoliga, Leah Smith, Litherland, Dare Rose, and then I don’t remember.
Hopefully Curzan took the curse on this one.
Drew Kibler was the only one who survived the curse.
Well, if one swimmer survives out of each J. Crew ad campaign, Douglass should be fine since Curzan took that hit.
Was pretty sure is was White over Leah Smith but I could be wrong about that. But Natalie Hinds and Drew Kibler (as someone already mentioned) as well
White and L. Smith both would have fallen to the curse. I don’t think Hinds swam at Trials (not sure why).
Swimmers seem to be a superstitious bunch, so if I were a swimmer at that level (I wish), J Crew would have to produce a very large check since it seems that appearing in their ad does not result in success.
Did Regan go the exact time that was on her fridge?!
Yes, epic
That really was a comeback.