2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
- Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016
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Tyler Clary, who finished 8th this morning in the 400 IM prelims, has scratched out of the final, according to his Twitter.
Lot of swimming left, and I will be scratching the 400im tonight in order to focus on the 200 free tomorrow morning, 200 fly and 200 back.
— Tyler Clary, OLY (@TylerClary) June 26, 2016
Clary swam a 4:15.41 this morning, well off of his personal best of 4:06.96. His best since 2010 was a 4:09.03, which he was also pretty far off of. He says in his tweet that he’ll be focusing on the 200 free tomorrow morning, along with the 200 fly and 200 back later on in the meet.
Now that Clary is out of lane 8 for the final, Abrahm Devine moves into that last spot tonight.
Devine, a rising sophomore with Stanford University, was 4:15.83 this morning for 9th. That’s a huge new personal best for Devine, who last set his own best time at 4:19.22 in early June.
The qualifiers for tonight’s final are now as follows, in order of their seed for the final:
- Chase Kalisz, 4:11.86
- Ryan Lochte, 4:11.98
- Jay Litherland, 4:12.57
- Gunnar Bentz, 4:13.67
- Sean Grieshop, 4:14.00
- Josh Prenot, 4:14.19
- Michael Weiss, 4:15.21
- Abrahm Devine, 4:15.83
The first alternate is now Austin Snyder at 4:19.57.
I dislike people who bad mouth other people to the media (even if his observation was, in essence, true). But Clary has grown on me the last few years. At least until this past year, he was just such a hard worker, and he came through at Pan Pacs when many a big name (Lochte, Adrian, Dwyer, and through a bad back, Missy) did not.
Kind of bummed to see him so off the mark this year then.
Well at least now he doesn’t have to worry about an annoying post-Olympic invitation to the White House. Wouldn’t want anything to interfere with his race car driving
What’s the story behind the bad mouthing?
Tyler needs a little more work on his breaststroke.
I’m sure this is his last meet so it doesn’t matter.
Yep, that swim put him into retirement.
Worth noting – According to finals heat sheets, Prenot has scratched out of 4th place in the 400 IM along with Clary. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000300041102FFFFFFFFFFFF01
Correction – Prenot scratched out of 6th Place, not 4th, and Weiss is out as well, scratching from 7th.
Well I’m positive I had either Prenot or Clary in the top 4… Thanks guys 🙁
Wow. I guess I can see why Prenot would scratch though still wanted to see him go for it tonight. Weiss scratching seems less understandable.
I think Prenot surprised himself with his 100 breast, and while i definitely wanted to see him swim the IM tonight (especially about that 1:07.91 breast split), it makes sense that he wants to fine tune his breaststroke speed ahead of the 200 breast, his best chance at making the team.
I think Weiss is fully focused on top 6 in the 200 free, and knows it’ll take everything to do it, and top 2 here looked like a long shot. Wish him luck!
Agree that seems a reasonable decision
Prudent move.
The beginning of the end for Clary
Apparently he didn’t work hard enough and karma took a chunk out of him big enough to bait a bear trap.
Bracket wrecked. Had clary at 4th
Same here….and I had Ledeckey too
Ledecky scratched yesterday, so you still had time to change your picks in that event.
Rub it in.
Scratching for the 200 free & 200 fly??? Don’t think he has a chance there either!!
200 back is his only chance to make the team. 1:54 mid should do it.
He won’t beat either Murphy or pebley
Pebley goes 1:56 right? Murphy is probably going 1:54 low. And nothing is a lock, like Phelps said.