Phelps Talks Watching Trials From Stands; McKeown Sets New WR; Wave I Experiment Enacting Long-Term Change?; Ledecky Underdog for Tokyo in 400 FR; Trials Heat Sheet, Live Stream, Live Results

Michael Phelps Discusses Watching Olympic Trials From the Stands, As a Dad

Michael Phelps is in a rare position this week in Omaha. He isn’t the favorite, he isn’t making a comeback and he isn’t an underdog.

He is just here.

Phelps and his family have been at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, soaking in the trials from the unfamiliar position of a swimming fan.

He cheered on swimmers, pointed swimmers out to his children, soaked in the sport as a dad and enjoyed not being in the water — at least part of it.

Tears And Tributes Flow As Kaylee McKeown Sets A New WR and Ariarne Titmus Rattles Katie Ledecky’s 400 Free Mark

Australian wonder girls Kaylee McKeown and Ariarne Titmus have tonight sent a clear message to the world – “we’re ready to take the Tokyo Olympic pool by storm.”

First McKeown (USC Spartans) with a new world record of 57.45 in the 100m backstroke and then Titmus (St Peters Western) with the second fastest time in history of 3:56.90 in the 400m freestyle brought the house down at the SA Aquatic and Leisure in a thrilling second night of the Olympic Trials in Adelaide.

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‘Unbelievable’ Wave I Experiment Has USA Swimming Pondering Long-Term Change

Yes, the meet’s primary purpose is to select the American delegation to the Tokyo Olympics. But for many USA Swimming members, competing in Olympic Trials is a pinnacle of a career, a defining line-item on a swimming CV.

The leadership team at USA Swimming sought to balance those objectives in the face of COVID-19-related challenges that limited the number of swimmers that could be at Omaha at one time for Trials. And the bifurcation of the meet into last week’s Wave I and the Wave II meet for Olympic selection starting Sunday provides a new way of looking at Trials in non-pandemic times.

4:01 400 Free Qualifies Katie Ledecky for Olympics, But She’s Still Underdog for Tokyo

On the other side of the world, 20-year-old Australian Ariarne Titmus had set the standard, her 3:56.90 400 freestyle at Australia’s Olympic Trials that came within a half-second of Katie Ledecky’s world record. Monday night at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Ledecky had her chance to respond, but she was unable to come close to 3:56 territory, and she ended up swimming a time two seconds slower than her own season-best time.

US Olympic Trials Day One Prelims Heat Sheets: Lochte Unsurprisingly Scratches 400 IM

After a five-year long wait, the US Olympic Trials have finally arrived. With six weeks until the Olympic Games, the United States will begin selecting its Olympic team for the Tokyo Games on Sunday evening as the finals of the 400 IM and men’s 400 free will be held. The heats of the men’s 100 breaststroke and women’s 100 butterfly will also take place on Sunday morning.

Unsurprisingly, 2012 Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte scratched the 400 IM after being entered in the event on the psych sheet.

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