[ColoradoTree]

14 yo just won the Canadian Olympic trials in the 200 free over Penny Oleksiak. This is the fastest 200 free for a swimmer 14 or under in world history.

https://olympic.ca/2021/06/20/olympic-sw...for-tokyo/

Oleksiak just crushed the 100m free, 0.6 seconds faster than the first place American at trials. Doubt the USA medals in the 100.

Yeah, Manuel's form being off pretty much sealed our fate in the 100. The top-ranked American women in the 100 free are:

12. Huske (not on team)
13. Weitzeil
T14. Smoliga (relay only)
T14. Hinds (relay only)
T14. Curzan (not on team)
19. Brown

Four of the top five in the world right now are Aussies, and in addition to them above the Americans are two from China, two from Great Britain, two from the Netherlands, and one from France. (Those rankings don't yet include the 100 free at Canadian trials, but Oleksiak's time would put her fourth, and bumping all those American swimmers down one rank.)

Weitzeil will have to drop like a half second just to make the final. And I wouldn't be shocked if we don't medal in the 4x100 relay for the first time since the boycotted 1980 Games. If we do medal, it'll be the Bronze by the skin of our teeth.

[ColoradoTree]

14 yo just won the Canadian Olympic trials in the 200 free over Penny Oleksiak. This is the fastest 200 free for a swimmer 14 or under in world history.

https://olympic.ca/2021/06/20/olympic-sw...for-tokyo/

Oleksiak just crushed the 100m free, 0.6 seconds faster than the first place American at trials. Doubt the USA medals in the 100.

Yeah, Manuel's form being off pretty much sealed our fate in the 100. The top-ranked American women in the 100 free are:

12. Huske (not on team)
13. Weitzeil
T14. Smoliga (relay only)
T14. Hinds (relay only)
T14. Curzan (not on team)
19. Brown

Four of the top five in the world right now are Aussies, and in addition to them above the Americans are two from China, two from Great Britain, two from the Netherlands, and one from France. (Those rankings don't yet include the 100 free at Canadian trials, but Oleksiak's time would put her fourth, and bumping all those American swimmers down one rank.)

Weitzeil will have to drop like a half second just to make the final. And I wouldn't be shocked if we don't medal in the 4x100 relay for the first time since the boycotted 1980 Games. If we do medal, it'll be the Bronze by the skin of our teeth.