US Olympic Trials: Swimming

The Olympic trials for swimming began yesterday and will end on July 3rd. This is my favorite part of the Olympics for swimming, seeing all the amazing swimmers that our country has, and most people don't know about.

Each event starts out with about 50 to 150 swimmers...and only #1 and #2 go to the Olympics. That is after they have trials, semi-finals and then finals. So if you want to make it and you are at the top, you need to have THREE good swims, not just one.



DAY ONE
FINALS:
Mens 400m IM
#1_Michael Phelps (World Record_4:05.25)
#2_Ryan Lochte (also broke WR_4:06.08))

Womans 400IM,
Katie Hoff (World Record_4:31.12)

Mens 400m Freestyle
Larsen Jenson (American Record_3:43.53)
Peter Vanderkaay (3:43.73)

These were the first two events of the night and already WR's are begin broken AND this is only TRIALS. Wait until the Olympics. It is going to be awesome!!!

Today’s events include prelims and semifinals of the women’s 100m backstroke, the men’s 200m freestyle, the women’s 100m breaststroke and the men’s 100m back. Finals will be conducted in the women’s 100m butterfly, men’s 100m breast and women’s 400m free.
You can watch at 8pm EST on USA.