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Make that two; see my previous post. ;)
Edit: Uhhh, make that "one more"; I read the rest of the thread after I quoted your post and saw you had some other fans, as well. :D
I think the U.S. team put to rest the notion that Trials were too close to the Olympics. It seems like nearly everyone swam faster in London than they did in Omaha. Really great team effort by the both the U.S. men and women!
I think it's good to have trials close to the Olympics. It gives us the best chances of sending our best swimmers at the time. If Trials were held 6 months before the games, probably 90% of our Olympians would have been the same. There'd be some jostling among luck-of-the-touch or luck-of the-taper type races.
It would've been sad if Katie Ledecky hadn't made it.
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I think it's good to have trials close to the Olympics. It gives us the best chances of sending our best swimmers at the time. If Trials were held 6 months before the games, probably 90% of our Olympians would have been the same. There'd be some jostling among luck-of-the-touch or luck-of the-taper type races.
It would've been sad if Katie Ledecky hadn't made it.
It looks like it really worked this year.Lochte was about the only one who didn't look like he hit his taper(except Phelps in the 400 IM also).
Whatever the Aussies did was certainly not the way to go.They were really fast at their trials and then got no individual Gold.
I think it's good to have trials close to the Olympics. It gives us the best chances of sending our best swimmers at the time. If Trials were held 6 months before the games, probably 90% of our Olympians would have been the same. There'd be some jostling among luck-of-the-touch or luck-of the-taper type races.
It would've been sad if Katie Ledecky hadn't made it.
There are two other reasons why the Olympic Trials will stay where they are.
1. They do not conflict with the NCAA College season. This was a major conflict back in 1992 and they have not been held in March since.
2. NBC likes having the contracts to televise these events and this year they had all of the trials going in a two week period and it was great for ratings because they can capture different fans across the different sports. The Diving, Swimming, Track & Field, and Gymnastics all were going on in a two week window for prime time TV.
