how was the usa team selected for this years world champs in italy?
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how was the usa team selected for this years world champs in italy?
They haven't been for the pool events. The pool events are in July. The open water team was selected this past weekend in florida. The top 2 finishers were given the option of swimming 3 open water events. If one decided not to swim all 3 events, the next highest American was picked-up to swim the event.
Fran Crippen and Andrew Gemmell were the first 2 men in Florida and both chose to swim the 5K and 10K in Rome.
Emily Brunemann and Eva Fabian were the first 2 men in Florida. Emily chose to swim the 5K and 10K in Rome while Eva chose to swim the 10K and 25K.
These decisions enabled the following individuals to fill in the rest of the team:
Emily Hanson (3rd in Florida) chose to swim the 5K and 25K.
Sean Ryan and Alex Meyer chose to both swim the 25K.
So the USA team will have a team of 7 individuals. Their prospects in Rome are described on www.swimnetwork.com (refer to www.swimnetwork.com/.../open_water_wednesday__meet_the_worlds_team-2411.html).
