Olympic Team Trials For Swimming. Olympic Team Trials For Swimming After winning the 2. Friday night, the brash 1. She will swim three events in Rio — the 1. I felt pretty good the whole way except the last 2. King said of the 2. Friday night in Omaha’s Century. Link Center. King knew that she was going to win. She looked around as she swam down the home stretch only because she was curious about who would finish second — Hannis or Lawrence. Even her parents, Mark and Ginny King, were confident. They booked travel to Rio before the Olympic Team Trials even began. It’s confidence that King has had since she was young. She wasn’t a very talented swimmer when she started at age 7, joining her mom in a rec league in their hometown of Evansville, Indiana. Ginny swam for Eastern Kentucky University, then Illinois State after EKU discontinued its swimming program. But she was not a breaststroker. “It's the running gag with all of her old swimming friends because that’s the one stroke she can’t do,” said Mark. For this reason, Ginny thinks her daughter is able to swim the stroke. “I had so many people desperately trying to teach me breaststroke that I was able to show her how to do it the right way,” said Ginny. She seemed to struggle in the pool, finishing last in the 5. Then when she was 1. All day she was going around saying I’m going to win,” said Ginny. Taylor-Talcott can compete in the 50K Olympic trials as a so-called guest upon agreeing not to try to participate in the men’s event at the London Games. Olympic Team Trials for Swimming, few outside the swimming world had heard of Lilly King. Lilly King competes in the. Us Olympic Trials 2012 Gymnastics ResultsPerhaps she could swim collegiately. But she wasn’t training like a future NCAA champion. Evansville only has one indoor pool, and six local high schools share four lanes for both boys and girls, explained Ginny. “That was 3. Lilly after she won the 1. In order to make it to school on time in the mornings, she swam with masters swimmers. Her sophomore year in high school, Lilly joined the Newburgh Sea Creatures in nearby Newburgh, Indiana. The head coach, Aaron Opell, was Big Ten champion in the 2. Indiana University and had trained under IU coach Ray Looze. “He really helped elevate her in ways, not just with technique but from a mental prep standpoint to get her from where she was to really prepare her for transition to IU breaststroke,” said Mark. Her confidence soared — to an obnoxious level, she admitted. “I realized no one that I’d been racing even long course had done that when they were in college so that was a real confidence booster for me,” she said. At 2. Olympic Trials, Lilly set the fastest time in the world this year in the 1. Efimova’s time by a half second). When asked if she is a medal contender in the 1. Rio, she does not hesitate: “For sure.” In the 2. Rio, and she knows it. Rebecca Soni won the 2. London in 2: 1. 9. For now, King was happy to qualify for Rio in the 2.
It’s still pretty special because it’s my . It’s pretty crazy for my first Olympics.” - -- In other finals at Olympic Trials tonight, Ryan Murphy, 1. Rio. His Cal- Berkeley teammate Jacob Pebley out- reached 2. Olympic gold medalist Tyler Clary to finish second. Pebley will likely be named to the 2. U. S. Olympic Team going to Rio at the end of the trials. Both Murphy and Pebley are first- time Olympians. The men’s 2. IM was a duel between legends Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. It’s the fourth straight time that they have competed against each other in the 2. IM at Olympic Trials. Phelps won the first three, with Lochte second each time. But in 2. 01. 2, he came within 0. On Friday night, it was neck- and- neck in the butterfly, then Phelps pulled slightly ahead in the backstroke and gained in the breaststroke — where Lochte has been hampered by a groin injury this week. Lochte surged back in the freestyle. But Phelps dug deep and beat his rival 1: 5. Both men are already on the 2. Olympic team. But the 2. IM will be the only individual event for Lochte in Rio. In the women’s 1. Abbey Weitzeil won the two- lap dash to make her first Olympic team. The 1. 9- year- old sprint specialist beat Stanford’s Simone Manuel, 5. Manuel is also a first- time Olympian. Olympic veteran Amanda Weir and Manuel’s Stanford teammate, Lia Neal, finished third and fourth and will round out the 4x. Weir is a two- time Olympian who won two silver medals in relays at the 2. Olympic Games, along with bronze from the 4x. London Games. Katie Ledecky finished seventh in 5. A freelance writer based in Vermont, Peggy Shinn has covered three Olympic Games. She has contributed to Team. USA. org since its inception in 2.
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