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On the surface, it would seem like Emma Weyant has just been cruising in the fast lane - making the Olympic team in the 400 IM in two consecutive Olympic Trials. But beneath the surface, it has been a tumultuous journey back to the team for Weyant. Since winning the silver medal in Tokyo in the 400 ...

Blake Pieroni didn't believe he could make another Olympic team - he just wanted to swim in an NFL stadium. Then when he was already qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium, something happened. Pieroni, 28, was racing at a smaller meet and threw down a time that made him start bel...

Chris Guiliano the Star of 2021 Wave I Trials Alums Three Years Later There was, as with so much in 2021, much hand-wringing when USA Swimming was forced into a tough decision. In the name of social distancing and COVID-era safety, the organization decided to divide the Olympic Trials, one of its mo...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Dressel's Return Plus Young Sprint Stars Make American Men 400 Free Relay Favorites The United States has a complicated recent history with the men's 400 freestyle relay. The Americans had never lost the event in the Olympics before the start of the 21st century, but in four ...

David Johnston Added to Olympic Open Water; Erin Gemmell Gets Individual 200 Free Swim USA Swimming made two adjustments to its Olympic roster on Thursday, with David Johnston added to the open water team and Erin Gemmell promoted to swim the women’s 200 free. Johnston qualified for the men’s 1,500 ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Australian Women Favored For Fourth Straight 400 Free Relay Gold The last time Australia was not victorious in the women's 400 freestyle relay at a major international competition was 2017, when the United States won a tight World Championships final at a meet when Cate Campb...

‘Blew Away Our Expectations:’ Lucas Oil Stadium Gets Rave Reviews as Olympic Trials Host It was going to take something special for Blake Pieroni to get back into the water. Pieroni is 28, getting married in August and balancing a commute from his training base of Bloomington to a job in Indianapoli...

Top 8 Performances of U.S. Olympic Trials: Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith Lead Way With World Records Nine nights of swimming at Lucas Oil Stadium produced record-setting races in front of record-sized crowds, and by the end, the United States had assembled a team of 46 pool swimmers (20 female, 26 mal...

U.S. Olympic Trials: A Collaboration of the Past, Present, and Future Something that made watching the Olympic Trials a little more special this year was seeing all the familiar faces. I’m not talking about the well-known stars that everybody knows. I’m talking about the swimmers I grew up racing ag...

Michael Brinegar Formally Issued Four-Year Suspension After Competing at Doha Worlds During Appeal At last week's U.S. Olympic Trials, Michael Brinegar competed in the prelims of the 400 and 800 freestyle but withdrew from the 1500, his best event, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reim...

Swimming for Late Brother, Louisville’s Tommy Bried has Unforgettable Trials Four times Tuesday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, Tommy Bried got a chance to step up to the blocks. Each time, the well-coiffed Louisville senior needed look no further than high on his hip ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Great Britain Favored in Men's 800 Free, Americans in Pursuit The United States had never missed an Olympic relay podium until 2021, when the men's 800 freestyle relay group faded out of contention and ended up fourth. But since then, a young group of 200 freestylers have bui...

Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt Testify Before Congressional Subcommittee on Anti-Doping Measures, WADA As news has emerged about 23 Chinese positive drug tests from 2021 and the subsequent nondisclosure of those results, top American swimmers and officials have spoken out against the World Anti-Dop...

Olympic Relay Analysis: U.S. Women Facing Huge Deficit in 800 Freestyle Relay At last year's World Championships, the United States women took the lead over Australia with one leg remaining in the 800 freestyle relay. But the standings at that point were a mirage: the Americans had put all of their ...

Dara Torres Enjoys ‘Amazing’ Corps of Veteran Competitors at Olympic Trials Dara Torres was 41 years old with a two-year-old daughter in 2008 when she ended her retirement to make a run at the Beijing Olympics. That daughter is now off to college, and Torres duties at this week’s U.S. Olympic Trials...

Ashley Twichell Swims to Highest Finish at Olympic Trials Third place is the toughest place to finish at Olympic Trials, but Ashley Twichell isn't looking at it the same way. Twichell, an open water Olympian, finished third in the 1500 final at trials. "At the time, I thought it was my last race. I ...

As History Beckons in Paris, Katie Ledecky Keeps Focus on the Details It took Katie Ledecky a moment to get the statistic straight, which is relatable for anyone who’s ever tried to quantify Ledecky’s greatness. Ledecky was watching NBC’s coverage of U.S. Olympic Trials from her hotel in Indianapoli...

‘Hail Mary’ Answered for David Johnston in 1,500 Free Performance David Johnston was hoping to land on a less desperate metaphor. But with five days to mull it over, it was the best he could do. Johnston had finished third in the 400 freestyle and fourth in the 800 free at U.S. Olympic Trials. He’d ...

Emma Weber Channels ‘Inspiration’ of Fellow Regis Jesuit Alum Missy Franklin on Road to Olympics Say the words “Regis Jesuit” to a swimming fan and chances are the response would, Missy Franklin. Emma Weber is forcing an update to that game of word association. The Olympians share an alma mater in C...

United States Finishes Trials With Huge Medal Chances; How Much Will Be Gold? The United States is looking for retribution. After falling to Australia in the gold-medal count at last year’s World Championships, the Americans have set the target of catching up at the meet which matters most, the Olym...