Swimming

[orangeman 1,989]

On 4/7/2022 at 10:30 AM, intoronto said:

Day 2 of Canadian Trials to select teams for the Worlds and Commonwealth Games (A standard is selected for Worlds). 

 

Kylie Masse broke the NR in the 50m back (27.18)

 

Women's 100 fly

Maggie MacNeil 57.13

Katerine Savard 58.01

 

Men's 100 fly

Josh Liendo 50.88 (New NR)

Finlay Knox 51.86

 

Women's 1500m

Abby Dunford 16:20.86 (only 15 years old)

 

Men's 800m

No one qualified

What a great time for Liendo.  That would have gotten him a close 4th in Tokyo and a silver in Rio!  

[orangeman 1,989]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Yikes, the breaststroke times for both men and women...

Breaststroke is obviously the weak spot for Canada.  The women would have won the gold in the medley relay with a better leg there (not blaming Pickrem!).  Masse had the fastest back, MacNeil had the fastest fly and Penny had the 2nd fastest free.  Now with the mixed medley, Canada needs to find someone competent in the breast given their depth at other strokes.  

[james89 847]

22 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Breaststroke is obviously the weak spot for Canada.  The women would have won the gold in the medley relay with a better leg there (not blaming Pickrem!).  Masse had the fastest back, MacNeil had the fastest fly and Penny had the 2nd fastest free.  Now with the mixed medley, Canada needs to find someone competent in the breast given their depth at other strokes.  

There was Faith Knelson a few years ago but she took the Olympic year off for surgery and I don’t think came back. I was hopeful she would be the missing link but maybe it ain’t so. 

[intoronto 5,638]

Team Canada for the 2022 World Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games  

Pool:

Javier Acevedo*
Sophie Angus*
Jeremy Bagshaw*
Katrina Bellio*
Tessa Cieplucha*
James Dergousoff*
Abby Dunford
Collyn Gagne*
Ruslan Gaziev*
Mary-Sophie Harvey*
Patrick Hussey*
Yuri Kisil*
Finlay Knox*
Joshua Liendo*
Maggie MacNeil*
Kylie Masse*
Summer McIntosh*
Rachel Nicol
Penny Oleksiak*
Sydney Pickrem*
Taylor Ruck
Kayla Sanchez*
Katerine Savard*
Rebecca Smith*
Richie Stokes
Ingrid Wilm
Kelsey Wog

 

Marathon

Alex Axon
Katrina Bellio*
Eric Brown*
Abby Dunford
Hau Li Fan
Emma Finlin
Eric Hedlin

 

*Will also compete at Commonwealth Games (pool events only). Ella Jansen will compete at the Commonwealth Games only. Taylor Ruck, who won 8 medals at the Gold Coast Games, is left of the team for unknown reasons.

[intoronto 5,638]

Canada's best (arguably) para-swimmer Aurelie Rivard had a medical emergency during a race at the World Championships.

 

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/1891073/paranatation-aurelie-rivard-abandon-mondiaux-madere-portugal-tess-routiliffe

 

Hopefully everything is okay!

[intoronto 5,638]

Wow...

 

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/swimming/swimming-mary-sophie-harvey-says-she-was-drugged-at-2022-worlds-1.6512696

[Topicmaster1010 4,177]

So for those who missed it, a more detailed version of the Paris 2024 schedule came out on Monday. Thought it would be interesting to analyze what Summer McIntosh's potential schedule could look like. Below are all the events that she COULD potentially swim. Of course she won't swim all of them but looking listing all the events down could help figure out what she could drop and what she may compete in. H means heats, SF means semifinals, F means final.

 

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9
Morning	400m Free H	200m Free H	400m IM H		200m Fly H		200m IM H 800m Free H
Evening	400m Free F 4x100m Free Relay F?	200m Free SF	400m IM F 200m Free F		200m Fly SF	200m Fly F 4x200m Free Relay F	200m IM SF	200m IM F 800m Free F

You would think that she definitely would swim the 400m Freestyle, 400m IM, 200m butterfly and the final of the 4x200m Freestyle relay. 4x100m relay probably won't happen since we have good 100m freestyle depth already but who knows in two years.

 

So the biggest problem is that the finals of two of her best events, the 400m IM and 200m Freestyle fall on the same night. They're the first and last session of the night so pulling off the double is possible but given her rigorous schedule, it's probably not going to happen. In this case she'll probably drop the 200 Free since she's a bigger gold medal favourite in the IM and she would have the day 2 evening session off.

 

Then there's the clash between the 200m IM and 800 Free. The finals are back to back so doubling is impossible. It's entirely possible that she doesn't swim any of them since she didn't swim both events at worlds but they are the only events during the final 1/3 of the meet so she'll probably try to go for one of the events. In this case, I would think she would go for the 200m IM since given her event entries recently, she seems to like that more.

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

Yeah most likely 400m Free, 400m IM, 200m Fly and 200 IM along with the 4x200m Free though she could drop one of the individual events to rest

[intoronto 5,638]

Concerning results at Junior Pan Pacs. One bronze through 2 days...no relay medals in 3 events. 

[Topicmaster1010 4,177]

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Concerning results at Junior Pan Pacs. One bronze through 2 days...no relay medals in 3 events. 

Yeah definitely a bit concerning but a lot of them have had long summers of competition so maybe it's just fatigue? Also the medal tally would probably look a lot different if Summer was competing