Yeah, we have such a strong crop of Juniors, that we can’t take them all. They all have exciting trajectories but to predict what Junior swimmers will is always difficult. Better to let them all swim together at Juniors than rocketing them all up to seniors and swimming a prelim and going home.
Hanlon is the most unlucky, in my opinion. Aside from relay cover, she's the 50m champ and they made a point of including consideration for those events being in LA for the other discretionary picks. Essentially she has the same case for selection as Max Morgan (albeit without the trajectory right now).
Blocksidge's form was way off this week (compared to her previous bests). Obviously being still young you could put that down to relative inexperience. Still, she has World and European Juniors that she could still be selected for this summer. There's an argument that performing well at those might be as beneficial as going to Singapore.
That said, I'm happy that they did take a bunch of discretionary picks. That's not always been the case.
Friday April 25th, 2025 -
Round-Robin Day 4 Schedule (GMT +3)
13:00 Turkmenistan vs Kyrgyzstan
16:30 South Africa vs Luxembourg
20:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Turkiye
Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event.
https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748
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