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Neill will swim the 200 free. Armbruster the 100 fly. Lee the 200IM. 

Neill will swim the 200 free. Armbruster the 100 fly. Lee the 200IM. 

Iona Anderson is selected for the individual 100 back (came third at trials so takes Mollie's spot). Jenna Strauch will be in the 200 breast (has OQT from last year).

So much for all the talk about the US women beating the Australian women

Thought the US women would be quicker in the 100 free tbh.

the  trials are now,after the first day and the start of preliminary of the second we have 2 new qualifairs 
aviv barzelay in 200 backstrock women with 2:09.63 
adam maraana in the 100 backstrock with 53.60 also he will be the third ever israeli arab (from my understanding he is half arab from his father side but its still progress) in the olympics and first in swimming and since 76
link to results 
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A few things:
 
1. Chelsea Hodges just surprise retired following chronic injuries and surgeries. I’m devastated. She’ll always be an Olympic champion though.
 
2. @NearPup I agree they should aim for 20 swimmers in events with semis. Don’t care if there’s less than 20 if there’s no semis anyway. Could force universality swimmers to only enter events that are low on numbers. That could be fun.
 
3. NearPup again: Your second point kind of defeats the whole purpose of A and B cuts. This would lead to the strong swimming countries, who already have an advantage, sneaking in extra individual swimmers using relay spots. You would end up with swimmers from smaller countries not being invited while slower swimmers from big swim countries racing individually purely because their country has good relays. I don’t think flooding the heats with extra B cut swimmers who have no chance of medalling is necessarily a positive.

Forgot to mention, but Kylie Masse went 2:06.24 in the women’s 200m backstroke at the  Olympic Trials. Rounding into form right in time for Paris, and also putting herself into medal contention with these times.
 
Earlier in the week, she went 57.94 in the women’s 100m backstroke. 

2.04 looks like the cutoff for a medal in Paris for the 200 Fly
Summer and Regan Smith lead the way
Zhang Yufei has been 2.03 although not since Tokyo and it would not surprise if Dekkers hits 2.04 by Australian trials.