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Athletics Road to Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker (May 5th Update): New Entry Standards: Mariam Abdul-Rashid New Athletes via Rankings: Aurora Rynda, Brooke Overholt Change in rankings since last update are indicated in brackets Women: 100m (56 quotas): 13. Audrey Leduc - ES 39. Khamica Bingham (+1) 54. Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye (-3) 200m (48 quotas): 38. Jacqueline Madogo 400m (48 quotas): 40. Grace Konrad (+1) 41. Zoe Sherar (+1) 800m (48 quotas): 38. Jazz Shukla (-1) 48. Aurora Rynda (NEW) 1500m (45 quotas): 31. Lucia Stafford (-1) 38. Simone Plourde 5000m (42 quotas): 36. Julie-Anne Staehli (-2) 36. Briana Scott (-2) 100m Hurdles (40 quotas): 19. Mariam Abdul-Rashid - ES (+11) 28. Michelle Harrison (-1) 400m Hurdles (40 quotas): 24. Savannah Sutherland 32. Brooke Overholt (NEW) 3000m Steeplechase (36 quotas): 23. Regan Yee (-1) 27. Ceili McCabe (-2) 32. Grace Fetherstonhaugh (-5) Pole Vault (32 quotas): 5. Alysha Newman - ES 23. Anicka Newell Shot Put (32 quotas): 3. Sarah Mitton - ES Hammer Throw (32 quotas): 3. Camryn Rogers - ES 29. Kaila Butler (+1) Marathon (80 quotas): 35. Malindi Elmore - ES Men: 100m (56 quotas): 19. Brendon Rodney - ES 31. Aaron Brown (+6) 47. Andre de Grasse (+7) 200m (48 quotas): 6. Andre de Grasse - ES 9. Aaron Brown - ES (-1) 17. Brendon Rodney - ES (-1) 400m (48 quotas): 15. Christopher Morales-Williams - ES 800m (48 quotas): 2. Marco Arop - ES 1500m (45 quotas): 25. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot - ES (-1) 33. Kieran Lumb 5000m (42 quotas): 18. Mohammed Ahmed - ES 24. Benjamin Flanagan - ES 10000m (27 quotas): 6. Mohammed Ahmed - ES 3000m Steeplechase (36 quotas): 14. Jean-Simon Desgagnes Hammer Throw (32 quotas): 1. Ethan Katzberg - ES 14. Adam Keenan (-1) 19. Rowan Hamilton (-1) Marathon (80 quotas): 18. Cameron Levins - ES 65. Rory Linkletter - ES 20km Race Walk (48 quotas): 12. Evan Dunfee - ES Decathlon (24 quotas): 1. Pierce Lepage - ES 3. Damian Warner - ES So overall that's 43 individual qualifiers (18 men + 25 women) + another woman for the mixed race walk event + relay quotas. I'm going to guess an extra 2 women for the 4x100m, 3 women for the 4x400m and 2 men for the 4x100m. So that's roughly a team size of 51 athletes now.

2024 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials: Day 3 Preview Image Source Kylie Masse looks to qualify in the 100m backstroke for the 3rd straight Olympics Although not as stacked of a day as Day 2, Day 3 still presents qualification opportunities in all 4 events with a lot of intrigue surrounding who will be on the men's 4x200m freestyle relay. Men's 200m Freestyle Despite the mediocre entry times, this should still be a fun and close race with relay spots on the line. Javier Acevedo comes in with the top seed. His 200m freestyle times have improved vastly over the past two years with 3 of his best 4 swims coming in that time period. His personal best of 1:47.72 was set at the 2023 Canadian Trials. This year, he’s set times of 1:49.82 at the Knoxville TYR Pro Swim Series and 1:48.89 at the 2024 World Championships. He’ll be looking for back to back Canadian Championships in this event. Finlay Knox is also expected to contend for top spot in this race. While his PB still remains at the 1:47.92 he clocked at 2022 Canadian trials, he has already produced times of 1:48.17 and 1:48.39 at the 2024 World Championships and Canadian Open. He failed to break the 1:49.00 mark altogether in 2023 so this is a very encouraging sign that Finley can get back to the 1:47 mark in time for trials and be a key contributor on the relay. Patrick Hussey will be trying to get into the 1:47 range for the first time in his career. He broke through in this event in a big way last year clocking 1:48.39 at Canadian Trials, dropping over a second off his previous PB. Since then, he’s followed that up with a 1:49.91 at the Canadian Championships and times of 1:48.67 and 1:48.79 at the US Open in December. He doesn’t have a recorded long course time in the event this year so it’s hard to gage where he’s at. Lorne Wigginton is one of the new faces in this event for Canada. However, the Canadian coaches already seem to have a lot of trust in him by using him as an anchor for the 4x200m Freestyle Relay in Doha where he split 1:47.83. This year, he went 1:48.84 at the Canadian Open to smash his previous PB of 1:50.87 from the 2023 Canadian Championships. His new PB puts him right in the middle of contention. At the other end of the spectrum, we have 32 year old Jeremy Bagshaw. This is his best chance to qualify for his first Olympics. His personal best rests at 1:47.48 back from 2015. Over the Olympic qualification period, his best time stands at 1:49.27 from 2023 Canadian trials. He’s gone under 1:50 once this year at the Flander’s Cup in 1:49.84. He’ll likely need to drop some time if he wants to grab one of the relay spots. We go back to the youth as Laon Kim is next on the entry list. Kim is arguably the most exciting teenage swimmer in Canada at the moment (who’s first name is not a season). He has 7 individual long course age group records to his name and he’ll figure this is his best chance of making it on the Olympic Team. After going 1:52.82 at Canadian Trials last year, he broke that mark 3 more times to finally set his PB at 1:49.62 at the Canadian Championships. He most recently went 1:51.25 to take 2nd place in the event at the Fran Crippen Memorial Meet. Given his young age and talent level, he could very well have another significant time drop. Josh Liendo might be the most interesting entry here. Known mostly as a 50m and 100m swimmer, he’s done the 200m freestyle sparingly over the years. He swam a PB of 1:49.88 in the heats of Canadian Trials last year before scratching the final. However, given his talent upside, it’s possible that he has a 1:47 time in him. Tristan Jankovics, Filip Senc-Samardzic and Ethan Ekk will also look to build upon their PBs that they’ve set this season. Women's 100m Backstroke A mix of veterans and teenagers make this one of the more interesting races at these Olympic trials. To no one’s surprise, Kylie Masse comes in as the top seed. Masse has done just about everything you can in international swimming besides winning an Olympic gold medal. However, she had a rough season last year failing to win an individual medal at World Championships and only breaking 59 seconds one time. She’s already looking in much better form this year going 58.93 at the Spanish Winter Championships in February. She didn’t break 59 seconds at all at an in season meet so this bodes well for this summer. Given her track record and ability to put down fast times when it matters, we would expect Masse to have no problems qualifying for her 3rd Olympics. Someone who has yet to make an Olympic appearance is Ingrid Wilm. Now 25 years old, she’s been swimming the best she’s ever swam in long course. She’s had more success in short course over her career but now she’s finally translating her swims to the bigger pool. Last year she broke 59 seconds for the 1st time in her career going 58.80 to stun Masse at 2023 Trials. She would follow that up with a 5th place showing at 2023 World Championships where she went 59.11. She clocked her 2nd sub 59 time at the 2024 World Championships this year where she led off the medley relay in 58.95. Having broken the minute mark 6 times this year (most recently at the Canadian Open), she’s on good track to make finally make the Olympic team. Not many people expected Summer McIntosh to swim this event but here she is as the 3rd seed. More known for her freestyle, butterfly and IM swimming, McIntosh also happens to be a world class backstroker as well. After going 1:00.25 at the 2023 Orlando Sectionals, she destroyed that mark a year later setting her current PB at 59.64. She also went 59.96 to place 2nd in this event at the Canadian Open. Given her immense talent, it’s possible she might place in the top two here. However, the chances of her actually swimming this in Paris are next to none. Taylor Ruck comes in with the 2nd fastest PB in the field but is only seeded 4th year. She had an injury plagued 2023 with her only appearances coming at a World Cup stop in Budapest where she recorded a time of 1:01.24. This year she’s swam this event at all 3 Pro Swim Series stops recording times of 1:01.04, 1:00.30 and 1:00.47. She’s trending in the right direction and if she rounds back into form, she’ll challenge for an individual spot. The backstroke events at these trials feature two of the more exciting teenagers at these trials. The first of which is Delia Lloyd. She’s shown immense improvement over the last year. After going 1:02.44 at 2023 Canadian trials, she then lowered that time to 1:01.83 at the Summer Ontario Championships before placing a respectable 5th at the World Junior Championships in 1:01.08. She’s done even better this year winning the Winter Ontario Championships in 1:00.45. She most recently went 1:00.68 at the Canadian Open. With her continued improvement, she could very well get under the OCT or even the OQT. The other exciting teenage prospect is Madison Kryger. She made waves last summer at the Canadian Championships where she become the #2 Canadian performer in the 13-14 age group. Now 15 years old, she lowered her PB to under 1:02 at the Winter Ontario Championships (1:01.48) and at the recent Canadian Open, moved her PB under 1:01 in 1:00.81. She’s got serious potential and is one to watch in this race. Men's 200m Breaststroke To be honest, I don’t have much to say about this event. With James Dergousoff not here, this event looks like it’ll be one man vs. the clock. Brayden Taivassalo will be the man to watch here. His PB of 2:10.89 is almost 4 seconds ahead of the next fastest swimmer entered in this event. Last year, he had the swim of his life to upset James Dergousoff at Canadian Trials. The 2:11.28 he swum was a whopping 7 seconds faster than he was at 2022 Trials (although he did gradually improve to a 2:14.54 before trials). He would improve on that again at the Pan American Games to win silver with a time of 2:10.89 to put him within potential striking distance of the OQT. This past year, he capped his stellar NCAA season with a win in the 200 yard breaststroke at the Big 12 Championships. He could very well be due for another time drop. After that, the times are uninspiring to say the least. Justice Migneault, Apollo Hess and Gabe Mastromatteo have all had 2:14 clockings their career. Migneault had the most recent of those times swimming at the 2023 Canadian Trials. It’ll be interesting to see if Mastromatteo can round back to his 2019-21 form. If there is a swimmer who has the potential to be the Taivassalo from last year’s trials (i.e drop serious time), it’s Oliver Dawson. Despite being born in 2008, he comes in with the 6th fastest time. After going 2:18.48 at last years’ Canadian Trials, he went 2:17.70 at the World Junior Championships and recently set a new PB of 2:17.13 at the Western Canadian Championships. Women's 1500m Freestyle Just like the men’s 200m breaststroke, this looks like a one-woman race vs. the clock especially with the absence of the likes of Katrina Bellio and Abby Dunford. Emma Finlin comes in with the top time by almost 30 seconds. She’s been on a significant improvement curve over the past few years. After being stuck in the 16:40 range for a year, she produced a time of 16:31.49 in March 2023 at the Alberta Provincial Championships before smashing that mark 27 days later at Canadian trials to record a mark of 16:20.61. She’s only swum this event twice after that though. First was a 16:15.77 at the 2023 World Championships to finish 12th. She also swam a 16:33.49 at the Western Canadian Championships. The one advantage she has over every other swimmer at these trials is that she’s already qualified for Paris in the open water events. That means that as long as she reaches the OCT of 16:13.94, she should be qualified in the 1500m freestyle too. That is a time that she’s less than two seconds away from. After Finlin, we have Laila Oravsky, Julia Strojnowska, and Megan Willar who are all in the 16:40 range. Of those swimmers, Strojnowska has the fastest season’s best and could be the swimmer who could drop a lot of time here.

Brazilian Olympic Trials: Day 2 Women's 200m Freestyle (OQT: 1:57.06) 1. Maria Costa - 1:56.37 (OQT) 2. Stephanie Balduccini - 1:58.51 3. Gabrielle Roncatto - 1:58.57 Men's 400m Individual Medley (OQT: 4:12.50) 1. Stephan Steverink - 4:16.29 2. Guilherme Kanzler - 4:20.11 3. Brandonn Almeida - 4:20.77 Women's 100m Breaststroke (OQT: 1:06.79) 1. Ana Vieira - 1:08.92 2. Gabrielle da Silva - 1:09.12 3. Jhennifer Conceicao - 1:09.25 Men's 200m Freestyle (OQT: 1:46.26) 1. Murilo Sartori - 1:46.98 2. Guilherme Costa - 1:47.10* 3. Fernando Scheffer - 1:47.60 4. Eduardo Moraes - 1:47.67 *Costa qualifies for Paris with two swimmers being unable to beat his OQT from 2024 World Championships Women's 1500m Freestyle (OQT: 16:09.09) 1. Beatriz Dizotti - 16:14.02* 2. Leticia Romao - 16:35.20 3. Delfina Dini - 16:49.55 *Dizotti qualifies for Paris with two swimmers being unable to beat her OQT from 2023 World Championships Individual Qualifiers through Day 2 Guilherme Costa - Men's 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle Maria Costa - Women's 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle Beatriz Dizotti - Women's 1500m Freestyle Gabrielle Roncatto - Women's 400m Freestyle

There is a mistake in the prediction design for the Group B matches on May 12th. Kazakhstan should be playing Slovakia and Latvia should be playing France.

*"Double-the-points" distributed as follow: Each user will have 5 during the Group stage. Each user will have to mark their matches with "Double-the-points" with an "*". Group Stage May 10th - May 21st, 2024 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 10th 2024 h. 16:20 Switzerland 3 Norway May 10th 2024 h. 20:20 Czechia 1 Finland May 11th 2024 h. 12:20 Great Britain 10* Canada May 11th 2024 h. 16:20 Austria 4 Denmark May 11th 2024 h. 20:20 Norway 7 Czechia May 12th 2024 h. 12:20 Finland 8* Great Britain May 12th 2024 h. 16:20 Denmark 4 Canada May 12th 2024 h. 20:20 Austria 5 Switzerland May 13th 2024 h. 16:20 Norway 7 Finland May 13th 2024 h. 20:20 Switzerland 1 Czechia May 14th 2024 h. 16:20 Denmark 3 Norway May 14th 2024 h. 20:20 Canada 8 Austria May 15th 2024 h. 16:20 Czechia 4 Denmark May 15th 2024 h. 20:20 Switzerland 7 Great Britain May 16th 2024 h. 16:20 Finland 8 Austria May 16th 2024 h. 20:20 Canada 8 Norway May 17th 2024 h. 16:20 Great Britain 6 Denmark May 17th 2024 h. 20:20 Czechia 6 Austria May 18th 2024 h. 12:20 Denmark 3 Switzerland May 18th 2024 h. 16:20 Canada 1 Finland May 18th 2024 h. 20:20 Czechia 8 Great Britain May 19th 2024 h. 16:20 Norway 1 Austria May 19th 2024 h. 20:20 Switzerland 2 Canada May 20th 2024 h. 16:20 Great Britain 4 Norway May 20th 2024 h. 20:20 Finland 4 Denmark May 21st 2024 h. 12:20 Austria 3 Great Britain May 21st 2024 h. 16:20 Canada 2 Czechia May 21st 2024 h. 20:20 Finland 1 Switzerland Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 10th 2024 h. 16:20 Slovakia 1 Germany May 10th 2024 h. 20:20 Sweden 2 United States May 11th 2024 h. 12:20 France 1 Kazakhstan May 11th 2024 h. 16:20 Poland 3 Latvia May 11th 2024 h. 20:20 United States 4 Germany May 12th 2024 h. 12:20 Kazakhstan 4 Slovakia May 12th 2024 h. 16:20 Latvia 2 France May 12th 2024 h. 20:20 Sweden 10* Poland May 13th 2024 h. 16:20 United States 3 Slovakia May 13th 2024 h. 20:20 Germany 3 Sweden May 14th 2024 h. 16:20 Kazakhstan 3 Latvia May 14th 2024 h. 20:20 Poland 4 France May 15th 2024 h. 16:20 Germany 2 Latvia May 15th 2024 h. 20:20 Slovakia 7 Poland May 16th 2024 h. 16:20 Kazakhstan 10 Sweden May 16th 2024 h. 20:20 United States 9 France May 17th 2024 h. 16:20 Germany 4 Kazakhstan May 17th 2024 h. 20:20 Poland 12* United States May 18th 2024 h. 12:20 Latvia 5 Sweden May 18th 2024 h. 16:20 Germany 7 Poland May 18th 2024 h. 20:20 France 4 Slovakia May 19th 2024 h. 16:20 United States 9* Kazakhstan May 19th 2024 h. 20:20 Slovakia 1 Latvia May 20th 2024 h. 16:20 Sweden 10 France May 20th 2024 h. 20:20 Kazakhstan 2 Poland May 21st 2024 h. 12:20 France 2 Germany May 21st 2024 h. 16:20 Latvia 6 United States May 21st 2024 h. 20:20 Sweden 3 Slovakia Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation USA SWE CAN

Not sure if related to injury or not but Ahmed Hafnaoui (swimming). https://swimswam.com/defending-400-freestyle-olympic-champion-ahmed-hafnaoui-will-miss-paris-olympics/

Brazilian Olympic Trials: Day 1 Women's 400m Freestyle (OQT: 4:07.90) 1. Maria Costa - 4:06.11 (OQT) 2. Gabrielle Roncatto - 4:09.00* 3. Leticia Romao - 4:10.64 *Roncatto qualifies for Paris with two swimmers being unable to beat her OQT from 2024 World Championships Men's 100m Breaststroke (OQT: 59.49) 1. Caio Pumputis - 1:00.81 2. Joao Gomes Junior - 1:01.03 3. Raphael Windmuller - 1:01.34 Women's 100m Butterfly (OQT: 57.92) 1. Daynara Paula - 1:00.00 2. Celine Bispo - 1:00.06 3. Beatriz Bezerra - 1:00.14 Men's 400m Freestyle (OQT: 3:46.78) 1. Guilherme Costa - 3:46.90* 2. Stephan Steverink - 3:47.48 3. Eduardo Moraes - 3:51.51 *Costa qualifies for Paris with two swimmers being unable to beat his OQT from 2023 World Championships Individual Qualifiers through Day 1 Guilherme Costa - Men's 400m Freestyle Maria Costa - Women's 400m Freestyle Gabrielle Roncatto - Women's 400m Freestyle

I have compiled a list of swimmers that have over 800 AQUA points in an event along with all their events they're swimming at trials (ordered by last name): Men: Javier Acevedo - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back Alexander Axon - 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free Jeremy Bagshaw - 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free Timothe Barbeau - 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free, 200 Fly, 200 IM Eric Brown - 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free, 400 IM Stephen Calkins - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Fly Paul Dardis - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Raben Dommann - 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM Ethan Ekk - 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Edouard Fullum-Huot - 50 Free, 100 Free Collyn Gagne - 200 IM, 400 IM Hayden Ghufran - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Andrew Herman - 100 Back, 200 Back Patrick Hussey - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM Tristan Jankovics - 200 Free, 200 Back, 200 IM, 400 IM Ilya Kharun - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Laon Kim - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 1500 Free, 100 Fly, 200 IM Yuri Kisil - 50 Free, 100 Free Finlay Knox - 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM Josh Liendo - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly Benjamin Loewen - 100 Back, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM Gabe Mastromatteo - 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 100 Fly Hugh McNeill - 100 Back, 200 Back Justice Migneault - 100 Free, 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM Aiden Norman - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM Sebastian Paulins - 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free Cole Pratt - 100 Back, 200 Back Antoine Sauve - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free Filip Senc-Samardzic - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly Brayden Taivassalo - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Blake Tierney - 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 IM Jordi Vilchez - 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Lorne Wigginton - 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Women: Bailey Andison - 200 IM, 400 IM Sienna Angove - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 IM, 400 IM Sophie Angus - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Shona Branton - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Julie Brousseau - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 Breast, 200 IM, 400 IM Bridget Burton - 100 Back, 200 Back Kamryn Cannings - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Tessa Cieplucha - 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Maxine Clark - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM Ella Cosgrove - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Brooklyn Douthwright - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM Sarah Fournier - 50 Free, 100 Free Emma Finlin - 800 Free, 1500 Free Katie Forrester - 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Madelyn Gatrall - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Jordan Greber - 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 200 IM Danielle Hanus - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM Kathryn Hazle - 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 400 IM Mary-Sophie Harvey - 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Kathryn Ivanov - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Ella Jansen - 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Madison Kryger - 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM Nina Kucheran - 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 200 IM Alexanne Lepage - 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 200 IM Delia Lloyd - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Maggie MacNeil - 100 Free, 100 Fly Kylie Masse - 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly Summer McIntosh - 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Back, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Ashley McMillan - 100 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM Ainsley McMurray - 50 Free, 100 Free Emma O'Croinin - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 200 IM Penny Oleksiak - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free Amaris Peng - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Sydney Pickrem - 100 Breast, 200 Breast, 200 IM, 400 IM Regan Rathwell - 50 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back Victoria Raymond - 50 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Taylor Ruck - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back Katerine Savard - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly Katelyn Schroeder - 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 IM Rebecca Smith - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly Julia Strojnowska - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM Jenna Walters - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back Mia West - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Fly Megan Willar - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free, 1500 Free Ingrid Wilm - 100 Back, 200 Back Avery Wiseman - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Kelsey Wog - 100 Breast, 200 Breast Mabel Zavaros - 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM

No Abby Dunford either.

PSYCH SHEETS!!!

Also for all the hardcore swim fans out there, I've started to do previews for Canadian trials on the Canada Club (which begin next week). I've finished the previews for the first two days. Day 1 Day 2

Brazilian Olympic Trials begin today Here's some useful links: Psych Sheets Selection Criteria Results Any Brazilians know how one can watch?

2024 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials: Day 2 Preview Image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 An epic showdown awaits in the women's 100m breaststroke Day 2 of Canadian trials may very well be the most exciting day on the program. Chances of qualifiers in every event plus two of the races I'm most looking forward to with the women's 200m freestyle and women's 100m breaststroke. Men's 400m Individual Medley Despite the difficult OQT, it’s very possible that Canada will have a representative in this event in Paris. Lorne Wigginton made waves last year when he went 4:16.14 at Canadian Trials to qualify for his first senior team. He would then smash that time at Worlds by almost 3 seconds in 4:13.75 to just miss the final. Finally, he wound bring that time down again by almost a second to win bronze at the World Junior Championships in 4:12.81. He most recently went 4:14.54 at the 2024 World Championships, a decent time 3 months from Olympic Trials. Also breaking out last year was Collyn Gagne. Like Wigginton, he also set a PB of 4:17.44 at 2023 Canadian Trials to qualify for his first senior team. He would set another PB at World Championships of 4:16.08 at World Chamionships and also had a good time of 4:17.05 at the Pan American Games to win the silver medal. More recently, he went 4:18.74 at the 2024 World Championships. He’ll still have to drop a bit of time to reach Olympic Qualification territory though. The breakout swimmer of this year could very well be Tristan Jankovics. In 2023, he had times of 4:17.40 at the Canadian Championships and 4:17.70 at the US Open. He hasn’t swum a long course time in 2024 yet but had a good NCAA season finishing 4th in the 400 yard IM at the Big Ten Championships and 8th at the NCAA championships. Eric Brown will also try to improve on his 4:18.90 PB he set at the 2023 US Open. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Lorne Wigginton Women's 200m Freestyle This event has all the makings of a bloodbath. There are 10-12 women who all have realistic chances of qualifying for the 4x200m freestyle relay. I am going to cover all the top 10 athletes because they all have a legitimate shot at making the relay. Buckle up, this is going to be a long preview. If there’s any guarantees, it’s that Summer McIntosh should win with ease. The World Junior record holder has the fastest entry time by over 3 seconds. She first broke the 1:54 barrier for the first time last year at Canadian trials to win in 1:54.13. Then she lowered that mark to 1:53.65 to win bronze at the 2023 World Championships. This year, she has already been 1:54.21 at the Canadian Open, her 4th fastest time ever and one of the fastest in season 200m freestyle performances ever. Expect her to easily get under the OQT and perhaps even challenge the 1:53 barrier if she decides to go all out. The clear favourite for 2nd place is Mary-Sophie Harvey. She has improved in this event so much this year. After setting a PB of 1:57.70 at the 2023 US Open, she’s lowered that to 1:57.26 at the Quebec Cup, 1:57.06 at the Camille Muffat Meeting and finally 1:56.76 at the Canadian Open in which she negative that race. She’ll be a favourite to get an individual and relay spot. After that, the entry list gets a bit messy with a whole bunch of 1:58s. Rebecca Smith comes in with the next fastest time. Her time of 1:58.08 comes from the 2024 World Championship where she was able to advance to the semifinal. She also has recorded a 1:58.68 from the Canadian Championships along with some other 1:59 performances. Based on her 1:55 split from the 2020 Olympics along with her 1:57.43 PB, we all know she’s capable of much better times. This event will also be another great chance for Ella Jansen to get herself on the Olympic Team. Her best time of 1:58.09 comes from the Mare Nostrum tour last year. However, she struggled at Worlds where the Canadian coaches opted not to use her in the relay finals at both the 2023 and 2024 editions. She also had a showing of 1:59.12 from the World Junior Championships. This year her best result is 1:58.88 from the Canadian Open so she is trending in the right direction. Someone who did have a good showing a the World Junior Championships was Julie Brousseau. After going 1:59.05 at 2023 Canadian Trials, she brought that down to 1:58.60 at the Ontario Summer Championships before delivering a silver medal swim of 1:58.10 at World Juniors. This year, she was just off that time in 1:58.40 at the Canadian Open. This is her best chance of making the Olympic Team so she’s right on track to drop her PB down even further. Brooklyn Douthwright had a solid showing last year to make her first world championship team. Despite only going 2:01.16 at Canadian trials, she improved on that mark considerably at the Mare Nostrum going 1:58.58 at the Mare Nostrum tour before splitting 1:58.25 on the 4x200m freestyle relay at 2023 World Championships. Last year she was the runner up at the NCAA yards version of this event but this year she didn’t make the final so hopefully that’s not a sign of regression. Last year, Emma O’Croinin had her best season since 2019 when she won 3 world junior medals and one world championship medal. Her 1:58.94 from Canadian trials qualified her for the world championship team where she went on to have a 1:58.10 in the relay prelims. She recently went 1:59.48 at the Canadian Open. Katerine Savard has been a long time relay contributer for Canada and she has a career best time of 1:57.13. However, she has yet to break the 1:59 barrier since the start of 2023 with her best time in that span being 1:59.44 at the 2023 Canadian trials. She’s failed to break 2 minutes in the other events she’s swam in. I think she’ll have a better shot of being on the 4x100m freestyle relay. But she usually saves her best swims for Canadian trials so you never know. Penny Oleksiak will be the hardest swimmer to predict here. Although she’s been as fast as 1:54.70, her times since she got injured have not been close to that time. However, after she went 2:03.27 in March at the Pro Swim Series, she followed that up with a 1:59.75 swim at the Canadian Open so she’s definitely trending the right direction. At her trajectory, she has a great chance of finishing in the top 6. Julia Strojnowska will also be looking to build off the 2:00.45 PB swim that she set at the Western Canadian Championships this year. There’s two other swimmers not in the top 10 list that I think are also worth mentioning. Taylor Ruck, like Oleksiak is capable of going 1:54 when at her best. But since her injury, she hasn’t swum the 200m freestyle all that often with her only notable result being a 1:59.59 split on the 4x200m freestyle relay at 2024 World Championships. However, we can’t judge her form on this race since she spent the first part of the race catching up to the lead teams before dying on the last 50m. If she does swim this race, you would imagine she’ll also be a factor. Then there’s Sienna Angove. Her best time is recorded as 2:00.50 but based on her 1:58.26 split at the 2024 World Championships, she should be capable of a much faster time than that. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Summer McIntosh (I am predicting she won’t swim this individually) 2. Mary-Sophie Harvey (individual + relay) 3. Julie Brousseau (individual + relay) 4. Penny Oleksiak (relay) 5. Rebecca Smith (relay) 6. Ella Jansen (relay) You can never count Penny out in an Olympic year. Men's 100m Backstroke Blake Tierney heads into the men’s 100m backstroke as the top seed. He had his first 54 second outing at the 2023 Canadian Trials in 54.49 before lowering that to 54.13 at the Canadian Championships. However, he had a breakthrough meet at the 2024 World Championships where he lead off the medley relay in times of 53.98 and 53.65 with the later getting him under the OQT. At the Canadian Open, he went 55.41 which is right around his previous in season times. Javier Acevedo is a veteran on the Canadian men’s team. While many thought his 2020 Olympic selection was questionable, he’s had a big resurgence in his times since then and now is firmly in position to make another Olympic team. This event is his best chance of getting an individual swim. Last year at Canadian trials, he clocked his best time (53.83) since 2017. While he hasn’t swam under 54 seconds since then, he tends to swim his best on home soil so the OQT should be in his sights. Raben Dommann is another swimmer that’s improved since last years trials. After swimming 55.06, he clocked 54.71 at the Canadian championships and then had a 55.09 relay leadoff at the Pan American Games. Recently he went 55.16 at the Canadian Open. If there is a swimmer who’s capable of a breakout at Olympic trials, it’s Aiden Norman. The 2006 born swimmer is ranked 2nd in Canada this season with his time of 54.77 at the World Junior Championships. He recently swam 55.13 at the Provincial Championships and 55.13 at the Fran Crippen Memorial Meet. If we compare that to his times from last year at this point in time, he could be on track for a 54-low swim. A couple of other names to monitor. Hugh McNeill did set PB in this event recently at the U-Sports Championships at 55.34. This could be a good sign for his 200m backstroke where he has the best chance to qualify for the Olympics. Cole Pratt was on track to become a world class backstroker back in 2021 before a shoulder injury in the ISL set him back. It showed last year when he only went 58.01 at Canadian trials and 59.21 at the Mare Nostrum. However, this year he’s already been as fast as 55.54 at the Canadian Open. Could be a sign of good things to come. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Blake Tierney 2. Javier Acevedo Women's 100m Breaststroke This has all the potential to be the best race of the meet. It was just a year ago that Canadian swim fans were desperate for a breaststroker and since then, 5 women have gone under 1:08. We had a sneak preview at the Canadian Open with Shona Branton beating out Kelsey Wog, Alexanne Lepage, and Sophie Angus. I’m not sure if anyone expected Alexanne Lepage to come into Olympic trials as the top seed. She was only 1:09.66 at trials last year and 1:09.07 at the Canadian Championships. Then she came out of nowhere to win gold at the World Junior Championships in 1:06.58 knocking more than 2 seconds off her previous PB. She also went 1:07.60 in the semifinal as well. This year, she has been as fast as 1:07.72. Another swimmer that’s made significant improvements is Shona Branton. After being only 1:08.77 at Canadian trials last year, she broke the 1:08 barrier for the first time at the Summer Ontario Championships going 1:07.95. Her breakout meet happened at the Euro Meet this year in January first going 1:07.10 in the heats and then 1:06.59 in the final to finish 0.01 below Lepage’s PB. She also had an impressive showing at the U-SPORTS championships where she beat Lepage in the individual event before splitting 1:06.24 on the medley relay. She recently went 1:07.40 at the Canadian Open to beat a very talented field of swimmers. Sophie Angus has won each of the last two Canadian titles in this event. She won in times of 1:07.60 and 1:07.47. After lowering her PB to 1:07.34 at the World Aquatics Championships, she had established a monster PB of 1:06.66 at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. However, her most impressive swims have arguably come in the medley relays. Since the beginning of 2023, she has always been in the 1:06 range with her best times being 1:06.21 and 1:06.24 from the 2023 and 2024 World Championships. Although her entry time is a ways behind, it would be unwise to count Kelsey Wog out of the picture. She still has the fastest PB in the field at 1:06.44 and recently set a short course PB at 1:04.22. She’s recently been 1:07.35 at the Western Canadian Championships and 1:07.52 at the Canadian Open to just finish behind Branton. Despite being 26 years old, Sydney Pickrem might be swimming the best she ever has now. Although her entry time is only 1:07.84, she recorded the fastest breakstroke split in her career at the 2024 World Championships in 1:06.14 showing she can swim in the 1:06 range. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Shona Branton 2. Sophie Angus Branton has been swimming the best of any sprint breaststroker this season and Angus has shown she can get it done in the high pressure events.

Vegas Golden Knights are out!!!

The World Relays thread on the main forum

Giulia Senn breaks the hearts of a 2nd nation tonight

Liberia completely messed up the 2nd exchange

only a yellow card

well there is still the world rankings I guess

Finally a quota for the Bahamas!

Yes I mentioned that in the writeup . I still included a paragraph about him just in case he's a late entry.

2024 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials: Day 1 Preview *Image Source Maggie MacNeil is set to take on her signature 100m butterfly event Unfortunately, psych sheets aren't out yet but I need to start doing these if I want to finish in time before trials begin. Men's 400m Freestyle The men’s 400m freestyle will be the event that kicks off Canadian Trials. This is an event that has stalled since Ryan Cochrane retired but there is reason for optimism thanks to a pair of swimmers breaking the 3:50 mark. The first of which is Lorne Wigginton. Wigginton emerged as one of Canada’s top prospects last year. There is actually a chance he doesn’t end of swimming this event since it comes one day before his signature 400 IM event at the Olympics. If he does, he’s definitely a contender to not only win but get under the OQT. He finished 3rd at last year’s Canadian trials in 3:54.73 before smashing his PB by over 4 seconds in the heats of the World Junior Championships in 3:50.72. He would then take it down to 3:49.05 in the final. This year, his times have been a bit slower though (since moving from USC to Toronto HPC). His most recent performances have been a 3:58.07 at the US Open, 3:50.91 at 2024 Worlds and 3:53.40 at the Canadian Open. However, I’m sure he can get back down in the high 3:40s with a good taper. Someone who is trending in the right direction though is Alexander Axon. The Ohio State swimmer had a solid NCAA season finishing 3rd in the 500yd freestyle at the Big Ten Championships. After going 3:55.07 at last year’s Trials, he’s brought down his PB 4 times most recently at the Canadian Open where he dipped under the 3:50 mark for the first time in 3:49.33. Of course, we can’t forget about last year’s Trials winner Eric Brown. We haven’t seen him race too much this year but his results are trending in the right direction. His most recent long course result was 3:53.14 at the 2023 US Open which is over a second faster than he was at the 2022 edition. Jeremy Bagshaw does have the 2nd fastest PB in the field at 3:48.82 but that was back in 2017 and I would be shocked if he was in contention here. This will also likely be the first event for 15 year old phenom Laon Kim. While the OQT is well out of reach for him at the moment, he’ll be looking to build off the NAG of 3:56.79 he set at last years trials. He’ll have a better shot at the 200m freestyle. Also looking to build off their PBs this season will be Timothe Barbeau, Jordi Vilchez and Patrick Hussey. Predicted Qualifiers: None Despite the improvements from the top swimmers, I don’t see anyone breaking the OQT. I think Axon has a good chance of getting under the consideration time but the OQT might be just out of reach. Women's 400m Freestyle There will be different races going on at once here. The first will be Summer McIntosh against the clock. The 2nd will be the battle for a potential 2nd qualification spot. It was last year at the 2023 Trials that Summer McIntosh broke the 400m freestyle World record in 3:56.08. The record has since been broken by Ariarne Titmus but she has still consistently gone sub 4 minutes every time she has swum the event at competitions. We can expect her to get under the OQT with ease. In fact, even her 400m split from her 800m freestyle swim in February of 4:03.63 would still have been over 4 seconds under the OQT. More interesting is the battle for 2nd place. Ella Jansen is currently the 2nd seed with her time of 4:07.18 from last March at the TYR Pro Swim Series. On paper, she’s by far the 2nd fastest swimmer in the race but she has shown some inconsistency as of late. She was 4:08.81 at last years Canadian trials before going 4:12.77 in the heats at the 2023 World Championships. She bounced back a bit at the World Junior Championships in 4:09.48 (on the same day as a 200m IM double) but then went 4:17.01 at the 2024 World Championships. She did go 4:11.54 recently at the Canadian Open though so she seems to be heading in the right direction. She also has the advantage of having already achieved the OQT during the qualification period. Remember that Swimming Canada does accept OQT times from outside trials for swimmers that place in the top 2. The other contenders for the 2nd spot will likely be Mabel Zavaros and Julie Brousseau. Zavaros has a PB of 4:10.96 from last years trials but she has only one result this year of 4:15.25 at the Canadian Open. However, given her trajectory from last year and her ability to perform in high level meets, it’s fair to say that she will be a factor in this race. Julie Brousseau meanwhile has emerged as one of the top Canadian swimming prospects. While she has a bigger chance to make the team in the 200m freestyle, she could be a factor here. She was 4:14.10 at last years Canadian Trials before dropping 3 seconds at World Juniors to finish in a time of 4:11.38. She would later bring it down to 4:11.32 at the Pan Am Games. In 2024 her best has been a 4:14.59 at the Winter Ontario Championships but it’s still 4 seconds than she was last year at this time so she could be in for another big time drop at Olympic Trials. The rest of the field is a bit of a ways behind. Katrina Bellio has been 4:11.06 but hasn’t recorded a long course time this year. Emma O’Croinin has been as fast as 4:08.11 but that was some time ago. The other swimmers on the top 10 list are all still quite aways from the pace and haven’t improved on their PBs yet this season. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Summer McIntosh 2. Ella Jansen Summer winning is pretty straight forward. I still think Jansen will beat out the other competitors and her getting the OQT in the qualification period will play to her advantage. Women's 100m Butterfly This has the potential to be a fun race. Not surprisingly, Maggie Mac Neil comes in as the top seed for this event. The 2020 Olympic Champion is seeded at 56.45 from the 2023 World Championships but has been as fast as 55.59. This season she has shown that she can consistently put up 57 second clockings at in season meets most recently going 57.24 at the Canadian Open. We can expect her to qualify for the Olympics with ease. Katerine Savard comes in with the next fastest time. The now 30 year old has been a mainstay on the Canadian Team for over a decade now and is looking to qualify for her 4th Olympics. Her time of 57.86 from last years trials is under the OQT so as long as she finishes in the top 2, she’ll be off to Paris. However, her results since Trials haven’t been as good. Her fastest time since then is a 58.18 from the 2023 World Championships. She went 58.73 at the 2024 World Championships and most recently went 59.57 at the Eastern Canadian Championships. Also looking to snatch an Olympic spot is Mary-Sophie Harvey. The 24 year old is swimming better than she ever has setting PB’s in multiple events including the 100m butterfly where she went 58.05 last month at the Canadian Open. She didn’t swim this at last years Trials but she has mentioned that she does intend to this year. Also looking to get an Olympic spot is Rebecca Smith. She took most of last year off to focus her nursing degree. So far this season, she’s posted times of 58.72 at the Canadian Championships, 59.50 at the Rotterdam Qualification Meet, 59.54 at the Western Canadian Championships and most recently a 59.49 at the Canadian Open. She also had a 58.28 split on the bronze winning medley relay at 2024 Worlds. Still a ways off the OQT but with I believe she can get close with a full taper. Kamryn Cannings could also have something to say in this race. She had a nice freshman season at Liberty University winning the Atlantic Sun Championship title in the 100 yard butterfly. After going 58.67 at Canadian Trials last year, she went 59.15 at the Canadian Championships and most recently, 1:00.18 at the TYR Pro Swim Series in San Antonio. Another big time drop could be possible. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Maggie Mac Neil 2. Mary-Sophie Harvey Harvey is swimming lights out right now and I’m picking her to keep up her momentum here. Men's 100m Breaststroke I’m just going to cut straight to the chase here, I don’t see anyone getting under the OQT. As you can see by the entry times, no one is even in the same atmosphere. James Dergousoff has won the 100m breaststroke title at Canadian trials each of the last two years. After going 1:01.27 to win 2023 trials, he’s improved on that time most recently going 1:00.77 at the 2024 World Championships. *Note: As of writing this, I’m seeing reports that Dergousoff isn’t actually on the psych sheets. Not sure if it’s a late entry or not but it’s something worth monitoring. Finlay Knox comes in as the 2nd seed. This will likely be the 1st event for the 2024 World Champion in the 200m IM. It remains to be seen whether or not he’ll actually swim this event but if he does, he has a good chance of winning as his PB is only 0.14 seconds behind that of Dergousoff. He set that time recently at the Canadian Open bringing it down by 0.38 seconds from March 2023. Gabe Mastromatteo hasn’t quite lived up to the hype he had as a teenager but his results have been trending the right direction. Last year at Canadian trials he went 1:00.96, his fastest time since 2020 Olympic Trials and then followed that up with a 1:01.39 at the Pan American Games. Brayden Taivassalo has been having a great year. He’s a better 200m breaststroker but could also make some noise in this event. He finished 2nd at the Big 12 Championships in the NCAA this year. He hasn’t raced long course in 2024 but his best time is from the 2023 Canadian Trials at 1:01.10. Justice Migneault and Apollo Hess will also look to get in the mix. Predicted Qualifiers: 1. Finlay Knox (relay only) Going with the guy with the best trajectory here. Let me know if you guys have any feedback or discussion points surrounding any of the swimmers mentioned/not mentioned!

Yet another Game 7 loss by the Maple Leafs

Rough night for Jamaican relays so far

I am hoping that Savannah Sutherland will be integrated into the relay in Paris.