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First let me start off by saying last night was AWESOME! The Men’s 200 Breaststroke was possibly the most exciting race of the trials, and some of the other races (Men’s 100 Free) also lived up to the hype. Hopefully tonight will have a couple of more good races, with a few surprises sprinkled in….
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**Editors note-this blog was originally posted on June 30th, 2016 Unfortunately today we have a very small window to write this post, so we’ll keep this short and sweet…. Men’s 200 Breaststroke 1-Kevin Cordes 2-Will Licon Josh Prenot will certainly be in the mix, but we think Cordes is the sure fire winner, with Licon…
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A little late posting this entry, but with all of the swimming going on this week, it is easy to get distracted. As a brief recap, we have done okay with a few of our picks, but there have been some great surprises over the past couple of nights. Our favorite surprises have been- 1)…
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With day 1 full of some solid races, upsets, and some decent swims, day 2 (tonight) should provide a few more competitive races. The Men’s 100 Breaststroke final should prove to be the most interesting of the 3 final races (other 2 being Women’s 100 Fly and 400 Fr…both of which have a more spread…
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Day 2 of the OT finals will bring us the following events- Women’s 100 Fly, Men’s 100 Breaststroke, Women’s 400 Freestyle Here are our picks for each…. Women’s 100 Fly 1-Dana Vollmer 2-Kelsi Worrell Vollmer and Worrell seem to be the 2 most popular choices for qualifying in this event. Vollmer is the 2012 Olympic…
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Once every 4 years, swimming jumps into the media as one of the most heavily watched Olympic sports in the world. As a coach and former swimmer, this is always AWESOME. Swim races aired on television (relevant channels at that), coverage of the journeys many of these athletes have taken to get to this point…
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