Newcomers pushing out veterans at US Olympic swim trials

But it’s who the Virginia senior-to-be lost to that made this swim remarkable.

Everyone loses to Ledecky; it’s just a matter of margin of defeat.

Three Ridgefield High School students and RAC swimmers, AJ Bornstein, Marcie Maguire, and Kieran Smith are participating in the USA Swimming Olympic Trials at the Centurylink Center in Omaha, NE this week!

That is the new measure of competing with Katie. Yet, her races continue to spark keen interest, fans yearning to see what she’ll do next.

Usually, the rest of the world is left with little more than rumor of her passing – the bubbles and waves of her wake as Ledecky pulls farther away.

In the 100 fly, defending Olympic champion Vollmer led at the turn, but the late-blooming Worrell rallied on the return lap to post the second-fastest time in the world this year at 56.48.

Dilsaver said she knows the Swim Trials will be her stiffest competition to date.

Haas’ time of 1:45.66 means the first-time Olympian is now the ninth-fastest American 200-metre freestyler of all time, and the seventh-fastest in the world this year.

He was more than a second ahead of the next-fastest swimmer in the semifinals of the 200 butterfly, powering through the water easily while his 7-week-old son, Boomer, watched from the stands, his mother covering the infant’s ears as the crowd roared for his dad.

“We all know about the fact that she has basically been undefeated over the last four years in every major event that she has swum in, but it’s the way that she goes about it, you know, that’s much more impressive”, Gaines said.

But Ledecky exhausted a bit over the final 200, another world mark slipping away when she touched in 3:58.98 seconds. But hey, Leah, great job! “I made the team, and I’m happy”.

It is, in fact, a Ledecky family trait. “He just said get up there and go”. She owns eight of the top 10 performances of all time. At least she has a lot of famous company.

Katie Ledecky won the event, barely failing to set another world record. At the 50-meter mark she was.51 seconds ahead of world-record pace, and the noise started.

Ledecky, back in the pool 12 hours after posting the third fastest swim all-time in the 400 free, clocked the top effort in the 200 free heats of 1:55.60. “I get super excited in the morning and have to race”.

“That’s fast”, Ledecky said. “I’m probably more pumped about (Smith’s) race than mine”.

Wednesday’s prelims will include the men’s 100-meter freestyle (Zach Apple, Colin Bone, Kyle Darmody, Zane Grothe), the women’s 200-meter butterfly (Bailey Nero) and the men’s 200-meter breaststroke (Tommy Brewer, Michael Duderstadt, Bryar Long). “It’s harder here”, he said. “That’s a good thing to see as I’m on my way out”. The 33-year-old likely missed out on her best chance to make the team in an individual event, though there’s a chance she could still qualify in a relay.

Lochte failed to qualify in the 400-meter individual medley – the event in which he’s the reigning Olympic gold medalist – on Sunday night.