USA Swimming needs to determine who will represent the United States in the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics, and they’ll do that with the Olympic swimming trials, running from June 26 through July 3 in Omaha, Neb. That means the trials will get underway proper on Sunday, the same day that USA Diving will wrap up its own trials.
Michael Phelps is obviously the biggest name in the sport of swimming today. He’s a big part of the reason why it’s so big, on top oft he fact that the United States has typically been dominant in the sport of swimming. After the London 2012 Olympics, the US leads with 520 total medals, with the next-closest being Australia all the way back at 178 medals. The US has 230 gold medals, 18 of which have come thanks to Phelps.
On Sunday, Phelps will be in action. He’s scheduled for five events in the trials: the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly, the 200-meter individual medley and the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events. He’ll also try and convince coach Bob Bowman that he can be in the 4×100-meter and 4×200-meter relays.
But Phelps won’t be swimming on Sunday. For the men, preliminaries for the 400-meter individual medley, 400-meter freestyle and 100-meter breaststroke will be held on Sunday. Ryan Lochte will be in action, though, and entered in the 400-meter individual medley despite suggesting in the past that he was done in the event. He’s the defending champion in that event.
Lochte will also be entered in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyles, the 200-meter backstroke, the 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley.
Sunday’s trials are going to get underway at 11 a.m. ET. There will be no television broadcast for these preliminaries, but a live stream will be available at NBC Sports. The day’s events are scheduled to last around three hours.
Olympic trials swimming coverage for Sunday (all times ET)
Events: Men’s 400-meter individual medley, 400-meter freestyle and 100-meter breaststroke & women’s 100-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley
Time: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Streaming: NBC Sports
