Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has didn’t advance from the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle in his first occasion of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials
OMAHA, Neb. — Olympic champion Ryan Lochte didn’t advance from the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle on Monday, his first occasion of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.
The 36-year-old Lochte, making an attempt to make his fifth Olympic staff, posted a time of 1 minute, 49.23 seconds — solely ok for twenty fifth place general.
The highest 16 superior to the night semifinals, led by Kieran Smith at 1:46.54. Caeleb Dressel was second in 1:46.63.
Smith received the 400 free on Sunday to earn his first journey to the Olympics.
Lochte was additionally entered Monday within the 100 backstroke, however he scratched that occasion. Defending Olympic champion Ryan Murphy simply superior from the preliminaries, as did 36-year-old Matt Grevers, the 2012 gold medalist.
Although Lochte initially entered six occasions on the trials, it seems the 200 particular person medley is the one race during which he has any lifelike shot of incomes a visit to Tokyo. He scratched the 400 IM on Sunday.
Lochte has received 12 Olympic medals, together with six golds. Now married with two kids, he hopes to make it to 1 extra Olympics to erase the stigma of an incident on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games, the place he lied about being robbed at gunpoint.
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