If you're interested in watching several UVA and future Hoo swimmers, here's the daily schedule of events and access to other info.
https://swimswam.com/how-to-watch-the-2024-olympic-games-in-the-united-states/
(and another great article on Kate Douglass here)
NBC will do a nice job broadcasting Olympic Swimming.
But with its usual strategy of showing a jumble of events and stories, it's a guess when each event will actually air each afternoon.
If you really want to dial it in, here are the Finals sessions for which UVA swimmers have a high probability of reaching or are in serious medal contention.
Remember, semifinals occur on NBC the day BEFORE each of these finals sessions (with a few exceptions like 400 Free and IM).
Finals sessions
1) Saturday, July 27th - Women's 4x100 Free Relay and Women's 400 Free
Final shoutout to Claire Curzan and Jack Aikins, who heartbreakingly missed the Olympics by a total of 0.26 seconds in 3 events between them.
https://swimswam.com/how-to-watch-the-2024-olympic-games-in-the-united-states/
(and another great article on Kate Douglass here)
NBC will do a nice job broadcasting Olympic Swimming.
But with its usual strategy of showing a jumble of events and stories, it's a guess when each event will actually air each afternoon.
If you really want to dial it in, here are the Finals sessions for which UVA swimmers have a high probability of reaching or are in serious medal contention.
Remember, semifinals occur on NBC the day BEFORE each of these finals sessions (with a few exceptions like 400 Free and IM).
Finals sessions
1) Saturday, July 27th - Women's 4x100 Free Relay and Women's 400 Free
- Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh Free relay
- Australians favored to win, but will hopefully be a very close one...
- Paige Madden 400 Free
- Gretchen Walsh, who broke the World Record at Trials
- Emma Weber - surprise 2nd at Trials, but has been swimming great with a good chance to Final
- Gretchen Walsh in Freestyle (Kate Douglass won Trials, but decided not to swim to focus on other events and relays)
- Australians favored again - Gretchen will have an opportunity to medal, but needs to take a big step
- Thomas Heilman in Butterfly (future Hoo)
- Kate Douglass with excellent chance to win Gold, but tough race among top 3
- 200 IM one of the barnburner events of the Olympics - total tossup down to the touch
- Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh among 4 best swimmers in the world, racing Kaylee McKeown and Summer McIntosh
- Alex defending Olympic silver medalist; Kate defending bronze medalist
- But top times are almost 2 seconds faster now than gold medal time from Tokyo
- Paige Madden in 800 Free
- Thomas Heilman a stretch to make 100 Butterfly final, but keep an eye on it
- Gretchen Walsh in Free with good medal chance
- Kate Douglass and Gretchen in Medley relay, perhaps chasing World Record (most likely Gretchen on Fly and Kate on Free)
Final shoutout to Claire Curzan and Jack Aikins, who heartbreakingly missed the Olympics by a total of 0.26 seconds in 3 events between them.
