Canada’s delayed Olympic swim trials to start Saturday at Toronto’s Pan Am Sports Centre
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The Olympic swim trials start Saturday in Toronto’s Pan Am Sports Centre after cancellation in 2020 and a pair of postponements in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just over 180 swimmers were invited from 64 clubs to race for spots on the 2021 Olympic team under pandemic protocols and restrictions at the Pan Am Sports Centre. This year’s trials in April were postponed to May and again to June as Ontario grappled with high rates of infection. “In talking with athletes and talking with coaches, they were just desperate for some sort of certainty.”Swimming Canada invoked an unforeseen circumstances clause in January to nominate a half-dozen athletes in events in which they excel: Oleksiak, Thormeyer, world champion backstroker Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ont., world champion butterflyer Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., and Sydney Pickrem of Clearwater, Fla.
“Not having that, it can stress you out if you get to trials and you haven’t had a long-course race in 15 months.”
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