Australia’s swimmers are wasting no time as the opening day of competition at the Paris Olympics fast approaches.
Spots for the Paris team are not up for grabs just yet but the championships will provide a decent gauge on who is in form and who has work to do before the trials. It is a high-calibre field, with all the country’s best swimmers attending.“This meet coming up really signifies we’re close to the action,” Taylor said. “The most important thing is we get to see where everybody’s at.
Selected athletes will depart Australia several days later for a staging camp in France before entering the village on July 23.Australia’s backstroke champion Kaylee McKeown continues to post sharp times. She was less than a quarter of a second outside her world record in the 100m backstroke when shein Sydney last month. She will also race the 200m backstroke and 200m individual medley in Paris if everything goes to plan.in the men’s 50m freestyle at the world championships in Doha.
“He’s done a number of training blocks up here on the Coast in the past few years,” Taylor said of Chalmers. “Because he’s familiar with it, he was keen to give it a go. We obviously wanted to support him. I see him quite regularly up here and he seems to be settled really well.”