SWIMMING

Well, that was as fast as Caeleb Dressel swimming the 50-meter freestyle.

We lost a lot last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those things was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The US swimming trials are in the books and the results are in.

Caeleb Dressel looks ready for Tokyo.

Caeleb Dressel is heading back to the Olympics.

Qualifying for the Team USA swimming team picks back up Sunday and quite a few local swimmers will be in the mix.

The race to make the U.S. Olympic swimming team begins on Friday in Omaha, Neb. Six swimmers with area ties compete in the first wave of qualifying over the next four days.

The Olympics countdown is on and Ryan Murphy is ready.

The Bolles girls have 33 in all, including 27 straight. The girls team had a close call in 2016 with a 10-point team win over Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest, but haven’t been threatened before or since that. Bolles has 35 boys qualifiers (32 individuals and all three relay teams), making its depth. The Bolles girls have similar depth, with 29 individual qualifiers and all three relay teams. Creekside’s girls team brought home the Class 4A team state championship last week.

Charles Cobbert was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 3 and at age 17, he is competing in the swimming nationals. Meg Oliver reports on how the repetitive aerobic activity helps to reduce the autistic behavior.