Carson Foster

Right.

Like Carson Foster.

And so I showed up to Olympic trials just hoping to get top six in the country so that I could say I made the national team.

Then I made semifinals.

And there are a few American swimmers that did qualify already through that.

Those swimmers are Luke Barr, Carson Foster, and then according to Swim Slam, either Shane Costas or Anna Poplowski.

They said they reached out to World Aquatics for comment, didn't get here anything back from them.

But Poplowski is entered at this meet where Shane Costas is not.

One more thing I want to touch on with, with this meet.

luke barr carson foster shane costas absent uh there's been a lot of talk about the world cup or the world championship wild card that's been earned or potentially earned through uh the world cup ann peplowski is pretty much a shoe in on the women's side to get a wild card but um there's only three wild cards available Bar, Foster, and Costas are not at this meet.

Piplowski is.

After the way Luke Bar swam at World Cup, you've got to imagine he's probably going to be one of the selections.

Yeah, which so for Luke Barr, I don't I don't see at this point, I don't see why he wouldn't go to that meet.

He was on fire at the World Cup unless he wants to go to US Open to swim long course, which I don't I just don't know his prerogative or schedule.

I know for Carson Foster, he chose to go to the World Cup because from what we were told, Bob Bowman at the beginning of this fall told his swimmers, either do world cup or do worlds like do one or the other.

And, uh, he like, he gave kind of gave everyone that choice.

There

was like a. Carson Foster.

Yeah.

400 free triple crown.

How difficult it is to be consistent and, and to be consistently putting up very, very good performances over the course of two or three weeks, you know, when you're racing for three days at a time.

Um, because we saw, I think a few of, of our like top athletes at this meet, not falter, but like you could see that they were tired or you could see like something happened, you know, it's like Carson Foster.

I don't think one, a event after, after winning the 400 free, uh, once after winning the 400, I am twice after winning a distance event, I think once or twice, but, um, he, he didn't win a single event and he kind of, he posted about it and was like, I got tired, like mentally, emotionally, physically, like the, this last stop kind of caught up to me.

And he was, he, he, uh, finished on the podium and all of his events, but you know, he fell off a little bit.

Right.

Because again, it's like, if, if this is the only destination, then you have a whole subset of athletes who are just not, it's just doesn't feel accessible.

And we talked to, we talked to Carson Foster and he even mentioned, he's like, I'm on the road for like, almost a month, I'm just elsewhere in the world.

And I think, I wish there was maybe a week in between each stop because it just, it almost felt like it, watered down the sense of the competition.

He certainly is, and I, I guess from, from one crown to another, this one didn't go the way that we would've expected pre-race.

The men's 400 IM, I mean, again, not playing favorites, but my heart breaks for Carson Foster.

He has had one hell of a 48 hours.

Yeah, two crowns busted in the last, uh, last two nights, the 400 free and the 400 IM.

So not only are they able to win the crown, but they are getting overall money as well, which is far, far greater.

Yeah.

I mean, on-- to Carson Foster's point, it's the contrary for Lucas Henvoe.

He got better and better and better.

Were they American swims?

Yeah, Carson Foster-

[laughs] Okay, sure

... and Shane Casas.

Those are Americans.

Yeah.

So Carson Foster swam the 400 free in Baku and Tashkent.

Um, he took second place in the 200 IM.