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Prelims Day 3 Recap

Men's 50 Breast

 No Arno Kamminga. No Adam Peaty.

I'm not sure how Brazilian male swimmers all swim forever, but Junior Gomes (36 years old) and Silva Franca (35 years old) are on through to Semis. Gomes with the 3rd fastest time. 

If anyone knows how to shake off a bad swim, it's Michael Andrew. 

Turkish short course destroyer, Emri Sakci, is just 13th.

Predictions?The 50 Fly was Michael Andrew's first Long Course World Champs medal. I suspect that tomorrow will be his 2nd. He will need to perform perfectly to beat the Italian, Nic Martinenghi. Both will be in the middle of the pool tonight in SF's.

Women's 200 Free

Some girls were cruising this morning. Others, not so much. 

I've thought all lead up that this is Mollie O's event and nobody is going to take it away from her. But, let's see how Semis go.

Taylor Ruck (CAN), Claire Weinstein (USA), and Muhan Tang (CHN) need to get after it tonight to move on.

Predictions?I'm feeling bullish on Freya Anderson and Penny Oleksiak. 

Men's 200 Fly

Did Kristof Milak get bored of swimming way faster than everybody ever? Seems as though his new fav event is the 100 Free. This will be a walk in the park.

There's another young Polish kid throwing down some serious times. Krzysztof Chmielewski 1:55.7 in Prelims just ahead of Luca Urlando (7th). 

Leon is back after being on top of the world. Chad Le Clos did not swim. 

Predictions?It's a deep field. You'll probably need to be under 1:55 to make the Big Dawg Heat. It's setting up to be the Tokyo podium all over again.

Men's 800 Free

Lukas Martens adds 14 seconds from his 741 just a couple months ago - he will not be swimming in Finals. His counterpart, Olympic Champ Florian Wellbrock, will be, though. 

Milo Romanchuk gets to pick the walk out song. I'd probably pick Du Hast just to get into Florian's head. Do you hate me, Florian? Do you?

Italy's got their two stallions (Detti & G Palt) on either side of them.

All the while Bobby Finke is lurking...

Predictions?How do you stop a freight train like Bobby Finke from running your ass down? 

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