Swimming is an incredibly cruel sport.
You get one chance. Every 4 years to qualify for the Olympics.
If you don't perform on the 1 day of Olympic Trials, you don't go. Period. It doesn't matter if you are capable of better, you don't perform for the 1 min, 2 mins or 4 mins etc of your event, you miss out.
A good friend of mine went 0.30 seconds slower than his PB at Olympic Trials in March, and that was the difference between an Olympic spot and not making the team.
Like Michael Phelps the night before, James Magnussen found out just how cruel the sport can be.
He went so close to winning Australia's first gold medal in the Men's 100m Freestyle, only to fall an agonising 0.01 seconds short. Now he has to wait until Rio in 2016 for another shot. That is the nature of the beast.
Hopefully he'll swim well in the 50m and maybe, just maybe, he can win Australia another gold medal!
xx love Breanna
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