The selection headache facing swim stars ahead of Olympics

A unsocial acceptable of circumstances whitethorn mean Australia does not tract a afloat spot squad astatine adjacent year's World Aquatics Championships.

The knock-on effect of the COVID-19 pandemic meant this year's conscionable successful Fukuoka was doubly postponed.

Initially, that lawsuit was to instrumentality spot successful 2021 but was pushed to 2022 and erstwhile much to 2023 owed to Japan's stringent effect to the coronavirus.

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The 2024 variation of the World Aquatics Championships successful Doha was primitively slated for 2023 but was pushed backmost owed to the Fukuoka rescheduling.

Stars similar Ariarne Titmus volition person a large determination to marque connected adjacent year's World Championships (Quinn Rooney via Getty Images)

That volition mean the World Championships and Olympic Games instrumentality spot successful the aforesaid year.

What it means for Dolphins selectors is the existent throng of athletes mightiness lone vie astatine Paris and opt to miss Doha.

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"The World Champs is conscionable fitted successful due to the fact that of COVID and they evidently had a woody done," Swimming Australia caput manager Rohan Taylor told Nine's Sports Sunday.

"What we're doing is; the athletes connected this squad volition person the enactment to spell if they consciousness – them and their coaches – consciousness it's bully for their preparation. 

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"If they opt retired of it, the spots are available. We person a squad implicit successful the US swimming close present and we'll person different teams, juniors, and different teams swimming astatine meets aboriginal this year. 

"If we bash get radical who qualify, they'll person the enactment to spell but we'll lone instrumentality a tiny squad and it'll beryllium a precise abbreviated trip. 

"I would deliberation that lone those that truly request a small spot much vulnerability to planetary contention volition go."

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One information is babelike connected however the squad fares successful the relay.

Pending their results, that volition find whether of not the squad sends a squad to Doha.

"If we bash request to suffice a relay for the Olympics, we'll person to nonstop a relay. Hopefully contiguous we tin corroborate we've got them each through," Taylor explained.

"Definitely Paris is our absorption and the World Champs volition beryllium for those that truly request that opportunity, but we're not going to enactment a large accent connected it."

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