Links of The Week March 28th

It has been a long time since the last "Links of The Week with Tmacswims" and taking a recent look at different swimming websites over the weekend I noticed a lot of awesome reads. Here is just a taste of some of the articles I have been reading. Enjoy.

NBC to broadcast U.S. Olympic Trials for several sports, including Swimming
Swimming has always been a sport in Canada that lacks any real media coverage. Our friends across the border saw non-stop live coverage of NCAA on ESPN networks for both men and women. What did Canadians get for CIS champs? A cute little live stream. Nothing exciting compared to the U.S. having said that it is a plus the CIS champs were online live, if only major networks could see the benefit in airing swimming. The U.S. is going to have wall-wall coverage of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials on NBC and NBCS with taped playback coverage likely on TV. All eyes will be on the states as Phelps swims in his final Olympic Trials ever. (Unless he decides to change his mind again and go for 2020 Olympics...)

Texas Cleans up @ NCAA Champs
For the last week the big hype in swimming has been the mens NCAA champs. After a successful laddies champs in the previous week with records being broken all over the place, high expectations were set for the men. In the end, the men from Texas were crowned team champs. Along the way, though, records were being broken left, right and centre. All I have to say is U.S. Olympic Trials will be big and lets hope the record breaking trend continues for the U.S. because they are showing the world they are ready and on fire!

Teammates hope to make Olympic Relay team
As Canada's Olympic Trials will take place next week 4 swimmers from the national centre that train together daily are hoping to all be part of the women's 4 x 100 freestyle relay. Check out the 4 minute video click in the link, truly worth wild watch.

Swimming back where is belongs!
The 2016 Olympic Swimming Trials for Canada will be back on the Canadian leading network (CBC) after not being on CBC in 2012. After a successful 2015 Pan Am Games coverage it is true to say the coverage for Olympic Trials will be impressive. Canadian's will be able to watch finals daily LIVE online via live stream with play by play and race analysis, as well on deck interviews with new team members to team Canada.