The nation’s best swimmers competed at the U.S. Olympic trials in hopes of joining Team USA, and some well-known names have already punched their tickets along with the next generation of young stars. NBC’s Jesse Kirsch reports for TODAY.
U.S. men’s swimming coach Anthony Nesty initially only swam because his father made him. “I didn’t enjoy swimming,” he tells TODAY.com in an interview. “Why he chose swimming, I think, is because of the discipline of the sport,” Nesty adds. “It’s just you and the clock.” His first swim at 5 in a Learn to Swim program was in the country he grew up in, Suriname, where at the time there was only one Olympic-sized 50-meter pool, Nesty says.
” His ascension into the USA Swimming head coach role is particularly significant given the complicated history of Black people and swimming in the U.S. and the stereotype that they cannot swim. Access to swimming spaces directly correlates to whether Black people swim, Nesty and experts say. Nesty chats more below about his father, roster building for the Olympics and why there aren’t more Black swimmers in the sport.
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