The 18-year-old Grimes punched her ticket to her second Summer Games by managing a non-stop 25-hour event schedule in Indianapolis.
With a hand on a railing to steady her wobbly legs, Katie Grimes descended the stairs from the competition pool at Lucas Oil Stadium. It was 1:07 p.m. Tuesday. Grimes had just completed what might have been the most difficult 25 1/2 hours inFrom late Monday morning to early Tuesday afternoon, the 18-year-old Grimes swam a total of 2,500 meters in competition. There were two rounds of the 400 individual medley, one 200 freestyle and one 1,500 free—a massive workload.
Her winning time of 4:35 flat in the 400 IM was about 2 1/2 seconds off her lifetime best. And she was never really a factor in the 200 free, which is probably too short a distance—and too soon on the heels of the 400—to suit her. But the fact that she even dared to try the double, while knowing the preliminaries of the mile were looming the next day, was a testament to ambition and extreme fitness.
But that's how the Sandpipers of Nevada tend to roll. Coach Ron Aitken’s Las Vegas-based club team trains big yardage and makes big demands of its swimmers—many of them in the top training group are home-schooled, for instance, to facilitate the training schedule. The recent results speak for themselves: Grimes, Bella Sims and Erica Sullivan all made the 2021 Olympics; now Grimes will be joined in Paris by 17-year-old teammate Claire Weinstein, who made the team in the 200 freestyle Monday.
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