2008 Australian Swimming Championships
- 2008 Australian Swimming Championships
=Events=
wimming
From 22 March 2008 to 29 March 2008, the 2008 Olympic Team Swimming Trials took place at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. Like all other Australian Swimming Trials, the eight day Olympic Trials program mirrored the 2008 Olympic swimming program. The Olympic Trials also acted as the 2008 National Championships, including non-Olympic events - 50 m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly; 800 m freestyle (men) and 1500 m freestyle (women). Due to strong performances, two additional members were added to the Australian Olympic swim team. Nick Ffrost and Felicity Galvez both finished seventh in their 200 m freestyle events. Additionally, Felicity Galvez, finished third in the women's 200 m butterfly. It is assumed Galvez will swim the heat of the 4x100m medley relay with Libby Trickett likely to swim the freestyle leg, elevating Jessicah Schipper into the butterfly position. This however has created controversy with freestyler Andrew Mewing appealing his non selection after finishing 8th with an A qualifying time, whilst Galvez was selected via a B qualifying time, that ranked her 9th in the 200m Freestyle. Mewing lost his appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Adam Lucas finished second in both the 200m and 400m Individual Medley events, but was not selected because he swam a B qualifying time, rather than an A qualifying time. These are the only events on the Australian roster that remain without a second qualifier.
Australian Olympic Team News
During the early hours of March 30, 2008, Nick D'Arcy was involved in an altercation with a fellow Australia swimmer, Simon Cowley. Cowley was a winner of three gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. D'Arcy is now facing possible expulsion from the 2008 Olympic team. In his own decision, D'Arcy withdrew from the upcoming 2008 World Short Course Championships. He has been charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm. [cite news |first=Arjun |last=Ramachandran |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Swimmer charged |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/swimming/swimmer-charged/2008/03/31/1206850785482.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher= |date=2008-03-31 |accessdate=2008-03-31 ]
The following Olympic team was selected:
Men
Numbers in brackets indicate number of Olympic team selections.
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