{"id":1962488,"date":"2023-07-01T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails-to-qualify-for-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T23:35:12","slug":"swimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails-to-qualify-for-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails-to-qualify-for-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressel, Olympic champ in swimming, misses world championships qualification."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails-to-qualify-for-world-championships%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel failed to qualify for this month\u2019s World Aquatics Championships in Japan after more disappointing results at the U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>In his final chance to make the U.S. team, Dressel finished tied for 22nd in the preliminaries of the 50-metre freestyle, 1.07 seconds behind the leader. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>That capped a week that saw him finish third in the 50-metre butterfly, tied for fifth in the 100-metre butterfly and 19th in the 100-metre freestyle, all short of what was needed to make the worlds, which run from July 14-30 in Fukuoka. <\/p>\n<p>Dressel\u2019s struggles were not wholly unexpected as the 26-year-old has not competed in a major meet since abruptly pulling out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bikinis-beach-volleyball-stars-boycott-qatar-event-because-of-no-bikini-policy\/\" title=\"No Bikinis: Beach Volleyball Stars Boycott Qatar Event Because Of No-Bikini Policy\">world championships<\/a> in Budapest last summer citing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails-to-qualify-for-world-championships\/\" title=\"Dressel, Olympic champ in swimming, misses world championships qualification.\">unspecified health issue<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very happy where he\u2019s at now,\u201d University of Florida head coach Anthony Nesty was quoted as saying by SwimSwam on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have a starting point and we can go from there. Obviously he wanted to do better, but for us, it\u2019s just posting times that could improve upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve seen him happy swimming in a long time, and a happy athlete is a fast athlete. Obviously, he\u2019s not fast yet, but under the circumstances where he\u2019s at, he did some good times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nesty said Dressel is capable of getting off to excellent starts but struggles to close races. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe lacks power,\u201d Nesty said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s mentally where he needs to be, physically, not yet. But his strokes are good. He\u2019s felt good in all his strokes\u2026 now we just need to get a full year of training and weights in and he\u2019ll be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team USA will hope Dressel can regain the form that saw him win five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-toyota-super-bowl-ads-strong-pro-life-message\/\" title=\"WATCH: Toyota Super Bowl Ad\u2019s Strong Pro-Life Message\">gold medals<\/a> at the Tokyo Olympics before the Paris Games next summer. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/swimming-olympic-champion-dressel-fails\/attachment\/file-photo-fina-world-championships-4\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Heading into 2024, voters concerned about the economy under Biden<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-touts-his-bidenomics-are-the-future-ahead-of-2024\/\" title=\"Biden champions 'Bidenomics' as the future before 2024.\">remove objectionable books<\/a> from public library<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Actor Jim Caviezel discusses his role in &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>President Trump to celebrate Independence Day in Pickens, South Carolina<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Cboe refiles application to launch exchange<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Google hires former Brazilian President to lobby for internet regulation<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Apple&#8217;s stock market value exceeds $3 trillion for the first time<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h2>Goldman Sachs considers ending partnership with Apple<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for the World Aquatics Championships in Japan were dashed after underwhelming performances at the U.S. National Championships. In his last opportunity to secure a spot on the U.S. team, Dressel finished tied for 22nd in the 50-meter freestyle preliminaries, falling short by 1.07 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1962489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}