Road to Rio

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It's worked for us for years with trial in Feb. Actually be harder for the Americans having their trials then holding that for 6 weeks. We get the chance to reload. Our results for our population show that. Peaking 6 months apart from Trials to championships isn't too hard.

That would be my thinking too...but maybe there's been a shift in swimming and we need to have a look at whether what's worked in the past is still the best way to approach things.
We'd have to discount the illness factor to start with (which I suspect is there) and then compare the trial times to the Olympic times.
I'd be curious to see how many have swum faster at any stage during the Games.