2021 OLYMPIC PREDICTIONS
THE WAIT WILL
SOON BE OVER
THE WORLD CAN FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC-DELAYED OLYMPICS OF 2020 ARE NOW LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY, SET TO BEGIN WITH THE OPENING CEREMONIES ON FRIDAY, JULY 23—2021—IN TOKYO. AND NOW IT’S TIME TO SEE WHO MIGHT WIN MEDALS IN THE 35 SWIMMING EVENTS— THREE MORE THAN IN 2016, WITH THE DEBUT OF THE WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE, MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE AND THE MIXED 4X100 MEDLEY RELAY. HERE IS SWIMMING WORLD’S EVENT-BY-EVENT ANALYSIS: BY DAN D’ADDONA, MATTHEW DE GEORGE, JOHN LOHN, DAVID RIEDER AND ANDY ROSS Editor’s Note: Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time (New York) and 16 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time (Los Angeles). Olympic finals and semifinals will be swum at Tokyo in the morning, with prelims swum the previous evening. So, for a finals session beginning at 10:30 a.m. in Japan on Sunday, July 25, that would be 9:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. PDT) on Saturday, July 24. BIWEEKLY
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