The seven Georgia swimmers who made the U.S. team for the 2017 Fdration Internationale de Natation (FINA) World Championships are in for a busy couple of weeks that will have them all over the globe. In 22 days, those Bulldogs will travel an estimated 5,841 miles. <\/p>\n
Those seven Bulldogs qualified for the U.S. team bound for FINA world championships thanks to their efforts at the Phillips 66 national championships last week in Indianapolis that ended on July 1. <\/p>\n
It wont be long before the Bulldogs hit the road again. On July 11, every swimmer who is set to represent the U.S. for the FINA world championships will pack their bags and fly to Opatija, Croatia, for a training camp. <\/p>\n
This training camp is similar to the ones that were held last year before the Olympics. The U.S. team held camps in San Antonio and Atlanta before heading to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics last summer. <\/p>\n
Olympic gold medalist and one of the seven Bulldogs headed to Budapest this summer, Olivia Smoliga, is prepared to get to the coast early next week. <\/p>\n
We have a training trip like we had the two training trips before the [Olympic] games in San Antonio and Atlanta, Smoliga said. This one is in Croatia, which is tight because youll be on the coast and its beautiful. Definitely puts your mind at ease before the big meet. <\/p>\n
From Croatia, the Georgia swimmers and the rest of the U.S. team will head to Budapest, Hungary, where the FINA world championships will begin on July 23. <\/p>\n
Traveling this frequently isnt slowing down one of the Georgia swimmers who will be representing the U.S. in Budapest though. <\/p>\n
No, Im excited is what I am, Ive been working all summer to make the trip, former Georgia swimmer Nic Fink said. Im ready. <\/p>\n
Since there is little time between the training camp and the FINA world championships, the swimmers will not be swimming a large amount of yards or training extremely hard in the weeks to come. <\/p>\n
Instead, theyll be getting in the pool to focus on other things and taking in all the places theyll be traveling to in the upcoming weeks. <\/p>\n
Well pretty much all of the work has already been done all year, Fink said. You dont really try to get better, you just try to like fine tune things that maybe werent great. You try to stay in shape, obviously, and just fine tune the little things that maybe went wrong or try to get a little better at certain things. <\/p>\n
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