Indianapolis is a basketball town, a football town, and an open-wheel racing town. This summer, for the first time since 2000, it will also be a swimming town.
Indiana’s state capital was the host of the United States Olympic team swimming trials four times between 1988 and 2000. It has hosted the event, which determines who’ll get to swim in the Olympics and who’ll merely have to rest on their All-American laurels, more than any other city in the nation. So with the Games returning to Paris for the first time since 1924, it only made sense for the races to return to the city where the mens’ trials took place 100 years ago as well.
This time, it won’t take place at the Broad Ripple Pool:
Check out our new pool. 💧 pic.twitter.com/2oT7245Cqr
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) June 5, 2024
Jonathan Taylor’s turf has been transformed into America’s largest natatorium. A raised stage and enough structural reinforcement to support the pool, and it looks even wilder when you add some people for scale:
There’s a POOL in here pic.twitter.com/VJociMouWW
— Derek Schultz (@Schultz975) June 5, 2024
The U.S. Olympic team trials begin June 15 and run through June 23. The 2024 Summer Olympics begin July 26.
