{"id":413896,"date":"2024-07-26T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=413896"},"modified":"2024-07-26T01:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T01:06:24","slug":"team-usa-swimmings-jersey-boys-ready-to-take-on-the-world-at-2024-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=413896","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Swimming&#039;s &#039;Jersey Boys&#039; ready to take on the world at 2024 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In June, just before his 100-meter freestyle final at USA Swimming&#8217;s Olympic Trials,\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/07\/03\/2024-paris-olympics-delbarton-jack-alexy-mendham-usa-swimmer\/74239327007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/07\/03\/2024-paris-olympics-delbarton-jack-alexy-mendham-usa-swimmer\/74239327007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">Jack Alexy<\/a>\u00a0had a few minutes to be a fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From the pool deck in Indianapolis, the Mendham native watched\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/matthew-fallon\/22774\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/matthew-fallon\/22774\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\">Matt Fallon<\/a>, his longtime Somerset Hills YMCA teammate, win the 200-meter breaststroke &#8220;by literally two body lengths&#8221; to qualify for Team USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alexy&#8217;s thought: &#8220;I can&#8217;t mess this up now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He didn&#8217;t. The Delbarton alum finished first in his prelim, with the world&#8217;s second-fastest 100-meter freestyle time this season, securing his spot at the 2024 Olympics that open Friday in Paris. He&#8217;s part of a trio of New Jersey swimmers \u2212 along with Warren native Fallon and\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/06\/16\/swimmer-nic-fink-morristown-nj-qualifies-for-2024-paris-olympics-with-us-trials-win-pingry-school\/74120881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/06\/16\/swimmer-nic-fink-morristown-nj-qualifies-for-2024-paris-olympics-with-us-trials-win-pingry-school\/74120881007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">Nic Fink of Morristown<\/a>\u00a0\u2212 who will try to win gold for the U.S. and bring glory to the Garden State.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/07\/25\/2024-paris-olympics-usa-swimming-jersey-boys-jack-alexy-nic-fink-matt-fallon\/74278036007\/\">Read the full story at USA TODAY Network&#8217;s Daily Record<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101526114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101526114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101526114\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/USATSI_23642332-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-101526114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jun 15, 2024; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Nic Fink competes in the 100 meter breaststroke Saturday, June 15, 2024, during prelims for the Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars-USA Today Network)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A trio of New Jersey natives are heading to Paris for the Summer Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413907,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413896\/revisions\/413907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}