Announcing SwimSwam’s 2024 Olympic Games Fantasy Draft | SwimSwam

By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam

As is tradition at this point, the big meet of the summer is upon us and your favorite SwimSwam GMs are back in their drafting chairs. SwimSwam is proud to present the 2024 Olympic Games Fantasy Draft.

In this SwimSwam fantasy draft, five GMs gather to draft a team of swimmers competing in Paris. Each GM acquires a team of eight swimmers to create a team that will score the most points according to the scoring system below.

Scoring System for the 2022 SwimSwam Fantasy Draft

• Individual Gold Medal: 6 points
• Individual Silver Medal: 5 points
• Individual Bronze Medal: 4 points
• Relay Gold Medal, Swam in Finals: 4 points
• Relay Silver Medal, Swam in Finals: 3 points
• Relay Bronze Medal, Swam in Finals: 2 points
• Any relay medal, Only Swam in Prelims: 1 point
• Made an Individual Final, Didn’t Medal: 1 point
• World Record Bonus: 3 points
• DQ: -2 points

The 2024 Olympic Fantasy Draft took place on Wednesday, July 10, (notably before preliminary entries were released). Each of the five GMs had to select one swimmer from North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, and one from either South America, Central America, or Africa. GMs also had three wild card spots, which could be filled in with swimmers from any nation. Yanyan Li had the first pick, followed by David Clossy, Loretta Race, Coleman Hodges, and then Barry Revzin.

Check out the live draft here:

• 0:00 Fantasy Draft Introduction
• 2:30 Round 1
• 5:05 Round 2
• 7:43 Round 3
• 11:15 Round 4
• 14:57 Round 5
• 18:42 Round 6
• 23:23 Round 7
• 27:50 Round 8
• 32:12 Team Names and Final Rosters

Teams have been finalized and you can see which eight swimmers each GM will be relying on for points during the 2024 Olympic Games:

	YanYan	David	Loretta	Coleman	Barry
	The District Tap Lives On	Finke’s Lucky Duckys	Swim Shady	Coleman’s Cowbell Carpool	The Chicago Current
NA	Caeleb Dressel	Summer McIntosh	Bobby Finke	Kate Douglass	Regan Smith
SA/AFR	Guilherme Costa	Jordan crooks	Pieter Coetze	Tatjana Schoenmaker	Gui Caribe
EUR	Kristof Milak	Thomas Ceccon	Duncan Scott	Matt Richards	Leon Marchand
ASIA	Li Bingjie	Qin Haiyang	Pan Zhanle	Zhang Yufei	Siobhan Haughey
OCEAN	Mollie O’Callaghan	Sam Short	Kaylee McKeown	Ariarne Titmus	Kyle Chalmers
WILD CARD	Ryan Murphy	Katie Ledecky	Shayna Jack	Carson Foster	Gretchen Walsh
WILD CARD	Maxine grousset	Josh Liendo	Hwang Sunwoo	Hunter Armstrong	Chris Guiliano
WILD CARD	Jack Alexy	David Povovici	Lukas martens	Simone Manuel	Torri Huske

Let us know in the comments RESPECTFULLY who you think has the best team and who made a questionable pick (I’ll call myself out now, I think should have used my last pick for Meg Harris over Simone Manuel. The pressure got to me).

Additionally, check back in during the swimming portion of the 2024 Olympic Games to keep track of the fantasy draft scores as well as all of SwimSwam’s coverage of the biggest meet of the year.

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