As a recap of the race, which you can watch here1, the winner of the 100m butterfly in the 2004 Olympic trials, Rachel Komisarz, jumped out to an early lead out of the start. The favorite, Christine Magnuson, recent graduate of Tennessee, caught up with her and made it a two person race for most of the race. Coming out of the turn from the 50, Elaine Breeden (pictured) was fighting for fouth place. As the swimmers made it to the 75 meter mark, the field was tightening up, and as they went under the flags, it looked like Rachel and Christine were going to punch their tickets to Beijing. However, as the swimmers came into the wall, Elaine pulled enough to reach the wall 0.16 seconds ahead of Komisarz to place second behind Magnuson.Congratulations to Elaine (and Christine) for making their first Olympics with this event, and we'll be looking forward to seeing her in China. As a note, we won't be in China during the 100m butterfly (the finals which will be shown here in the US on NBC during prime time on Sunday, August 10). Anyway, I'll keep you posted on more happenings at trials throughout the rest of the week.
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