Introducing The Team That Aims To Have Every Member Make A Rio Podium: The USA

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USA Swimming is rolling out videos in which members of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games team introduce themselves and take us on a whirlwind tour of their swim careers and provide a glimpse of their lives and loves.

Some fine insight into how significant inspirational moments early on the road can be. For Maya DiRado, who memorised every time from the Sydney 200 Olympics, the moment she met Misty Hyman some years on and got to keep a cap belonging to the Olympic 200m butterfly champion of 2000 sparked tears of joy .

Up front in the queue of effervescent is Allison Schmitt, the 200m freestyle champion of London 2012 heading back to the Games for relay action four years on in Rio. Then there’s Conor Dwyer, the 200 and 400m free podium hope; Caeleb Dressel, a World junior star now stepping up to his Olympic debut in the 100m freestyle and …

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