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Four time Olympic Silver Medalist Kara Lynn Joyce discusses Lia Neal and Amanda Weir in USASwimming.com’s Silver Linings.
If you're a regular human, the odds of becoming one of Team USA's 554 Olympic athletes are slim to none. The odds of returning for another Olympics are slimmer. And returning to defend a medal in the same event is rarer still. That's part of what makes Lia Neal such a BFD.
4,587 Likes, 109 Comments - Simone Manuel (@swimone13) on Instagram: "Two Lit Gurls Episode 1: Weight room chronicles. #workoutwednesday @lia_neal Special guest..."
Lia: Rio Olympics Is Experience of a Lifetime
Lia Neal: Proud of Simone Manuel for Making History
lympian Ariana Kukors chats with 2016 Rio Olympians Lia Neal and Amanda Weir about their Olympic experience so far and watching their teammates compete.
Team USA gets silver in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay. Lia gets a medal as part of the preliminary US team.
USA Final Splits:
Manuel: 53.36
Weitzeil: 52.56
Vollmer: 53.18
Ledecky: 52.79
3:31.89
Lia helps Team USA place 2nd behind Australia in preliminaries. Finals will be tonight.
US Morning TIme: 3:33.59
Split times:
WEIR Amanda: 53.60
NEAL Lia: 53.63
SCHMITT Allison: 53.72
LEDECKY Kathleen: 52.64
USA Swim Team hits the road for some carpool karaoke in Atlanta... Which way to Rio?
Meet Lia Neal, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Lia will compete in the 400m freestyle relay.
Team USA welcomes Lia Neal to the 2016 Olympics - @USASwimming
Lia is welcomed by cheering Stanford teammates. - @Stanford_W_Swim
Lia and Stanford teammates congratulates Simone Manuel on 100 Freestyle Olympic placement - @NBCOlympics
VIDEO: Women’s 100m Freestyle at the US Olympic Swimming Trials - NBC Sports
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Lia Neal shares her Olympic experience after winning a Bronze medal. - Verizon
I went into the Olympic Trials knowing that the top six finishers in the 100 and 200 freestyles make the team. All I had wanted was to slip into that sixth place spot and make the team. - SwimJim
- Jessica Hardy