At delayed U.S. swimming trials, pent-up energy and a stacked roster could make for drama

In Palo Alto, Calif., Stanford pro group teammates Ledecky and Simone Manuel, who own a combined seven Olympic gold medals, wound up training in a friend-of-a-friend’s backyard pool. In Gainesville, Fla., Ryan Lochte and Caeleb Dressel, with eight Olympic golds between them, drove over an hour each way to the only facility they could find that would let them in. In Louisville, butterfly specialist and 2016 gold medalist Kelsi Dahlia hitched herself to a harness restraint that allowed her to swim in place in a 9-by-12-foot portable pool in her backyard.