Britain has announced an Olympic team of 35 swimmers, as listed below (medley relays and other relay sports to be chosen from the selected at the Games) at the end of an extraordinary seven days of trials in Sheffield that witnessed one world, two European, eight Commonwealth and 24 British records broken.
The GBR team:
There was no place for the first four home in the 4x100m freestyle, though Michael Scott, performance director, will assess the situation over the coming week and may add names to the team under what he called discretionary powers. Having read the policy I can see no discretionary power granted to anyone that could allow the addition of the 4x100m quartet but there is an understandable appetite to have the likes of teenager Adam Brown and Commonwealth champion Simon Burnett on the team. Medical sources suggest that there may have been a physical reason why Burnett was off the boil. That is the one loophole in the policy that would allow selectors to make additions without overtly breaking the policy.
The final morning of finals here in Sheffield saw Hannah Miley, coached by father Patrick in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, back up her European 400m medley record from heats (4:33.24) with a 4:37.41 victory in a close battle with Kerri-Anne Payne, who clocked another best time, of 4:38.40. Payne, coached by Sean Kelly in Stockport, is also in line to race the 10km open water event should she go to trials in Seville in May and emerge successful.
In the 200m freestyle, five women battled for places the 4x200m relay. As in heats, Rebecca Adlington, coached by Bill Furniss at Nova Centurion in Nottingham, overhauled Commonwealth champion Caitlin McClatchey in the closing 25 metres to claim victory in 1:57.94 (heats: 1:56.66), to 1:58.22, with Jo Jackson and Mel Marshall following through in 1:58.77 and 1:58.86. Fran Halsall put in a 2min effort but clearly has much more to give come the moment.
Adlington took the 200m, 400m and 800m titles at these championships and trials and said: 'I am so glad it's over. I need a rest. It just gets harder and harder as the week goes on.' Not that you would have noticed that from a 1:56.66 that wiped four seconds off her best in the 200m heats.
Michael Rock, of Stockport, sealed his place on the team for the 200m butterfly, in 1:56.92, and 19-year-old Richard Charlesworth clocked 15:10.99 to take up the second berth in the 1,500m alongside pre-selected Olympic and world bronze medallist David Davies.
At the end of a terrific week for Britain, the Olympic team was paraded through the pool to the tune of Chariots of Fire and David Bowie's Heroes. Michael Scott, the new Australian at the helm of performance in Britain, said: 'There's a fantastic foundation for the future. We need to encourage and congratulate people but we need to put it in context. What we're seeing here today is Bill Sweetenham's work and that of the coaches. But we have to look at what the world is doing. There is much more work to be done.'
The team will now head over to Manchester for the first global swimming championships to be held in Britain since the 1948 Olympic Games. The world short-course championships start on Wednesday.