By Braden Keith on SwimSwam Russian swimmer Evgenii Somov has been granted neutral status to swim at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, making him likely to be the only Russian swimmer to compete at the quadrennial event. Somov is one of only two Russian swimmers to have been given the special status by World Aquatics allowing him to compete amid a broader Olympic ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes. The other, Yulia Efimova, came up short of Olympic qualifying times last week at the Bahamas National Championships. Somov’s status became relevant in May when he blasted a new Russian Record of 58.72 at the Atlanta Classic to hit the Olympic Qualification Time (OQT, aka “A cut”). Prior to that sw
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