Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Haley Anderson wants to return to the Olympics after her silver medal performance at the 2012 London Games. After the first 2 km at the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in perfectly flat, warm waters in Miramar Lake in Fort Myers, Florida, she is swimming in the lead comfortably in command.

But long-time rivals Eva Fabian, Ashley Twichell, Emily Brunemann and Stephanie Peacock are right on her heels during the first loop. A pack of 5-6 are hanging onto Anderson’s strong pace, but the race will undoubtedly take all kinds of twists and turns over the last 8 km.

With play-by-play action brought by Dave Thomas with color commentary from Sam Kendricks, USA Swimming is live streaming the event at USASwimming.org, live starting at 8 am New York time.

But not surprisingly Tristin Baxter, Becca Mann and Christine Jennings are far back in the pack, still bidding their time to make a move towards the front.

Photo is from the 2014 USA Swimming National Championship event in Castaic Lake, California. Final race result is posted here.

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