Lochte Won't Compete in 100-Meter Backstroke at Olympics OMAHA - Ryan Lochte finished third in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2008 United States Olympic trials, missing a berth on the Beijing-bound team by one place. After posting the second-fastest time in the preliminaries of the event on Tuesday, Lochte scratched to conserve his energy. Lochte was clocked in 53.92, behind Matt Grevers" 52.94. Grevers won the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing with a time of 53.11. If Lochte had remained in the event, he would have had to race in the semifinals of the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke on Tuesday night. But the real sticking point was the schedule on Wednesday, where the finals of the two events are separated only by the women's 100 backstroke final. "He really wants to swim the 100," Lochte's coach, Gregg Troy, said. We're kind of happy with this morning. But looking at the program as it goes through the weeks and looking at the Olympics where he'll have even less time, we kind of felt like this isn't about how many events we can swim but how many events we can swim really well.