Showman Hall out with a bang

OMAHA, Nebraska: Swimming's flamboyant showman Gary Hall Jr left the stage exactly how you would expect him to on Saturday, shot down with all guns blazing in his audacious bid to the make the US Olympic team.

Wearing a cape and using his fingers as pistols, Hall stepped on the pool deck at the US Olympic trials for the 50m freestyle final to a thunderous ovation.

A minute later, Hall's bid to make his fourth Olympic team and an opportunity to become the first swimmer to win the same event at three different Games was over, ended with a fourth-place finish.