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28th April 2022
11:50am BST

Another said: "After 17 years of competitive swimming (and working in TV), I can say NO Emma from Selling Sunset did not 'qualify' for the Olympics. You don’t qualify without going to Olympic Trials which she never did. There’s also no record of her competing, anywhere, it’s such a funny lie!"
A third wrote: "Idk why it bothered me so much when Emma on #SellingSunset said that 'she qualified for the Olympics'. I just knew she was lying. Why lie about swim results? They’re online!"
For anyone just as confused as us, the news of this got the attention of swimming news organisation SwimSwam and they managed to figure out the whole thing.
They wrote: "It’s unclear exactly what Hernan meant when she said that she swam a time that qualified for the Olympics. In order to qualify for the Olympics as an American, you must first qualify for Olympic Trials and then in order to qualify for the Olympic team, you must place within the top two in an individual event at Trials while also swimming under the FINA A standard.
"While Hernan probably did swim somewhere, we just can’t find any evidence - and certainly not the kind of evidence that would exist for a swimmer who had times that qualified for the Olympics by age 16."
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