"The last 15 meters I got so tired. All I could think in my head was this has been coming for four years, and this is the last stroke.
"I'm in shock," he said. "I can't even process that I made the team."
Hansen's coach Eddie Reese, also the US men's head coach, said he had no idea why Hansen faded so uncharacteristically.
"We don't have a clue," he said. "The US trials produce a level of emotion and nobody is safe."
The upset sent a collective shiver down the spines of other swimmers.
"I have been really shocked by what happened tonight," said veteran Amanda Beard, the 2004 women's 200m breaststroke gold medallist. "I thought for sure Brendan would win tonight."
Natalie Coughlin, who clinched her first spot with a world record win in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday, said it showed just how cut-throat the US trials, where only the top two finishers from fields jam-packed punch their Olympic tickets, can be.
"That's just the cruel nature of this week," Coughlin said.
Hansen said he would do all he could to make sure his Longhorn Aquatics club mates were ready for Beijing - and apparently for Kitajima.
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