How Cal’s Keaton Jones became a wild-card medal contender at Paris Olympics

If the NBC cameras had caught footage of Keaton Jones’ parents when the results lit up on the scoreboard at the USA Swimming Olympic Trials last month, it wouldn’t have been pretty.

“I have to tell you, nobody really thought Keaton was going to make the team,” said his mom, Elizabeth Jones. “Luckily, nobody knew who we were. There was a lot of ugly crying and screaming. We would’ve embarrassed him.”

Jones, a 19-year-old freshman at Cal, wasn’t exactly a favorite to represent the United States at the Summer Olympics in Paris...