Is the Australian swimming team heading to Paris as good as is being advertised? Here’s a look at the early numbers.
The morning after Australia’s swimmers officially booked their ticket to the Paris Olympics, the country’s stars turned their attention to an NFL stadium in Indianapolis, some 15,000 kilometres away.
We’ll know a lot more by the end of the week. After six nights of strong performances at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, the USA’s swimming trials began with a bang on Sunday morning, Australian time. Gretchen Walsh is a superstar in the US college system but almost unrecognisable in Australia. On Sunday, she broke the women’s 100m butterfly world record by 0.3 seconds … in a semi-final.Minutes later, Ariarne Titmus’ long-time rival and the undisputed greatest female swimmer of all time, Katie Ledecky, clocked 3:58.35 to win the women’s 400m freestyle final. The time was almost three seconds slower than what Titmus managed in Brisbane on Monday night.
As it stands, there are six individual events on the Paris swimming program where Australia has the No.1 ranked swimmer, based on times this year . There are also major gold medal chances in relays, notably in the women’s 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle. Of course, a lot can change, but here’s an early form guide.Everything is going perfectly for Titmus, who has put herself in position to make it back-to-back gold medals in both the 200m and 400m freestyle.
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