The Stanford swimmer and part-time artist stormed back to upset her U.S. teammate and world record holder Gretchen Walsh by 0.04 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday.
Team USA’s part-time painter and sketch artist authored her Olympic Games masterpiece Sunday night, upsetting American teammate Gretchen Walsh to win the 100-meter butterfly gold medal by four-one-hundredths of a second. She’s smart and artsy, a reader and a thinker and a hard driver who now has splashed her boldest work on an aquatic canvas.
Huske said before the trip to Paris that she was hoping to sketch some of the Old World architecture she saw here.something she took lessons at as a child and now indulges in whenever she has time. She’s even taken to decorating sneakers, and was commissioned by fellow U.S. swimmer Beata Nelson to design a pair of hightop for Nelson’s wedding.
It’s not that Huske wasn’t capable of winning—it was more a case of Walsh looking incapable of being beaten. Last month at Olympic trials, Walsh obliterated the world record in the 100 fly. Then SaturdayToday, Walsh has the records, but Huske has the gold.Huske made a classy gesture to her American teammate at the medal ceremony,with her while the “Star Spangled Banner” played.
And don’t think the start doesn’t matter. Reaction time Sunday was .63 for Huske, second-fastest in the race. Reaction time for Walsh was .75, slowest in the race. Given the final margin of .04, that loomed large. In the final, Huske was right where she needed to be at the turn, sitting in third but close to Walsh’s pace. In the final meters she put a poetic reversal on her Tokyo fate, surging where she came up short three years ago.
After Tokyo, Huske matriculated to Stanford, a place she has loved, but at a time of great turnover among Olympic swimmers. Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel left after Tokyo, and at the end of 2021–22 school year Regan Smith departed for Arizona State. A year later, Claire Curzan transferred to Virginia.“She made the decision to stay, in spite of some challenges,” Meehan said. “I think that really strengthened our bond, and our trust in each other.
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