Team USA was trounced on the medal table by Australia at the World Aquatics Championships, lending more importance to its performance at next summer's Paris Olympics.
The next major international swim meet will occur at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and based on what happened over eight days in Japan, the team to beat will be Australia. The Dolphins, as they call themselves, topped the medal standings with 13 golds, nearly doubling the Americans’ total of seven, and marking the first World Championships since 2001 in which Team USA did not take home the most golds — a sobering truth as the countdown to Paris begins in earnest.
Veteran breaststroker Lilly King — who powered Team USA to victory Sunday in the women’s medley relay by outsplitting her Australian counterpart, Australian Abbey Harkin, by more than two full seconds — was full of her typical bravado in describing the message the Americans were sending via the relay wins on the meet’s final day.“Hey, we’re still here. Don’t count us out,” King said. “We’re here, we’re tough, and we’re ready to race next year.
A whopping 10 world records were set at these World Championships, with Australians accounting for five of them, and with one swimmer, freestyler Mollie O’Callaghan, having a hand in four. None of the new standards were set by Americans.
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