Steph Rice, who lost her world record months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, knows exactly how Australia’s backstroke superstar Kaylee McKeown is feeling.
A trio of Australian swimming greats believe Kaylee McKeown losing her 100m backstroke world record to Regan Smith will be a blessing in disguise ahead of a blockbuster showdown at the Olympics later this month.
Australian Olympian Steph Rice had her 400m individual medley world record broken just before the Beijing 2008 Olympics and says it lit the fire inside her. “I’m feeling confident that she would have seen Regan take the world record and been like, that’s OK.” “For Kaylee, I think that it will just add some motivation seeing that world record go,” said Campbell, an Allianz ambassador. “I don’t think she was fully rested for our trials, so we didn’t get to see the best of her. She was still so close to her world records.
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