The trials are complete, the team is set, and next comes Paris. A showdown with the Australians looms as a major storyline at the Games.
INDIANAPOLIS — In August, a video clip of a television interview featuring Australian sprint legend Cate Campbell started making the rounds of the American elite swimming community. The 2023 world swimming championships had just ended in Fukuoka, Japan, where the Aussies notched more gold medals than Team USA at a major meet for the first time in 22 years, and Campbell, trash-talking like a beefing rap star, was still riding that competitive high.,” she said of Team USA.
Manuel, who already had made this year’s team as a relay swimmer, said Sunday night that she had been feeling a lack of confidence after Saturday night’s mediocre showing in the semifinals, but she went back and watched old race videos of herself when she was at her towering peak. “I really wanted to channel that Simone,” she said, “because I know I’m a winner.”
“I just had to fight with everything I had to get there,” Johnston said. “I’m glad I saved my meet. … I told my dad: ‘I’m in a football stadium. I’m down 0-2, and I’m going to throw a Hail Mary.’” who could swim in as many as six events in Paris, appears poised to be one of the breakout American stars of the Games.The Americans like to say their Olympic trials are a tougher, more mentally grueling meet than even the Summer Games themselves.
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