Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan win gold and silver medals in 200m classic while Emma Mckeon is on cusp of a record 10th and 11th Games title
Titmus was expecting it. So she’d turned her head to the other side when breathing just so she could watch O’Callaghan. “I was breathing the other way on the third lap,” Titmus said. “I thought that was when I could put my foot down and make a move. Then I saw her on the turn. And thought ‘she’s there’.”
O’Callaghan began swimming at the age of four and entered her first competition three years later. As the youngest member of the Tokyo Olympics squad, the Queensland prodigy produced an incredible swim in the heats of the 4x100 freestyle relay in Tokyo to secure a gold medal as part of the Australian team. In June, with Titmus at home, she became the 100m freestyle champion at theTitmus and O’Callaghan are both coached by Dean Boxall.
Two more golds - the 100m butterfly and women’s 4x100m freestyle relay - are up for grabs on Saturday. Victory there would push McKeon level and then past champions Ian Thorpe, Susie O’Neill and Leisel Jones, who are clinging to the Australian record of 10 Commonwealth Games titles. “Here it’s just a stepping stone and I’m not looking at medal tallies,” McKeon insisted. “Incredible swimmers have done that in the past and they’re the ones that have inspired all of us. I’m not setting out to break any of that, just do my best and see what I’m capable of.”
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