Trained in the same pool under the same coach, the Australian teammates will be rivals when they meet in the Olympics’ ultimate speed-endurance event
Australian teammates Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus will go head-to-head in the women’s 200m freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics tonight.Australian teammates Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus will go head-to-head in the women’s 200m freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics tonight.
It won’t be anything new for Boxall – he manages the two swimmers daily in his training pool at St Peter’s Lutheran College, mostly by keeping them separate. Titmus trains with the middle distance group, while O’Callaghan works with the sprinters.Titmus will go into the 200m final as the defending champion and world record-holder, having taken that mark from O’Callaghan at the Australian Olympic trials in June. She approaches the 200m with the strength of her 400m-800m training.
Both women looked composed as they gave a preview of tonight’s showdown in last night’s semi-finals. At the finish they were separated by just .06sec as they took the top two qualifying spots for the medal race.Titmus, 23, led for most of their semi-final and touched first to stop the clock in 1:54.64. O’Callaghan, 20, was in fourth for most of the race, but a brilliant underwater turn into the last lap brought her right into the race and demonstrated why she is so dangerous.
Titmus can relax knowing her place in history is secure. With three individual Olympic gold medals she’s already in the pantheon with Fraser, Murray Rose, Shane Gould and Ian Thorpe. If she becomes the first to complete a double-double, she will have a unique place in Australian sporting history.
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