The Tokyo bronze medallist could only finish seventh with Torri Huske leading an American one-two over Gretchen Walsh
If any athlete has the right to be self-indulgent, it is Australia’s most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon, but she remains the most humble champion, unwilling even to put herself in the same league as someone like Ian Thorpe. She did, however, allow herself one luxury as she emerged from the water after her last individual swim for Australia, in the 100m butterfly final at the Paris, sending the crowd at La Defense Arena into orbit, and the atmosphere was still electric.
Typically, she was not satisfied with her performance, swimming slower than she had hoped. But she has had a difficult preparation for her third Olympics, hindered by a chronic shoulder injury, and she is not the swimmer she was when she won four gold medals in Tokyo three years ago.
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