Moments before breaking her 400m freestyle world record last year, Ariarne Titmus burst into tears. She still doesn’t know why.
Ariarne Titmus still has no idea why she burst into tears moments before her epic 400m freestyle victory at last year’s world swimming championships in Japan.
He told Titmus that he’d overheard Canadian officials claiming McIntosh was a near certainty for gold and would probably lower the world record again.Advertisement “I remember turning at the 200-metre mark thinking, ‘Well they’re behind, so they’re going to bring the legs in. They’re coming for me.’ On the sixth lap I was like, ‘Where are they? What’s going on?’Titmus touched the wall in three minutes, 55.38 seconds. It was a time 0.7s quicker than McIntosh’s world record and three seconds clear of Ledecky in second place.
“He could see that I was still stuck in my personal life. I was not as focused as I should have been on swimming. I felt like when I went to trials and I didn’t swim exactly the way I wanted to it was like that kick up the bum I needed.” Although she managed to win gold in the 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley at the world championships, McIntosh will never forget the loss to Titmus that evening in Fukuoka. She says she is trying to move past it but concedes it did not go to plan.
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