Hayley Lewis and Kai Taylor are set to become the second mother-son duo to represent Australia in swimming at the Olympics.
Australian swimming great Hayley Lewis represented her country at three Olympics but said she had never experienced anything like the anguish of watching her son try to follow in her footsteps.
“We were just in shock,” Lewis, a two-time Olympic medallist and 200m freestyle world champion, told this masthead. “I don’t think I’ve been as emotional in the last month as I have been in my entire life. We knew he had the potential. They are just the second mother-son duo to represent Australia in swimming at an Olympics after Edna Davey and Graham Hamilton .According to Nine’s Olympic stats expert David Clark, Australian swimming has had a father and son Olympic combination , a couple of fathers and daughters as well as a mother and daughter duo .
Lewis knows better than anyone that Olympic trials are brutal because there is no second chance. Although Taylor’s 200m freestyle time of 1:46.26 was outside his best of 1:45.79, an Olympic berth was all he cared about.
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