Olympics: Kaylee McKeown has produced a stunning swim to defend her Olympic 100m backstroke title and Australia has missed out on a women's rugby sevens medal in heartbreaking fashion.
Four days of Olympic swimming have taken place in Paris so far – almost halfway through the nine days of action in the pool.Firstly, the Australians have enjoyed a stunning start. Four gold medals , two more than the USA who have been left to count a pile of silver and bronze .
“They’re not happy with the depth of the pool, they’re saying there’s too many cameras in the pool it’s causing waves for the swimmers. “There are a number of ways to calculate it,” Bowman said. “Total number, USA. Gold medals, pick which one you like. Which one do you like?”But back to the pool, because a grand total of zero world records have been broken in the first four days.
The pool is clearly shallower, at 2.15 or 2.17 metres deep. When the plans for the temporary pool inside a rugby stadium – which also recently played host to a Taylor Swift concert – were approved in 2019, it met the 2m minimum benchmark. The World Aquatics in 2023 upgraded their minimum standard to 2.5m, and the last four Olympic pools were all 3m deep.
American commentator Rowdy Gaines said on NBC: “Breaststroke is what’s caused a lot of trouble. These waves in this shallow pool … is what’s caused so many issues for so many swimmers.”“It’s a bit like swimming in the sea but not to that extent. There’s a lot of waves when coming out of the turn,” he said.
“And if you go back and watch videos from other Olympics, you can see the surface of the water is like glass before every final.” One Olympic coach was anonymously quoted by Sports Illustrated saying: “I don’t think anyone has won a final or semifinal at 200 meters or less leading the race start to finish.The coach is right, too. Plenty of Aussies have pulled off stunning last-lap comebacks to overhaul the leader. In every final so far, no winner has been in the lead after the final turn. Most have been in third or fourth.
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