2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
The US ladies’s 4×100 medley relay closed the 2024 Paris Olympics on a excessive notice, profitable gold in a brand new World Report. The win additionally allowed the US to prime the medal desk with 8 gold medals, only one greater than Australia’s 7.
Gretchen Walsh swam a 55.03 on the butterfly leg, tying her for the quickest butterfly break up of all-time. “We’re traditionally very sturdy on this relay, and we weren’t about to alter issues this now,” Walsh mentioned. “We did precisely what we got here right here to do, and we had a lot enjoyable the entire approach.”
Lilly King swam the breaststroke leg for the US relay and was on the relay that held the previous World Report as properly. She additionally swam on the relay on the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. “It’s been superior, this relay is the one we in all probability take essentially the most satisfaction in as a rustic,” King mentioned. “I do know from being on this relay for eight years, it’s undoubtedly one I take loads of satisfaction in. I’m simply tremendous happy with these women and what a strategy to cap off the week.”
Additionally profitable on the ultimate night time for the US was Bobby Finke who set a brand new World Report with a 14:30.67 within the males’s 1500 freestyle. That was about 9 seconds sooner than his profitable time from Tokyo. Finke additionally gained the US males their first and solely particular person gold of the meet.
“The world’s getting sooner, and I believe it’s a very good factor,” Finke mentioned. “It’s a very wholesome factor for the game. If one nation is all the time dominating, I can’t actually sit there and say the game is rising. As a lot because it sucks that we’re not dominating any extra, I believe it’s good for the game, and it reveals how far the game has come.”
Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri returned to the rostrum within the males’s 1500 freestyle after profitable the occasion in Rio however ending 4th in Tokyo. “I consider that I achieved loads within the final years and Olympics, 5 medals, it’s loads, and I’d by no means have been in a position to think about it in the beginning of my profession,” Paltrinieri mentioned. “However I handle to reinvent myself on a regular basis.”
Daniel Wiffen of Eire added to his medal tally, profitable bronze within the males’s 1500 free. Wiffen gained the 800 free earlier within the week, capturing Eire its first ever Olympic medal on the lads’s facet. “Completely happy however upset on the identical time,” Wiffen mentioned. “Completely happy as a result of I’m an Olympic champion. I’m a bronze medallist. However upset with the time and the race.”
Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden gained her 2nd gold medal of the week. Sjostrom gained the ladies’s 50 freestyle after already profitable the 100 free earlier this week. Sjostrom is in her fifth Olympics. “I consider that I achieved loads within the final years and Olympics, 5 medals, it’s loads, and I’d by no means have been in a position to think about it in the beginning of my profession,” Sjostrom mentioned. “However I handle to reinvent myself on a regular basis.”
Australia’s Meg Harris entered the meet because the #8 seed within the ladies’s 50 free however got here away with Olympic silver. “It was shock only for a second, I had no thought what was happening, however then I appeared throughout the opposite facet of the pool and noticed Shayna (Jack) smiling, and that’s when it hit me. It’s superb.”
The Chinese language males’s 4×100 medley relay ended the streak for the US as China gained gold within the occasion. Pan Zhanle had the quickest freestyle break up of all-time, clocking a forty five.92. “That is magic for me,” Pan mentioned. “We make a great crew and we obtained a great outcome.”
