2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Veteran sprinter Cameron McEvoy spoke to the media on Wednesday from the Aussie coaching camp in Chartres, France, the ultimate stage earlier than the squad goes to Paris for the Olympic Video games.
McEvoy is headed to his fourth Olympics as the favourite to assert gold within the males’s 50 freestyle, proudly owning the highest seed by almost two-tenths of a second and coming off successful the 2023 World Championship title in dominant style.
The 30-year-old touched on numerous subjects in his 13-minute availability, together with how his coaching goes within the lead-up to the Video games, the affect having defending champion Caeleb Dressel within the subject means to the 50 free, the Australian rivalry with the USA, and the chance he has to compete at one other Olympics after some “distinctive experiences.”
McEvoy famous that he’s “swimming as quick as I ever have” in coaching, detailing a selected taper program he’s utilizing that he first tried previous to the 2023 World Championships, the place he dropped a time of 21.06—the quickest since Dressel went 21.04 on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials.
McEvoy was in a position to keep again in Australia longer than the remainder of the Olympic workforce in an effort to comply with his particular taper program, for which he expressed immense gratitude to the workforce workers.
“The flexibleness that Rohan (Taylor) and the swim workforce gave me to remain again in Australia for just a little bit longer—for me, that two, two and a half, three-week interval was a very powerful interval of my complete prep,” McEvoy mentioned.
“It’s form of the glue that places the remainder of the 11 months previous to that collectively. And the outcomes that I used to be in a position to placed on the board in coaching in that interval means that it was the proper transfer.”
McEvoy mentioned he arrived per week earlier than the workforce went from Canet to Chartres, which was on July 13.
McEvoy repeatedly used the phrase “privilege” when discussing his alternative to race at a fourth Olympics, giving him the prospect to “rewrite my relationship with the Olympics.”
McEvoy has three Olympic bronze medals to his title, all from relays, however is maybe finest remembered on the Video games for lacking the lads’s 100 free podium in Rio after he swam the quickest textile time in historical past (47.04) on the Olympic Trials.
“I didn’t assume I might be on the workforce once more at an Olympics, not to mention with the prospect to doubtlessly get my hand on the wall first or to get a medal,” he mentioned.
“It’s one thing that I can’t take without any consideration, but in addition one thing the place I undoubtedly must take a step again and simply admire the chance to narrate to the Olympic expertise on a brand new stage, in a unique context, and to stroll away actually happy with every little thing I’ve completed.”
Watch his full media availability beneath:
Courtesy of Swimming Australia
