2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
By the primary seven days of swimming on the Paris Olympics, coach Bob Bowman‘s worldwide swimmers have mixed for extra gold medals (5) than all of Staff USA (4).
French star Leon Marchand gained his fourth Olympic title of the meet on Friday, breaking his fourth Olympic file within the males’s 200 IM at 1:54.06 — only a blink off Ryan Lochte‘s world file (1:54.00). The 22-year-old Marchand had already picked up wins within the 400 IM (4:02.95), 200 butterfly (1:51.21), and 200 breast (2:05.85).
Marchand’s former Arizona State teammate, Hubert Kos, additionally captured a person Olympic crown within the males’s 200 backstroke with a successful time of 1:54.26. The 21-year-old Hungarian transferred to Texas together with Marchand, following Bowman to Austin after they gained the Solar Devils’ first-ever NCAA swim title in late March.
In the meantime, the Individuals have gained simply 4 gold medals up to now courtesy of the lads’s 4×100 freestyle relay (Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong, and Caeleb Dressel), Torri Huske within the ladies’s 100 butterfly (55.59), Katie Ledecky within the ladies’s 1500 free (15:30.02), and Kate Douglass within the ladies’s 200 breaststroke (2:19.24).
The 59-year-old Bowman is teaching with the French this summer season partially as a result of they don’t care if he additionally coaches swimmers from different international locations — not like Staff USA.
“It simply makes it so significantly better for everybody for me to teach with the French, as a result of the French haven’t any stipulations about me teaching different nationalities and it’s a bit of totally different with the USA group, which I definitely respect,” Bowman mentioned finally weekend’s Professional Swim Sequence cease in San Antonio. “So it simply is smart for everyone as a result of then I can coach everyone I’m teaching now.”
There are solely seven gold medal alternatives remaining within the pool. Saturday may very well be an enormous day for the Individuals: Ledecky is anticipated to convey dwelling her fourth consecutive Olympic title within the 800 free, the U.S. blended 4×100 medley relay are in all probability the favorites, and Douglass has a shot within the 200 IM in opposition to Canadian star Summer season McIntosh.
The final time the U.S. completed with a gold medal rely within the single digits was again on the Seoul 1988 Olympics, when it gained eight. If the Individuals can’t hit that mark this 12 months, it will symbolize their lowest gold medal whole because the Melbourne 1956 Olympics (two).
The U.S. gained 11 golds at Tokyo 2021, 16 at Rio 2016, 16 at London 2012, 12 at Beijing 2008, 12 at Athens 2004, 14 at Sydney 2000, 13 at Atlanta 1996, 11 at Barcelona 1992, eight at Seoul 1988, 21 at Los Angeles 1984, 13 at Montreal 1976, 17 at Munich 1972, 21 at 1968 Mexico Metropolis, 13 at Tokyo 1964, and 9 at Rome 1960. The Moscow 1980 version of the Olympics was famously boycotted by the Individuals.
