/ 29 July 2024

It’s going swimmingly

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

If you weren’t in awe of Ariarne Titmus’s defeat of Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh and American legend Katie Ledecky to bring home our first gold from the pool of the Paris Games in the women’s 400m final yesterday morning, then who even are you? You can watch the “race of the century” here – it certainly lived up to the hype despite a rocky start with the Aussie settling in behind the wrong block… The win backed up her gold medal performance in the same event in Tokyo, making her the first Aussie woman since Dawn Fraser in 1956 to defend an individual Olympic title in the pool. Also having a whale of a time in the pool is Emma McKeon – she’s become our most successful Australian Olympian ever after winning gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay. It was her sixth Olympic gold, surpassing Ian Thorpe’s 5. “I couldn’t think of anyone better to have that title,” he said.

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