Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu continued her Olympic resurgence Tuesday night, winning gold in the 200-meter individual medley for her third gold at the Rio Games in 24 hours. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor of Great Britain won the silver medal and Madeline Dirado of the United States took bronze.
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Hungarian athlete Katinka Hosszú took home the gold gong for the 400-metre individual swim over the weekend, but Hicks remarked that her husband and coach Shane Tusup was the one behind her win.
On Saturday, the 27-year-old shattered the 400m individual medley world record for her first ever Olympic title. Only Naber has won four golds in one Olympics in USC history.
“It’s really weird. Honestly, I don’t think I had my best race tonight”.
Hosszu didn’t scratch the event prior to the session, nor did she give a reason for the no-show, so she’ll receive a charge of 100 Swiss francs.
While their relationship has been well-documented and has invited scrutiny in the swimming world in the lead up to Rio, the Twittersphere erupted after Hosszu’s performance on Saturday, with a number of Tweets blaming NBC announcer Dan Hicks for calling Tusup “the man responsible” for the record-breaking performance.
“I was so nervous, so afraid, what if I don’t win a medal?” she recalled. “I just focussed on the execution and was not worrying about where I came”.
Jessica Hardy, an Olympic medallist who used to train with Hosszu, wrote about being subjected to verbal and emotional abuse as a child, and said: “I’ve seen a lot of inappropriate and not-okay behaviour in Shane”. “Having three is really just a bonus”.
Hosszu still has the 200 back and 200 butterfly on her schedule.
“Katinka is having a fantastic meet”, said American rival Katie Ledecky, victor of three medals, including two golds.
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The USA’s Ryan Murphy set a new Olympic record of his own to grab men’s 100m backstroke gold and extend his country’s remarkable domination of the event to six successive Games, a run dating back to Atlanta 1996.
