Hosszu, the Hungarian swimmer nicknamed for her ability to swim a staggering number of events without tiring, won her third gold medal of the Rio Games, overwhelming the field in the 200-meter individual medley to set an Olympic record at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
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Canada’s Kylie Masse and China’s Fu Yuanhui finished with bronze after a dead heat.
But while Tusup was overjoyed by his Hosszu’s performance in the final, he wasn’t so stoked with her swim in the heat, when she narrowly missed breaking the world record. King led all the way to win the race with a time of 1 minute, 4.93 seconds.
Hungary’s gold medal victor Katinka Hosszu competes in the women’s 200-meter individual medley final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fencing has featured in the Olympic Games ever since the first of the modern era in 1896, and this year 246 athletes from 47 countries take part across 10 events. “Coming into Rio, I wanted to take it like any other meet”. I have been trying to wrack my mind around what’s going on.
Wait what did I just watch? She had won nine medals, including five golds, in world championship competition but had yet to break through at the Olympics. Instead, she struggled on swimming’s biggest stage.
“I’ve been chasing that world record for quite some time now”, she said, adding that she now felt she could go even faster.
Doping tensions in Olympic swimming erupted after American Lilly King beat tainted Russian rival Yulia Efimova and USA superstar Michael Phelps demanded life bans for swimmers with a drug record.
King narrowly beat her then slammed her rival, stoking the controversy over revelations of Russian stated-sponsored doping.
“I’m definitely more the one who’s laid-back”, she said. She had also criticized Efimova before the race.
At the culmination of Saturday’s race he could be seen screaming in delight and was nearly brought to tears by his wife’s victory. She said however that she would just treat the rest of the meet as fun, and would not be putting any pressure on herself.
Michael Phelps, a 19-times gold medallist after winning the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday, encountered similar problems on Monday.
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South African Chad le Clos claimed silver, with Conor Dwyer of the United States securing bronze. Britain’s James Guy could feature along with American Conor Dwyer, Chad le Clos – South Africa’s 200m butterfly champion at London 2012 – Australian Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Saturday’s 400m individual medley victor Kosuke Hagino of Japan.
