Kylie Masse has her second silver medal of the Tokyo Olympics. The 25-year-old from LaSalle, Ontario, came second in the women's 200-metre backstroke, with Australians finishing in front of and behind her.
TOKYO -- Several minutes after going into the red for another Olympic medal, Kylie Masse was still panting and puffing in an effort to restore oxygen to her depleted body.
"It's fun. It's definitely painful. A lot more painful than the hundred," Masse told reporters between breaths. "It's going to be a stinger and you have to have stick it out and have faith in your training and trust the process."Saturday's race played out similar to the 100. Masse pushed the front-end pace to lead at the turn, but was pipped at the wall again by Australia's Kaylee McKeown.
"I knew it was going to come down to the last bit. I think maybe from how I felt, my stroke rate maybe slowed down a bit at the end."Maggie Mac Neil won butterfly gold, the women's 4 x 100 freestyle silver and Penny Oleksiak bronze in the women's 200-metre freestyle. Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., was sixth in the 200 women's backstroke final Saturday in her first career Olympic final in an individual race.
Humility, dedication and grit are the ingredients that make Masse a world-class backstroker, says 21-year-old Ruck.
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