No woman has repeated as Olympic butterfly champion in the women's 100 metres and try as she might, Canada's Maggie Mac Neil couldn't crack that nut.
Margaret Mac Neil, of Canada, reacts after swimming in the women's 100m butterfly finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024 in Nanterre, France. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld.PARIS – No woman has repeated as Olympic butterfly champion in the women’s 100 metres and try as she might, Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil couldn’t crack that nut.
“Torri’s been a great competitor and she’s had some really fast in-season swims this year,” Mac Neil said. “This race was anyone’s to win and it’s great she got her hand on the wall.”Huske’s winning time was 55.59 seconds ahead of teammate and world-record holder Walsh in 55.63 and bronze medallist Zhang’s 56.21.“In Tokyo, I think I was seventh after 50 and then kind of came back in the second 50,” she explained.
She and McIntosh were members of the women’s 4 x 200 relay team that placed an agonizing fourth in Tokyo, so Harvey made speed in the 200 free her mission since then.“Every time I was swimming it I was doing best times this year,” she said. “Last year at worlds, I didn’t make it through the prelims so that’s already an improvement making the semi and the final.
She didn’t have the usual NCAA dual meets to get sharp, and May’s trials ran up against European races she might have attended.“The timing of things didn’t really work out great for me as far as finding those competitions and places where I could practice racing the people that would be in this field,” Mac Neil said.Mac Neil returned from her Olympic debut in Tokyo with a complete set of medals, including freestyle relay silver and medley relay bronze.
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