Penny Oleksiak, still great.
Oleksiak was swimming for her third medal at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, coming after a relay silver on Monday and a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle on Wednesday, which would have pushed her past of the six career medals of speedskater Cindy Klassen and Clara Hughes, who was a medallist in both cycling and speedskating.
That performance surprised even her coaches and trainers at Swimming Canada, who expected her to be on track to be a medallist in Japan, not Brazil. The sudden success came with its challenges, and Oleksiak’s formed dipped in between Olympics. She switched coaches and spent more than a year away from the national swim program and did not approach her times from Rio despite reaching what is generally a more competitive age.
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