2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
- Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
- La Défense Arena — Paris, France
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Pick ’em Contest
- Live Results
The 2024 Olympic Games are officially over (in the pool) so let’s talk about it. We dissect the best of’s from the women’s swimming competition in Paris.
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:18 Top 3 Swims
- 14:32 Surprise of the Meet
- 21:51 Heartbreak of the Meet
- 28:52 Race of the Meet
- 33:21 Narrative of the Meet
- 46:12 Swimmer of the Meet
It’s not a mile….it’s 1500 meters!!!
As a fan, the most surprising thing for me is that Summer’s performance was objectively exceptional but it felt expected. A lot of my non-swimmer friends who just found out about her from gold medal notifications on their phones kept texting me and i was like “yes, that swim was a great performance but it was not surprising at all”. A valuable lesson to not take her achievements for granted and enjoy what we are witnessing!
It’s wild how quickly the swimming world went from the shock of her going 4:29 in the 400 IM at that rando meet in March 2022 to a lot of people being a bit ho-hum over her Paris achievements.
SO TRUE
This meet solidified Kaylee’s status as goat of female backstroke. That’s all I took away from it. Summer was amazing as expected but biggest surprise was Meg Harris getting a silver in the 50 free with a massive pb
Tori in the 100 was an equal surprise to Meg.
Krisztina Egerszegi, look her up.
Don’t need too. Don’t be in denial, Kaylee is the goat of female backstroke. She stands out from her predecessors.
And she gets to carry the Australian flag at the closing ceremony jointly with another double gold medal winner in men’s dinghy Matt Wearn.