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We sat down with the 2016 Olympic champion and 2020 silver medalist in the 100 free, Kyle Chalmers to get his perspective on the 2020 Olympic Games. Chalmers starts with the lead-up to his trials which was riddled with injury, namely in both of his shoulders. Chalmers admits he couldn’t even train at a full schedule until after the Australian trials.
However, once he was in Tokyo, he felt confident, especially after throwing down a 46.4 anchor split on the 4×100 free relay. Chalmers takes us through the prelims and semis of the 100 free and then gives us his expert analysis on the battle he had with Caeleb Dressel in the final. It was great to get Chalmers’ perspective on this because although he obviously wanted gold, he recognizes how much he went through to get to this point and what an achievement like this means to not only him but the people around him who helped make it happen.
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Loved this interview. He’s such a personable guy and loved the honesty! All the stuff about his injuries, also found the weight management bit interesting given all the attention the female swimmers get on the issue. He basically carried every Australian male relay so I’m glad he was rewarded with medals. Hope he stays healthy and swims on but also think if he leaves swimming he has a great future and will not look back.
I think quarantine and time away might help everyone after a big Championships!
Would love to see you try get cam McEvoy on this podcast? Got to be stuff going on behind the scenes with the huge drop off he’s had in recent years !
He unofficially retired in 2020 and get back to swim a few month before aussie trials
The fact that Kyle got silver in the circumstances is remarkable. He’s so chill about it. If it was me I would spend years thinking “if it weren’t for all the health issues would I have won gold?”. 6 hundredths of a second is not very much. Couldn’t be prouder of him.
First time I hear Chalmers reflect in a long interview. Impressive and likable. I hope he stays healthy and can compete at his highest level in Paris.
Kyle Chalmers is the epitome of an Olympian for me. He really has been through the mill with his shoulders and they did not even touch on his heart issues! He was so genuine, so mature and so articulate. None of that generic PR/marketing bullshit that Australian swimmers used to deliver a few years ago. He is very frank about himself and the challenges he has had and he speaks very well. One of the best interviews post-Olympics that I think I’ll ever hear.
A tie would have been nice 🙂
Related to Kyle’s question later on: Does SwimSwam have a rankings page for all time relay splits in LCM? I’d love to see that
You can see top 50 splits here: http://nuotomondiale.altervista.org/index.html
Can we by Caeleb another motorcycle to even the score with kyles shoulder?