Civil war bubbling in Paris as Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan clash in Olympic 200m
The civil war in Paris in the role of Arian Titomas and Molly Okraggans collided at the Olympic 200m.
Australian teammates Mollie O’callaghan and Ariane Titmus will meet 200m freestyle women at the Olympics Olympics in 2024.
That is the closest to the fact that the Australian swimming team in the Crostnit will fall into a civil war. Under the same coach, two Australian swimmers, similar to the talent and ambition of training in the same swimming pool on the outskirts of Brisbane, will be an Olympic gold medal for 200 meters free of charge. For one night only, Ariane Titmuss and Molly O’Callaghan’s relaxation will be shattered when they compete for the 200m crown.
Sorry about Dean Boxell today. The worrisome Master-Toe needs to exchange other things as his two champions are ready for the race to win.
It’s not a new one for boxals. He mainly controls two swimmers in the training pool at the Lutheran University in Sanpierre by separation. TitMus is trained in a medium -range group, and O’AKLAGAN works with a sprinter.
However, they are at a final speed test at a distance of 200 m. Titmus will succeed O’Callaghan at the Australian Olympic Trials in June and will go into the 200m final as the defending champion and world record holder, utilising his training from 400-800m to get close to the 200m. A two-time world champion in the 100m freestyle and last year’s world champion in the 200m, O’Callaghan will be competing in her first Olympic Games as an individual, showcasing her dynamic finishing and superb diving skills. She is known as a nervous athlete, but her nerves may have calmed a bit after winning her first Olympic gold medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay on Saturday night. Following her dominant victory in the 400m freestyle, Titmus will be seeking a second gold medal in tonight’s 200m freestyle final as she becomes the first Australian to successfully defend an Olympic title since Dawn Fraser (100m freestyle, 1956-60-64). Both women looked composed as they previewed today’s showdown in last night’s semi-finals. They were separated by just 0.06 seconds at the finish line to take the top two spots in the medal qualifying race. Titmus, 23, led most of the semi-finals and touched first, stopping the clock in 1:54.64. O’Callaghan, 20, was fourth for most of the race, but a brilliant underwater turn on the final lap got her to the start of the race and showed why she is so dangerous. O’Callaghan declined to speak after the semi-final but Titmuss remained confident as ever: “Once I get in the match I think I’ll settle in a bit and start to feel the momentum, so I put in the effort tonight and I’m looking forward to tomorrow,” she declared. O’Callaghan previously acknowledged the expectations surrounding the race: “There’s pressure and expectations. “I want to do well for Australia, I want to do well for the swim team, I want to do well for everybody so I have to deal with it in a different way,” she said.
Boxell will deliver individual messages to each of her swimmers ahead of the final, but O’Callaghan alluded to her coach’s words, saying the pressure will be on the top-ranked swimmers and past Olympic champions. “For the first time I have a person (races) at the Olympic Games, and this is new and fresh for me, so I will just study along the way,” said O’Aklagan.
Titmus can relax, knowing that its place in history is safe. A three-time Olympic individual gold medal winner, she already puts her name alongside the likes of Fraser, Murray Rose, Shane Gould and Ian Thorpe, and if she achieves her first double-double she will have a unique place in Australian sporting history. National team head coach Rohan Taylor said few Australian swimmers could “climb Everest and find that hunger again when you’re number one and everyone wants to beat you”, and he acknowledged Titmuss was “right up there” among Australia’s best swimmers. But that doesn’t mean she can’t be beaten. The last time Australia had the top two swimmers in an event at the Olympics was 20 years ago, when world record-holder Libby Trickett and Jodie Henry arrived in Athens for a 100m freestyle showdown. Henry, who came in second, won the race.
Taylor said he was happy to leave the management of both swimmers to Boxall, predicting they would “do their jobs” as they always do and that “they’ll both want to do their best in that moment.”
Meanwhile, Olympic newcomer Max Giuliani, 21, will be looking to make an impact in tonight’s 200m freestyle final, having qualified in fifth place (1:45.37). Giuliani, who nearly gave up swimming to become a professional athlete just 18 months ago, said he was determined to make the most of the opportunity. Like Titmus, Giuliani is from Tasmania. He vowed to “make it” in today’s final in a bid to win his first
