“We obviously know the success we’ve had.”Ī third of the way through a half-dozen chunks of precious metal before Masse reverse-stretch-arced out of the blocks on Tuesday morning, emerging from the plunge and trying to stay as close to the surface as possible, again to limit that resistance. “I don’t think there’s a lot of pressure,” Masse had said. They very much have been that through the early stages of competition inside the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.Ĭollectively, the distaff side of the Canadian swim team conduct themselves with cool poise, like they’ve been here before, you know? As if there’s not a massive burden of expectations, a nation’s hopes, dropped on their broad shoulders. “We want to be in the hunt with the best in the world.” On a powerful Canadian team that was looking to equal if not better its six-pack of medals from Rio, Masse - who won one of those - is the veteran and just 25 years old, though likewise in only her second Olympics, like most of that repeat cohort, circa 2016. “As soon as you get in the water, there’s resistance.” Not as good as proper distance laps and accurate split times, but it did in a pandemic pinch. Soon as the weather warmed up enough, Masse cleverly fashioned a swimming harness that tethered her to the property’s fence, enabling her to swim “static,” keying on alleviating resistance in the water, in jury-rigged fashion. For Masse, swimming out of the varsity squad at the University of Toronto, that meant - when the pool was shut down in the first wave last year and no group training permitted - moving back into her parents’ house in hometown LaSalle, Ont., with its backyard pool. It required ingenuity during stages of the on-and-off lockdowns in the province. And the Australian has had a lot more time in the pool bracketing a pandemic than the Canadian. Just one straining reach of the arm behind McKeown for Masse. I was telling myself I need to calm down, calm down, for (my) semifinals.” “Watching Maggie yesterday was so incredible and inspiring and I was so fired up.
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“I knew I had that front-end speed and I wanted to start off with a bang.”įor Canada, a fifth Olympic medal, third silver and third circular pendant derived from the pool, after Maggie Mac Neil’s gobsmacking gold in the 100-metre butterfly on Monday, and the 4x100 freestyle on Sunday. Then for finals, I just wanted to go out and leave it all in the pool. I was trying to stay calm and controlled through prelims and into the semis. “Coming into this race, it was a three-set process, from prelims to semis to finals. Masse attacked the first 50 and led at the turn. Kylie-Kaylee-Regan: It’s almost sing-song, so often are they tri-yoked together, the backstroke triumvirate.
It was an incredibly challenging and talented field of backstrokers that have been swimming crazy fast this whole year, so I knew it was going to be a battle.” “I upgraded from 2016, so I’m really happy with that. “I’m happy with it,” Masse said after the medal ceremony in the mixed zone. Two-time and reigning world champion Masse actually broke the Olympic record (as it had stood) as well on Tuesday morning here: 57.72, that mark established by Smith just a day earlier in their heats. That’s drama: The three fastest women in the world, ever, in the pool together at the same time in the same race.Įach having earlier this week shaved a sliver of a microsecond - measured in hundredths of a second - off the existing Olympic record.Īll three world podium polished in global competition. With American Regan Smith earning bronze. Though it took a new Olympic record of 57.47 from Australian Kaylee McKeown to beat her for the top podium. Silver for Canada’s Kylie Masse in the 100-metre backstroke. The three fastest women in the world came out of the water 1-2-3.
TOKYO-The three fastest women in the world went into the water within a hair’s breadth quiver of each other.
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