Emma McKeon can add to Australia's golden haul in a women's 100m freestyle final packed with champions and record holders at the Tokyo Olympics on ...
TOKYO: Emma McKeon can add to Australia's golden haul in a women's 100m freestyle final packed with champions and record holders at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
The field also features Canada's defending Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak, Sweden's world record holder Sarah Sjostrom and 2016 medley relay gold medallist Abbey Weitzeil of the United States. "She’s in good form," Australia's five-times gold medallist Ian Thorpe told Seven television."But, of course, she’s up against Cate Campbell and the likes of the best competitors in the world."So that one’s a tough one to call, but I think she will medal in that."
"I wish had longer fingernails," she told reporters after missing it by five hundredths of a second. Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Lilly King qualified only fifth fastest.
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