The Walsh sisters shared the pool on Saturday, where one suffered a painful disqualification and the other won gold.
The familiar roar of the pool crowd deafened as Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh touched the wall at the finish of the women's 200m individual medley.
"She rolls over...she went past vertical, that's the problem. The head has to come back and cannot go past that 90 degree mark," said NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines after the race."From that angle, that looks like that's the right call."Less than an hour later, her sister Gretchen entered the pool for a medal swim in the mixed 4x100m medley relay.
."Then I did one more 50 of warm down and then it was a DQ. I was just stopped in the middle of the pool, so upset." "I knew that I was going to have to move on from that quickly in the moment and give her a big hug, tell her that I'm here for her. And then go out and do this in her honor," Gretchen Walsh said.
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