Her time of 57.13 seconds in the 100 backstroke set up what should be a stirring showdown at the Paris Olympics.
INDIANAPOLIS — The one universality about elite-level international swimming is that the sport will eventually break you, or at least try to. It is the rare swimmer who hasn’t cratered — mentally, emotionally, physically or some combination of the three — somewhere along their journey in a sport governed by a heartless and unrelenting clock. Swimmers typically don’t undergo many surgeries, but almost all of them bear scars.
Asked to contrast the 17-year-old phenom who broke the 100 back record at the 2019 world championships to the one who regained it Tuesday, she said: “When you’re 17 … it was very easy. I had no pressure on me. I was always the youngest. No one expected much out of me. So it was easy to walk into races just feeling fearless. Now tonight, I’m in a much different place in my life. I’m a lot older. The pressure is different. The expectations are different.
In the only other final contested Tuesday, Bobby Finke, a two-time gold medalist in Tokyo who trains with Katie Ledecky at Gator Swim Club in Gainesville, Fla., won the men’s 800 free in 7:44.22 to become a two-time Olympian. Late-charging Luke Whitlock, 18, was second in 7:45.19 and will join Finke in Paris. He became the youngest man to make the Team USA swimming roster since Michael Phelps competed at the Sydney Games in 2000 at 15.
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