Australia’s coaching brains trust have defended their relay selection strategy after being ambushed into bronze by a stunning swim from China and a USA squad anchored by an airborne Katie Ledecky in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay.
The USA was always close and took silver after Ledecky melted a final leg of 1:53.76 to almost overhaul Lie Bingjie for gold. It was the second-fastest relay split of her career and in the context of a massive Olympic program, jaw-dropping. That would have been good enough for fifth in the individual 200m final but she remained out of the final four, with head coach Rohan Taylor and the coach of the relay, Dean Boxall, already having planned to swim four fresh athletes in the final, with all eight swimmers knowing the plan ahead of time.It was a long-term strategy, they said after the race, hatched from the experience in Beijing in 2008 where swimmers struggled to reproduce quick swims the morning after late heats.
The margin many had thought would be there simply wasn’t. Wilson and Neale scrapped hard to ensure they were on the podium, with Neale saying she could feel the pressure as China and the USA had them under siege.
phillutton78 The question we should be asking is how four girls with no form in the individual 200m suddenly drop PBs/1.55s to win a final in WR time? Where the hell were they in the individual race? Miracles just don’t happen in the pool unless……
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