Duel in the Pool: USA hold on to their crown but Australia are getting closer | Kieran Pender

at Bondi Beach, followed by two nights at the Aquatics Centre at Sydney Olympic Park, the Australian Dolphins threw everything at their American counterparts.

Taylor suggested that after a 15-year absence from the calendar, Australia v US would be back with more regular frequency. “Back to the drawing board,” he said.after an 11-point deficit overnight In the women’s 50m freestyle, the Australian stars Shayna Jack and Madi Wilson won through to the last race – purposefully swimming a slow, recovery lap with maximum points for Australia already in the bag. “We were trying to tie,” Wilson laughed afterwards, having been beaten to the wall by Jack by less than one-tenth of a second.

Even a late charge from the Australians was insufficient to reel in the Americans. The rising Australian para-swimming star Will Martin won a staggered 100m start race that saw the field compete across different classes and different strokes. McKeown then won the penultimate contest of the meet, a 200m mystery individual medley . The 21-year-old held on despite her stroke-order ending with breaststroke, the slowest stroke.

“It was the perfect way to finish off a career,” Cole said. “To swim here, as my last swim as an Australian Dolphin, with a mixed able-bod, para relay, it is something I never dreamed would ever happen. Well, I always hoped it would, but never thought it actually would. To have Duel in the Pool in a format where we were able to showcase our para swimmers alongside our Olympic swimmers was really cool.

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