‘Nothing else I could have done’: Chalmers near perfect but Dressel a fraction better

In the fastest Olympic 100m freestyle final ever raced, against the quickest man in history outside the super-suit era, fractions of seconds were always going to take on an ocean of importance for Kyle Chalmers.

Dressel was simply too good, winning his first individual Olympic gold medal to add to his relay gold from Rio and two team golds in Tokyo. His time of 47.02 was the second-fastest ever outside the banned super-suit era and he’s not done yet, with the 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly his for the taking.

“It does [feel like a prize fight] and I think it’s been talked up as more than a race for a while now,” Chalmers said. “Obviously Caeleb and I have a pretty fierce rivalry. He was there in Rio, so we do enjoy racing against each other and we do bring the best out in each other. It’s almost a relief to get it over with now.“I executed the race to the best of my ability, from my dive, something I’ve really been working hard on, normally I’m already half a second behind Caeleb at the 15m mark.

“This year has been a real challenge for me. I started training so well, swimming really fast. I got back in the pool and probably started too fast and had a shoulder blow out. That was a really bumpy journey for me. Chalmers needed more cortisone treatment after the Olympic trials in June and admitted he thought, at times, he would end up watching Dressel’s coronation on TV instead of going stroke-for-stroke in the Tokyo pool.

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