Olympic hero's stunning admission after record

Three-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown broke the satellite grounds successful the 200-metre backstroke connected Friday astatine the New South Wales State Open aquatics championships.

McKeown finished successful 2 minutes, 03.14 seconds, taking 0.21 seconds disconnected American swimmer Regan Smith’s people from the 2019 satellite championships successful Gwangju, South Korea.

McKeown won the 100 and 200 backstroke golds astatine the Tokyo Olympics and was a subordinate of Australia's winning 400-metre medley relay team.

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The grounds came connected the opening nighttime of the New South Wales conscionable astatine the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, tract of the 2000 Olympic swimming events.

Kaylee McKeown showed she'd gotten her emotion for swimming backmost successful a stunning show (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Im)

McKeown said she had lacked information to get backmost successful the excavation aft her Tokyo success.

“After the Olympics I recovered it hard to get up down the blocks again,” she said.

”(But) I’ve recovered a caller emotion for the athletics and it conscionable goes to amusement that a blessed swimmer is simply a accelerated swimmer.

"I haven’t needfully changed thing successful my programme oregon training-wise. It’s conscionable that I’m happier.”

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