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Our most up-to-date polls requested SwimSwam readers what the largest tales rising from the pool have been on the Olympic Video games:
Query: What has been the largest storyline of Paris 2024 up to now?
RESULTS
Marchand comes by means of beneath strain – 46.2%
Gradual instances in shallow pool – 36.9%
Razor-thin races for medals – 10.6%
High names off type – Qin Haiyang, Sam Brief – 5.1%
COVID withdrawals – 1.1%
Query: What was the largest story of the second half of the Olympic swimming competitors?
RESULTS
Marchand completes 4-for-4 – 52.5%
China ends U.S. males’s undefeated medley relay Olympic streak – 15.5%
Finke wins first particular person gold for U.S. males on Day 9 – 12.2%
Three world data – 11.0%
McIntosh turns into first Canadian with 3 golds at single Video games – 8.7%
Leon Marchand was not solely the largest star contained in the La Défense Area in Paris, however his performances within the pool reverberated across the complete Olympics, with different sports activities even pausing because the French crowd reacted to him successful gold on sure events.
Our two polls again up what everybody was feeling in Paris, as Marchand was voted the largest story of the pool swimming competitors each early on and down the again half of the 9 days.
He received the boys’s 400 IM by a landslide on Day 2, as anticipated, after which executed the 200 fly/200 breast double to perfection on Day 5, successful gold in each whereas upending defending Olympic champions Kristof Milak and Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner.
The primary ballot was considerably nearer than the second, because the dialog in regards to the instances being comparatively sluggish on the Video games was nonetheless on the entrance of everybody’s thoughts.
A few of the races the place this got here to the forefront probably the most was the boys’s 100 breast, the place the successful time was 59.03, a time 9 males had been sooner than in 2024, and the ladies’s 400 free, the place Ariarne Titmus was two seconds off her world file and Katie Ledecky failed to interrupt 4:00.
Nevertheless, the swims appeared to get faster all through the meet, and when the second ballot was put out, the sentiment that instances had been sluggish was gone.
Marchand was nonetheless the highest story, having accomplished an ideal Video games along with his fourth particular person gold within the males’s 200 IM, narrowly lacking Ryan Lochte‘s world file. Marchand turned simply the fourth swimmer in historical past with 4 particular person gold medals on the Olympics, and added a fifth medal on the ultimate night time of racing when he swam the breaststroke leg of the French males’s medley relay that claimed bronze.
In that race, China’s Pan Zhanle unleashed the quickest 100 freestyle relay break up in historical past, overtaking Jason Lezak‘s historic 46.06 leg from 2008 in 45.92, main China to an upset win over the Individuals.
China’s win marked the primary time in Olympic swimming historical past that the U.S. misplaced the boys’s medley relay, with the one non-American gold coming on the boycotted 1980 Video games in Moscow.
That end result earned the second-most votes at 15.5%, with the magnitude of Pan’s break up and the Individuals dropping the relay after struggling all through the competitors each factoring into it being an enormous story.
Bobby Finke successful the 1500 free on the ultimate night time and guaranteeing the American males didn’t go away Paris with zero particular person gold medals, and the truth that we noticed three world data damaged late within the meet, additionally picked up greater than 10% of votes.
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