Published: July 27, 2021
It is unheard of for the American queen of the Olympic pool to swim well twice, and be beaten twice
Ariarne Titmus won her first international swimming medal when she was 16, at the 2017 swimming world championships in Hungary. Her coach, newly famous Dean Boxall, remembers it well. “When she went up, she’d never got a medal [before],” he recalled. “In Budapest, you’re on the top of the grandstand looking down, it was huge for her. There were so many Hungarians screaming and carrying on. She didn’t understand that people blow-dried your hair and put make up on [before the medal ceremony]. She came down and she was emotional.”
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