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Gretchen Walsh comes up a hundredth of a second short of bronze in Olympics crusher
By Ethan Sears,
4 hours ago
The smallest of margins can have the largest of impacts at the Olympics.
While the United States ultimately edged Australia in gold medals to close the Olympic swimming competition, it failed to get on the medal stand at all in the women’s 50-meter freestyle on Sunday as Gretchen Walsh finished off the podium by .01 seconds.
Bobby Finke’s world-record finish in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle got the U.S. to seven, and Walsh, was part of the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay that gave the U.S. its decisive gold.
Walsh had three medals heading into the day, with gold in the 4x100m mixed relay and a pair of silvers in the women’s 100-meter butterfly and women’s 4x100m freestyle relay.
The University of Virginia swimmer, 21, is likely to be back at the 2028 LA Games, and despite her successes in Paris, will have something to dwell on after Sunday’s race.
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