Kaylee McKeown insists she’s not bothered by narrowly lacking one other world document at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials.
McKeown was inside 0.16 seconds of her personal 200m backstroke world document on the Brisbane Aquatic Centre on Thursday evening.
The 22-year-old clocked two minutes 03.30 seconds, outdoors her benchmark 2:03.14 set in March final yr.
‘No, it would not trouble me in any respect,’ McKeown stated.
‘To be trustworthy with you, I am simply completely happy to nonetheless be swimming round that point, not many individuals on the earth are doing that in the mean time.
Kaylee McKeown missed out on one other world document on the Olympics trials in Brisbane
However the Australian swim sensation insists she is just not bothered about lacking out
‘There may be one which I can consider and he or she’s about to stand up and race so I am nervous to see what she does, however I am excited for the battle that now we have in Paris.’
McKeown was referring to American Regan Smith, who will race on the US Olympic trials subsequent weekend.
Smith held the world document for 4 years earlier than McKeown bettered it in 2023 on the NSW state championships.
McKeown’s near-miss follows one other on Tuesday evening when she snuck inside eight-hundredths of a second of her 100m backstroke world document.
McKeown can also be reigning Olympic champion within the 100m and 200m backstroke.
On Monday evening, she set a Commonwealth document in profitable the 200m particular person medley, an occasion she is including to her program for the Paris Olympics beginning on July 26.
