9-time Olympic medalist Ryan Murphy unpacks the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Murphy takes us inside the Olympic Games process, sharing insights, stressors, and the mood as Team USA worked through the gruelling 9-day event.
Murphy’s performance was up and down, a struggle at times, with moments of success. On balance, Murphy further penned his Olympic icon status adding three more medals to his career-haul.
Murphy details his 100 back, mixed medley leadoff, and the 4×100 medley leadoff. Murphy digs into the 200 back where the 2016 Olympic champion under-swam the semi-final costing him a lane in the Olympic final.
Overall Murphy is clearly in a moment of reflection, like all members of Team USA in the aftermath of an Olympics. While Team USA won the gold medal count — 8 golds over Swimming Australia”s 7 golds — it was Team USA’s weakest performance in 36 years, since the 1988 Olympic Games. Murphy acknowledges the rest of the world is catching up competitively, but he remains bullish on Team USA’s performance looking ahead to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Murphy also leaves the door open to competing at his 4th Olympic Games, at which time he will be 33 years old.
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And I’m glad that Ryan Murphy gave credit to China for their astonishing performance, which MS simply ignored in favor of bemoaning the US loss.
My biggest problem with this interview is the blatant jingoism. Yes, it’s good to unpack Team USA’s performance to see how we might improve. But there’s no acknowledgment of how well swimmers from other countries performed. (There’s barely any acknowledgment of our team’s great performances, except for Bobby Finke.) The biggest problem is for the US is…no Michael Phelps. Take away all his gold medals from 2004-2016, and where would we have been relative to other countries?
Gotta say Ryan Murphy has gone way up in my estimations after this interview. Mel not so much – felt like he was baiting Ryan who to his credit maintained his dignity and composure.
We are NOT WAITING for Murphy to EXIT the sport to become a hedge fund manager. Geez. What a rude interview all around.
Horrible interview all around, Mel bringing up the pool temperature 3 times? Asking Ryan if he thinks there’s a leadership issue then when Ryan explains there isn’t he brings it up again? Frustrating
I didn’t think it was rude at all. Mel has a very specific vantage point, bringing the perspective of an actual US Olympian to these conversations. Something that we armchairs will never really understand. Murphy gets that and wouldn’t have agreed to an interview like this if he didn’t. Mel takes these things deadly seriously and personally and doesn’t hide it, and he never has. If that turns you off, don’t watch his interviews.
Team USA is fortunate to have Ryan Murphy as a leader. What a class act. Amazing young man. Congratulations on all of your success Ryan and best of luck to you in all you do.
Listen to this interview and then Bob Bowman’s interview, there sure seems to be consensus that there needs to be “one throat to choke” around USA swimming and how we prep/organize/plan and execute on the run up to the Olympics.
Proud of Murph for maintaining his leadership role even now and still refusing to complain about conditions at the meet.
…in the background, off camera, he’s the same the guy.