Olympic medalist Katharine Berkoff kept her momentum rolling from Paris, capturing 2 golds and a bronze in Singapore at the 2025 World Championships. This included gold in the 50 back, her first individual world title. Berkoff discusses competing through illness, NC State’s crazy deep backstroke core, and winning individual medals at each of the last 4 major summer international competitions.
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I like her a lot. She has a good personality and is chill.
Here’s an idea for an article: how many Olympic/World swimming stars have parents who have also been big stars, like Katharine Berkoff? Or stated another way, what is the most successful swimming family?
They already did multiple articles about this a couple weeks ago
They did already last month, not just one but two articles
I had to quit listening halfway through.I,m just done with diarrhea stories.I do wonder what the illness was.9 days seems awfully long for food poisoning.Also you have to question whether they should have been in quarantine.I don’t know how much the coaches knew about the root cause of the illness.However it seems to have been passed from swimmer to swimmer pretty easily meaning that getting on an airplane or into a warmup pool is endangering other people,not just your own swimmers.At what point do the coaches make the decision to quarantine and get doctors etc. involved.Seems pretty irresponsible.9 days of illness could easily kill an older or unhealthy person.
I,ll assume the downvotes are in favour of getting in a swimming pool or airplane no matter how sick you are.Not really very surprising to be honest.
It was an obvious contagious type of gastroenteritis. If a different country had allowed their sick swimmers to compete, affecting team USA, there would be a different kind of rant on this blog.
Katharine is such a treasure to USA Swimming! Great interview Coleman! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen you smile that much in a podcast 😉
The answer for why NCState backstroke is so insane is clearly: Braden is a backstroke genius
Everyone still calling if food poisoning is funny. They should not have been in the pool with respect.
Some of those quotes were insane.
Katharine said it like it is. Sometimes, life’s crazy.
I assume this is one of the first uses of “shart” on the podcast
Very entertaining. She just says it straight….even if she can’t swim straight😊