Olympic and World Champion Katinka Hosszu has only gotten better since coming off of last summer. At the FINA Champions Series in Indy, Hosszu dropped a 2:08.5 200 IM, over 1.5 seconds better than her 2:10.1 she swam to win European Champs. Obviously, she’s in a good place. She loves training in Budapest with her new coach and she’s clearly thriving. The Iron Lady can nearly swim anything she wants, but she’s focused on the 200 and 400 IM for 2019 FINA World Championships in Korea.
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I think Katinka wins 200 IM, her best event of worlds, in 2:06.4.
And, generally speaking, she defends her 2017 title in the 200 and 400 IM.
What do you think?
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Would have been better to interview her 5 minutes after she raced and not 5 seconds…
#TRUTH….(But we get what we can get…when we get it.)
Nothing natural added? So dang fast…
The more i see her in interview , the more i like her unique groove . What an amazing swimmer she is . 2 Golds this summer for her .
She gives a good interview, and comes across as much more friendly than I might expect from someone so competitive and driven. Considering all strokes and distances, she is possibly the best female all-around swimmer of all time. She was one of the highlights of the Rio OGs for me. Even with a silver in the 200 back, her overall performance that week was incredible (and let’s be honest, there is no shame in losing to Dirado there… that race was damn near flawless). It seems like she’s happy and that her training is going well this year, so I’m looking forward to her races in Korea.
She will win in 2:07 and 4:29
I think she will have to be sub 4:30 if she wants to beat Ohashi this summer.
Ohashi should play the long game and lose on purpose this summer. Maybe 4:34 and let Hozzsu focus on her other races for next summer
Uhh, who is her new coach?
Arpad Petrov is her coach and he’s really doing a fine job working with her. Keep up the good work Arpi!
Can we have a GMM on Shane Tusup? I am really interested in knowing what great things he has done (in addition to be being a world renowned golfer). My best guess is either a neurosurgeon, a nuclear physicist or perhaps an anger management coach.
I laughed way too hard at this!
Tusup 2020. You heard it here first.
Ya know. This would be a good GMM
great request …but i am sure Mel has more interesting swimmers to cover first ….
I’d hate to be the guys in her training group trying to keep up with her.