2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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- Prelims Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
- Finals Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
- Complete final results (PDF)
A seasoned veteran on the international stage, Lilly King still has a lot left to give in the pool. She left Budapest with 4 medals, including individual silver in the 100 breast, individual bronze in the 50 breast, and gold (and a world record) as a part of the women’s 4×100 medley relay. King noted that since she’s been back in the pool after the Paris Olympics, she’s been swimming fewer practices in a week than ever before in her career.
Very curious to see what happens if she drops the 200. It definitely felt like she had something to prove in it going from 2016 to 2020, but now that she did, I wonder if we can see a Sjostrom or McEvoy like peak by focusing on sprints – she’s approaching the same age where they began to do so
Less is more!
#SprintRevolution
#brandedgear
all the haters nagging on lilly’s personality are going to miss her when she retires and theres a gaping crater in our sprint breaststroke ranks — just saying!
Yup. Also, you have to wonder if Lilly’s personality and “behavior” would be so off-putting to folks if she was a man.
Give us an example of a man who intimidates age groupers who is also liked by the public. It has nothing to do with gender, its character.
Brett Hawke?
(I guess I could have made this same joke with a lot of coaches)
There’s definitely a chunk of people with an underlying disdain for women, but I cannot believe you people genuinely believe that all criticisms of her abrasive personality would cease if she was a man.
I’ll always remember her saying 2 things in interviews.
1. She said that she works harder than everyone else.
2. She’s never rested even though she goes the same time in ‘unrested’ meets as end of the season championship meets.
Didn’t you get the memo? No one rests anymore.
I can’t stand when Michael Phelps says he worked harder than everyone else
Tyler is that you?
I love her competitive spirit. She’s such a respectful athlete, and her energy towards the sport is such a great role model for all of the swim world!
She’s one of the more disrespectful athletes in my opinion. It’s said she was fairly disrespectful to Lydia Jacoby during the Tokyo Olympics.
This!! She is beyond disrespectful to athletes no matter if they are elite or age groupers. There are much better ambassadors for the sport than Lily.
She has this very outgoing personality that presents itself as arrogant and cocky. See: engagement after the 200m breast at the Paris Olympic Trials (despite the fact that she almost didn’t make the team and lost by a very large margin). Specifically, I recollect that at the 2023 GG relay awards speech, she immediately took the mic for herself and started by talking about herself despite the fact that Kate and Gretchen were standing right there. Great athlete, but her behavior for a veteran is immature and disrespectful.
I agree, but give her a break. She must have been excited
Yep, respect the talent but the personality is not for me. But to be fair, there are about 3 people in this world that I can truly tolerate
Yep the engagement right after Kate beat her at Olympic Trials was poor timing. Arguably not her decision but just another example.
It certainly seemed like a distraction, and a bit of a stunt. To me it detracted from the seriousness of trials. For some swimmers this meet may be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. To get into the top 2 even more so. The engagement thing was unbecoming. I hope it’s a happy marriage, of course!
If it wasn’t her decision than why are you all critisising her for that? Be fair
What does her engagement have to do with anything? She didn’t propose to herself.
Could you please elaborate on how she was disrespectful to Jacoby in Tokyo?
https://ngscsports.com/2021/05/09/us-olympic-swimming-stop-trying-to-freak-out-your-rivals-lilly-king/