Regan Smith Says Scratches Due to “Stomach Bug/Food Poisoning”

by Riley Overend 14

January 13th, 2023 National, News, Pro Swim Series

PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE

Three-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith says she’s dealing with “a stomach bug/food poisoning” that kept her out of two A-finals on Thursday night and two prelims races on Friday morning.

After missing the 200 freestyle and 50 backstroke A-finals on Thursday as well as the 200 butterfly and 400 free prelims on Friday morning, Smith posted an update on her Instagram story.

“Popping in to say I came down with a stomach bug/food poisoning after prelims yesterday,” Smith wrote on Friday. “Taking it day by day.”

Smith was the top seed in 200 fly and the No. 26 seed in the 400 free on Friday. Her status remains up in the air for the 200 IM and 100 free on Saturday, where the 20-year-old American is seeded 10th and 14th, respectively.

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BOBFROMTHEISLAND
1 year ago

Hope she feels better soon

Last edited 1 year ago by BOBFROMTHEISLAND
SCCOACH
1 year ago

Maybe a bad bout of kyliemasseitis

Mike
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

Trying to remember Smith ever backing down from someone/something and coming up blank. Pretty lousy insinuation.

SCCOACH
Reply to  Mike
1 year ago

It was a joke Mikey

FLSwimmer
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny, SCCOACH?

Swim2win
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

Some people aren’t meant to try and be funny. You’re one of them. You happen to be one of those people that tells a joke and people look at and move on in 2 seconds because nobody cares.

SCCOACH
Reply to  Swim2win
1 year ago

Get over it

Katie
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

Not while you’re insulting young female athletes. Jokes are only funny if they punch up. Punching down like you do is pathetic.

Last edited 1 year ago by Katie
SCCOACH
Reply to  Katie
1 year ago

You all caring so much about a super minor joke that fell flat is pathetic. I’m not sitting here rooting for Regan Smith to fail. Relax and get off your high horse . It wasn’t even an original joke I got it from people on here saying that Dressel had Popoviciitis when he pulled out of worlds

Ferb
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

As you said, your “joke” fell flat. It wasn’t remotely funny. Just walk away & try to learn something from it, instead of being all defensive and trying to flip the blame onto your critics.

Erik
Reply to  SCCOACH
1 year ago

Seems like a weird place and time to die on a hill, the comment threads on swimswam.

Speculator
Reply to  Katie
1 year ago

I find this up/down system confusing. Not that it was such a funny joke or anything, but it seems like a strange hierarchy that would have a swimswam reply guy wielding power over an Olympian/world record holder. I’d bet that Regan Smith has learned to shrug off silly jokes like this by now.

Purple Dinosaur
Reply to  Katie
1 year ago

Is a non-pro-athlete who’s making a swim coach’s salary (aka not good) making a joke about a pro athlete making a million dollars a year “punching down”?

Seems weird to always assume that female athletes are somehow “down” compared to everyone else. Seems in this case that Regan is an “up” versus most of us commenting here, right? She definitely is way above me in the foodchain.

Erik
Reply to  Purple Dinosaur
1 year ago

It’s coach > athlete, power dynamic. Older adult > younger adult… to name a couple.

About Riley Overend

Riley is an associate editor interested in the stories taking place outside of the pool just as much as the drama between the lane lines. A 2019 graduate of Boston College, he arrived at SwimSwam in April of 2022 after three years as a sports reporter and sports editor at newspapers …

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