Steenbergen on 100 Free World Record: “It still feels so weird… I hope that it will sink in”

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Video captured by Aglaia Pezzato.

WORLD RECORDDD! This evening in Rome, Dutch world champion Marrit Steenbergen continued her transcendent season in the 100 free. After already dropping a historic 51.94 last month, Steenbergen dropped a bomb tonight and touched at 51.68. This broke Sarah Sjostrom’s 9-year-old World Record by .03, becoming the first woman to go sub-51.7. After the race, Steenbergen still hadn’t processed the swim, saying that it still felt weird that she was the new world record-holder.

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SpaceUnit
35 minutes ago

Okay maybe next time don’t do the interview in front of the PA system loudspeaker.

Sunion
51 minutes ago

Why is the sink still outside

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