Torri Huske finished 4th in the 100 fly at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. A year later, she won the world title in the same event. At the next year’s world championships after taking on an extreme course load at Stanford, still managed a bronze in the event. And finally, in Paris, Huske topped the podium once again… plus much, much more.
It’s no exaggeration to say the Paris Olympics was Torri’s best international competition to date. Not only did she score gold in the 100 fly (55.5), but she also won silver in the 100 free (52.2) and as a part of the 400 free relay (52.0) as well as gold in the mixed 400 medley relay (Free, 51.8) and 400 medley relay (Free, 52.4). Huske breaks down the training she did leading into the Games, how her less-than-ideal experience last summer helped her learn moving into this year, and what she did to improve her relay starts.
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Her relay starts are now average
Her swimming is best in world
She’s a top 5 swimmer in world. Not best in world.
But her relay exchanges are not good enough for DIII championships
Best in the world?….is this her mom or dad talking?
Torri had an incredible Olympic Games. She crushed it in the 100 fly and was outstanding in the 100 free
I have tremendous respect for Torri addressing her weakness in her relay starts. USA swimming needs athletes to be able to compete in relays. Torri’s relay exchanges hurt her. Massive respect to address it.
She still has some work to do. 52.2 flat start should be 50.9-51.5 flying start. Hopefully, she will continue to work on this and reach her full potential come LA ’28. I’d love to see America reclaim the top of to podium in all relays.
Torri further improving her relay start is step 1 to this process
52.2 to 50.9 would be a ridiculous differential. I think 51.4 is about as fast as anyone should reasonably expect (if her flat start stays a 52.2, of course)
Um wut? A good relay exchange should give 0.5 and that’s it. 0.6 flat start to 0.1 relay start.
The reaction time is only a portion of the equation. Depending on the person, the ability to use momentum to replace a lack of explosiveness can matter too.
A good start is made up of two things: reaction time AND power off the blocks. Generating power from a rolling start should, in theory, require less athleticism than generating power from a flat start.
I think Torri often gets underestimated. She has been very solid for team USA except for maybe one meet. So happy she did so well in Paris. Always a good interview.
I Am grateful that Torri “Terrific” Huske finally silenced Relay Names Guy about Greg Meehan
Feel like this is less about Meehan not failing and more about Torri being great
Huske was 52.29 flat start in her indv silver race (not 52.5)