Lolli Polli01 yea. How does one become an olympic swimmer and got degrees in engineering, finance and science in the meantime? Jeez

Who?

She is one of my heroes. What an amazing person! I wish i had met her in person before she retired from professional swimming.

@@r0sy67 She is also a good & balanced person. She is indeed amazing.

Maya is amazing! My daughters swam on the same club team as her. I did computers with her dad and her mom was an official. The whole family is amazing. Not only is she super talented, super smart and beautiful, shes one of the sweetest people in the world.

Watch Lezak's finish in the 4x100 free relay back in 2008. Same type of vibe as this one. They were both losing by a significant margin and made a miraculous comeback.

You and I do not watch swimming the same way

It's crazy how many times finishes and timing your stroke decides medals. Look at Phelps like 4 races that have been decided by .09 or less. The one with Crocker, Le clos, Cavic etc he wins or loses on finishes.

Agus Leaves the a top

I’m still learning how starts can affect a a lot and this really proves it

That's why I'm better at executing good turns, starts, and finishes, but I'm not as good at actually swimming 😂

Ok so I’m not a bad swimmer but my turns and underwater work are trash so naturally I dominate in long course

guitta Dabe some said she only smiled because the camera was on her and she saw herself on the big screen, she's greatly disappointed, dirados reaction was more beautiful, she couldn't stop smiling and tearing up as well, during the medal as well

Agreed. Of course she was disappointed, the whole reason these athletes go to Olympics is to win a medal for their countries, if its Gold, the better. She showed good sportsmanship, unlike certain swimmers who went out of their way to make others (more)miserable than they already felt. I felt so proud of Maya since she was my favorite swimmer for Team USA and beating Katinka is not impossible, but its incredibly hard to do so. She went out with a Bang! and I'm happy for her. Katinka has been a machine in the world cup so far, she's the Iron Lady for a reason!

Since this was Dirado's last ever swim in her career she put everything she had into that final 25m since she was retiring after the Olympics and it paid off.

guitta Dabe Her initial reaction was disappointment

of course she messed it up at the last turn circle swim that cost the victory, hard to lose like that

Sister Brothers ditto

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@@sanghamitramitra2629 yes

She's been called that in all her races by the commentators. I don't know when she picked up the nickname.

Because she participates in some hardcore mid-long and long races on female's side.

Latoja Montes+ Katie Ledecky is the Vibranium woman! (Yes I know vibranium is not real, I'm not a dumbass)

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I don't have the knowledge to recognize what a skillful swimmer she has always been, but here in her home town among swimmers, she was known as outstanding. Hard work & great attitude/family support = American-type champion.

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yes, but the Iron Lady have at this time 3x Gold in Rio and swimm much more race then all other. She was little tired at the end. But the US.Lady have also deserve a gold medal, have also swim good in the other categorys this Hosszu wins.

who is iron lady

yeah

Yes. I love missy😍😩

Candace Lei agreed all the wayyy

Where is her dope test report ???

What happened to Missy ?

She is a legend !

She's a cheat.

she beat americans so she cheats. phelps wins so many golds becoz he trains hard. typical american logic.

Suzi M Phelps won 23 golds, winning the 400 IM by 6 sec in Beijing. Abnormal arm span implying the use of human growth hormone. But of coz you won't find him suspicious because he is an American like you!

+Chan Mark hahaahahahaahahahahahhahha

Chan Mark that's kind of racist

I feel her tho 😔

Dj Sparkles is there no age limit for olympics? I'm 22 yrs old and recently started swimming. I love to swim and wish to practice enough to be capable for olympics. What are the other competitions that i should participate in? There's not much awareness about sports in my country.

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Anya Sasata she swims in the US, we do yards in the winter

Im ten, and I go a 35.13

mine was 37.78 and im 10..........

Jack Weger Hope you saw how Katinka did at Worlds before a hometown crowd in Budapest... Swimswam.com has the details.

Hosszu is great. She will down as one of the greatest female swimmers ever.

😂😂😂

Dirado went 2:06.90 at the Olympic Trials a month prior to the Olympics. She simply timed her races better at the Games by saving her energy until the final instead going fast on all three races like Hosszu did.

Sawyer Peterson same

Egerszegi is an incredible backstroker. Up there with Hosszu and Missy as greatest ever.

They're great obviously, but I don't think they're in her class. The only swimmers in Eger's class are Fraser and Ledecky. Perhaps Gould and Caulkins to a lesser extent and as for peak swims Meagher and Evans. But Egerszeki is the most underrated all-time great in the pool.

Otherwise people would just do dolphin kicks underwater, which isn’t really backstroke

She stayed underwater too long after her last touch of the wall. That took all of her energy out.

Maya just was faster the last 50.........happens all the time........

She just has blond eyebrows

Desmond P T are you saying you wouldn't be disappointed to win silver by tenths of a second after a winning streak?

Well, I would be VERY very very disappointed for sure but I certainly didn't know this was the way to show disappointment. It was as if she was showing disdain to Maya.

I saw it differently. She even smiled. I saw nothing but good sportsmanship from the Iron Lady.

Desmond P T I would be thankful that I made it to the finals in the olympics

Revisiting this 12 Aug 2017

Injuries

Anna Chang She didn't make the finals.

She had back issues

I do too!!

God bless

Very few are born with the talent and physiology to be olympians. But almost everyone can be much much better and faster than they ever thought possible. Keep training and work hard no matter the result. Race with courage and take the pain when it comes. Do that, and whether you make it to the Olympics or not I promise you that you will be proud of yourself forever.

Awkward Beanie U can do it c:

Me too. I hope we will best.

She kindda does 😲

Well that's just not true. She's won like that multiple times; the 200 fly in Windsor2016, the 100 back in Rio (where the first 6 ppl were within a second of her, in fact), the 200 back in Berlin just now and in 2016 at the World Cup... I've also seen it several times at smaller meets like Mare Nostrum. You just haven't seen enough of her races 😛