Beating the USA in a relay is sweet. Australia’s underdog swimmers just did it twice in 15 minutes

There were nerves. Mollie O’Callaghan, who was assigned with the opening leg, hit his glasses in the blocks. No Cate Campbell. There is no Emma McKkeon. No Shayna Jack. This was one of the least experienced quartets that Australia had won the Olympic Gold in 2012, 2016, 2021 and 2024.

O’Callaghan (52.79), a 100 -meter free -style world champion in 2023, fired a great first leg before moving forward.

From there, the new arrivals fell to Milla Jansen and Wunsch – both of them got high points, but no one really knew whether they were in them to push the Australian house.

Wunsch (53.05), which they made as Jansen (52.89 Split), kept Australia in front of Australia before channeling Ian Thorpe at Gary Hall JR and the US’s Gold’s Torri shell over 3: 30.60 – 0.44 seconds.

The region of the Australian coaches exploded in the eyes of a young team when it was important.

“He was very intimidated, O’callaghan said. “We were all quite nervous. I trust these girls very much.”

Wunsch added: “I just wanted to provide power home and give everything I have. And it is really exciting to stand up with gold medals.”

Americans refused to elaborate the effect of the disease in the camps, but the butterfly world record owner Gretchen Walsh was shot one hour before the race.

“I don’t really want to talk about how much it impressed us or who affects us, Husk said Huske. “But we’ve done a really good job to stay flexible and to stay positive.”

Although Australian men have gained the same activity in the 2023 world titles in Fukuoka, they often live in the shadow of female colleagues. This time, the tasks were even more difficult on paper.

Darwin, Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor, Max Giuliani and Chalmers’daki staging camp to sit for a victory. They knew it would get something special.

In 2023, they held the world championships, but they had to settle in silver last year’s Olympics.

Southam (47.77), Taylor’s mother Australia Olympian Hayley Lewis in front of a sizzling 47.04 division before the tone determined.

Giuliani (47.63) put Australia in third place, and then came to Chalmers, who provided a destructive final division of 46.53 to motor Dolphins as a motor on an American team.

Chalmers Sudan sliced, his teammates smashed their starting blocks with their hands and asked for the veteran to the wall. This was the best swimming theater.

Australia finished at 3: 08.97, the USA is only 0.73 seconds except in 2008 only 0.73 seconds. Italy (3: 09.58) sprayed the US (3: 09.64) for the bronze.

Later, Dean Boxall and Head Coach Rohan Taylor came more celebrations while mobbing the people around them in joyful scenes.

Australia was not expected to approach, but the American competitors reduced a blow to 1-2.

Southam said, “The goal for us was just to punch Kyle,” Southam said. “That’s what we did. We all did our job in an extraordinary way.

“Girls are incredibly deep and strong, so we wanted to be a part of it. We may not be the most talented on paper … But we enter there and we have underdog mentality. This was very great.”

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When asked if the United States thinks that the result is shocked, Chalmers said: “I think this is very upset and we prove it many times. Every year you read the articles and people write to us.

“To be honest with you, we have a point to prove and swim with a chip on our shoulder.

“It was nice not only about the US, but also to hand in hand on the wall tonight and to hear that the Anthem of the Australian anthem was very special.”

In the meantime, the Americans were licking their wounds after not winning a gold medal overnight – the worst Olympic gold stones in the pool since 1988, a rare landscape for the swimming power center that folded gold stones in the pool.

“We’ve said, Cris Chris Guiliano said. “There are some dogs in this team.”