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Sarah Sjostrom and Michelle Coleman after the medal race in the 100 meters free.
Berlin. Three gold in three days.
Sarah Sjostrom dominates the EM basin. The question is whether it will look the same in a year when the World Championships in Kazan?
Answer is resounding yes. The question should be what medal haul she’ll opt out of the World Cup.
Three gold in three days.
Sarah Sjostrom dominates the EM basin. The question is whether it will look the same in a year when the World Championships in Kazan?
Answer is resounding yes. The question should be what medal haul she’ll opt out of the World Cup.
Autumn has come to Berlin but inside the EM scene sees Sarah Sjostrom sure the temperature is at the boiling point.
Her final race on Wednesday evening in the 100 meters freestyle was pure show, and gold time 52.67 was not only a personal record, but also the world’s fastest time this year at the distance.
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Thus, Sarah is now the fastest in the world this year at four distances, 100 and 200 meters freestyle and 50m and 100m butterfly, and second fastest in the 50 meter freestyle.
In the 50-meter butterfly, she is even a world record holder for a fantastic race in SM-week in Borås in July.
There are numbers that you can not talk away, and her toughest competitors in the United States and Australia should be really worried.
Nor is it possible to talk away the mental strength that Sarah has gained even though she is only 21. The setbacks in the London Olympics was tough, but two years later, it is clear that they made even stronger.
Today Sarah sees himself as a winner and already there is half the medal won.
Championships in Berlin is a stop on the way for Sarah and her coach Carl Jenner. A starting point for the two important years ahead, and an opportunity to check that what they have done in the past year has had an effect.
With four days left of EM knows Sjostrom and Jenner that they are on the right track. The next two years, they can leisurely fine tune the little things that will make her even faster.
A year before London Olympics Sarah went home from the World Championships in Shanghai without a medal. It was the first and so far only time it has happened, and confidence was also dented. History will not repeat itself in Kazan a year before the Olympics in Rio.
The question is what she will swim in the World Championships in Kazan. In the 50-meter butterfly, she has a sure gold medal, but the 50-meter butterfly is no Olympic-distance nor the distance Sarah priority. The investment in both the 50m freestyle and butterfly really began to strengthen her in the double distances. That she so quickly became so rapid that few in the world can threaten her on them was a nice but not expected side effect.
In Kazan’s three spacers 50 and 100 meters freestyle and 100 meters butterfly abandoned. Continuing the 50-meter butterfly and 200 meter freestyle.
VM program fits Sarah better because her individual abutments do not crash in the same way as the European Cup, but despite that, the question is whether it is better that she Kazan opt out of both the 50-meter butterfly and 200 meter freestyle.
She may be fastest in the world at both distances but 200 meters freestyle is a distance that Sarah is not happy with that swim championships. One ingredient that should not be underestimated. And the 50-meter butterfly will never give her an Olympic gold medal.
To opt out medals is hard but to Sarah’s voluminous programs it has now also been added focus on relay teams. Therefore, the difficult choices made in the search for the perfect OS layup to give Sarah her first Olympic gold.
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