BERLIN. Well, I’m running out of words to describe that Sarah Sjostrom.
In the meantime, can we just talk about other things.
As she comes after.
One of the problems of swimming all championship is that it requires part pedagogy to explain exactly what a medal is worth.
During the European Championships in Berlin, the distances are very tough (as 50 butterfly), but also others (like the women’s breaststroke) where the toughest competitors are not with.
Yesterday juggled Sarah Sjostrom field with a hundred meter free, and with her is easy. Sarah competes with herself, she stacks super races at each other in a way that makes the resistance almost irrelevant.
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
But the funniest thing yesterday was that she was not alone. Michelle Coleman went with his first individual medal långbane, she showed that there are things going on in Swedish swimming, and above all, she showed that there are different paths to the top.
completely separate careers
Sarah and Michelle have been swimming with and against each other since Sum-Sim-time, two 93: or with long legs and completely different careers.
Sarah was a physical phenomenon and broke through as a fourteen year old .
Michelle was not the same.
When we were talking last night, she had a medal in hand and stories to tell.
– We are very long both, but Sarah was physically much older than me early. She could begin gyms before, she was strong and large much sooner than I did. I was tall, lanky, and not nearly as physically fit.
When Sarah Sjostrom had his breakthrough Michelle Coleman got his injuries. Her shoulders have sometimes done so much pain that she found it difficult to live a normal life.
But, she continued, and I was wondering if she had done it if she had come from any other city than Stockholm.
The one who wanted to be a freestyle down in world loads well into the 2000s could not ended up much more right.
A picture: A long small teenage girl in Täby Costume wins its first medal in the relay event at a SM. When she goes up to the podium, she did at the back, because she is the longest, but then the team’s star to pushing forward her so that she appears.
The star was named Therese Alshammar.
– It was incredible experiences, I am very happy that I got to swim so much with her, explained Michelle.
She together in ninety feet
She had Alshammar behind him, and she had a contemporary of Sarah Sjostrom ahead. Did she have inspired so she did not look.
The injuries have slowed down Michelle Coleman’s development, but if you saw her and Sarah swimming, hugging and standing on the podium together yesterday so did you see the two stunning swimming bodies not just one.
Conviction, camp in Australia during the gold coach Denis Cottrell and hard driving over Andrei Vorontsov and Carl Jenner in Eriksdal have given Coleman the chance to realize their swimming dreams.
The rest is mostly about time.
If she can train up, if she can continue to fight with Sarah Sjostrom on training, so Sweden will have a great freestyle down to keep track of about two years.
Yesterday she kept up her swimming in ninety feet, with a better basic training, she will be able to go out harder and keep the whole way.
Sarah Sjostrom is a story about a perfectly matched thunder talent so is Michelle Coleman something else, a story about why you should not give up even when it hurts so much that you are unable to lift his arms.
There are several routes to the top, several pathways from Sum-Sim for championship medals.
No one knows if what we saw in Berlin was the beginning of something big, but we can at least conclude that it did not stop before they came here.
Therese Alshammar inspired Sarah Sjostrom Sarah Sjostrom inspired Michelle Coleman, it’s that the sport works. During the rest of the EM week, we continue to follow Sjöström’s sovereign medal hunt.
Yesterday, I hope that Sweden was inspired by Coleman.
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