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Torri Huske and Regan Smith win gold as part of the 4x100m medley relay team!!!

A dominant world record by about 0.8 seconds, winning by 3.5 seconds over Australia.

AND, world record (57.13) holder Regan Smith set an Olympic record of 57.28 on the lead-off backstroke leg, beating this year's gold medalist by 0.44.

Times were
Smith (back) 57.28 (0.59 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 57.66 (0.53 RT) vs PB&WR 57.13
King (breast) 1:04.90 (0.29 RT) vs Individual event (T4) 1:05.60 (0.66 RT) vs PB&WR 1:04.13
Walsh (fly) 55.03 (0.22 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 55.63 (0.75 RT) vs PB&WR 55.18 vs Mixed Medley Relay 55.18 (0.36 RT)
Huske (free) 52.42 (0.29 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 52.29 (0.63 RT) vs Mixed Medley Relay 51.88 (0.36 RT) vs Free Relay 52.06 (0.00 RT) [WR: 51.71]

Better starts, safe but not fast.
The first three had the fastest splits for their legs (not surprising since they are all world record holders in their events). Huske was 3rd fastest, behind Australia & China.

While all had really great swims, Smith & King would/might have won gold if they had done this in the individual events.
Except for a slow start in the individual event, Walsh was amazingly consistent ( total - RT = 54.81, 54.88, 54.82) at just off her world record pace.
Huske was about 0.5 slower than her fastest.

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In the category of making up for a poor individual swim, I wanted to point out that 100 fly world record holder Caleb Dressel, who didn't make the semifinals with a 50.83 in the prelims, swam a great 100 fly in the medley relay 49.41 (0.19 RT), which with his prelim RT would have gotten gold in the 100 Fly finals (0.66+(49.41 - 0.19)=49.88), beating the winning 49.90.

(In today's swimming coverage on Peacock, the woman announcer hardly paid attention to the Americans. I surely missed Rowdy Gaines!)

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That page, where they have the events for the swimmers, doesn't even list the 4x100 Mixed Medley Relay as an event for Huske, much less Smith.

It does list Huske's gold in the event but not Smith.

Read what I wrote.  Yes, they do have a box with Huske's Mixed Medley Gold, but where they have the events for the swimmers,("Cardinal Olympians") the page doesn't list the Mixed Medley Relay for either swimmer.

Heck, that page doesn't have the Women's Medley Relay as one of the events on Sunday in their schedule part.

Official confirmation that Smith got a gold for the Mixed Medley Relay.

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Torri Huske and Regan Smith win gold as part of the 4x100m medley relay team!!!

A dominant world record by about 0.8 seconds, winning by 3.5 seconds over Australia.

AND, world record (57.13) holder Regan Smith set an Olympic record of 57.28 on the lead-off backstroke leg, beating this year's gold medalist by 0.44.

Times were
Smith (back) 57.28 (0.59 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 57.66 (0.53 RT) vs PB&WR 57.13
King (breast) 1:04.90 (0.29 RT) vs Individual event (T4) 1:05.60 (0.66 RT) vs PB&WR 1:04.13
Walsh (fly) 55.03 (0.22 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 55.63 (0.75 RT) vs PB&WR 55.18 vs Mixed Medley Relay 55.18 (0.36 RT)
Huske (free) 52.42 (0.29 RT) vs Individual event (2nd) 52.29 (0.63 RT) vs Mixed Medley Relay 51.88 (0.36 RT) vs Free Relay 52.06 (0.00 RT) [WR: 51.71]

Better starts, safe but not fast.
The first three had the fastest splits for their legs (not surprising since they are all world record holders in their events). Huske was 3rd fastest, behind Australia & China.

While all had really great swims, Smith & King would/might have won gold if they had done this in the individual events.
Except for a slow start in the individual event, Walsh was amazingly consistent ( total - RT = 54.81, 54.88, 54.82) at just off her world record pace.
Huske was about 0.5 slower than her fastest.

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In the category of making up for a poor individual swim, I wanted to point out that 100 fly world record holder Caleb Dressel, who didn't make the semifinals with a 50.83 in the prelims, swam a great 100 fly in the medley relay 49.41 (0.19 RT), which with his prelim RT would have gotten gold in the 100 Fly finals (0.66+(49.41 - 0.19)=49.88), beating the winning 49.90.

(In today's swimming coverage on Peacock, the woman announcer hardly paid attention to the Americans. I surely missed Rowdy Gaines!)

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That page, where they have the events for the swimmers, doesn't even list the 4x100 Mixed Medley Relay as an event for Huske, much less Smith.

It does list Huske's gold in the event but not Smith.

Read what I wrote.  Yes, they do have a box with Huske's Mixed Medley Gold, but where they have the events for the swimmers,("Cardinal Olympians") the page doesn't list the Mixed Medley Relay for either swimmer.

Heck, that page doesn't have the Women's Medley Relay as one of the events on Sunday in their schedule part.

Official confirmation that Smith got a gold for the Mixed Medley Relay.