qualified for a fifth Olympic event on the final night of the , setting herself up for an extraordinary and exhausting experience in Paris. The 17-year-old from Toronto didn’t just qualify in five different freestyle, butterfly, and medley events, she did it in a commanding fashion that suggests her goal of winning multiple individual Olympic medals in Paris is well within her grasp. , set world-leading times in the 400 freestyle and 200 butterfly, clocked the second fastest mark of the year in the 200 freestyle and the third fastest in the 200 medley, her final event Sunday night.
“Going to Paris, I’m super excited. I think it’s going to be an amazing meet, not just for me, but for all of Team Canada. Just watching do that the 50.
0 right before my race definitely gave me some motivation,” she said. Liendo, who had already qualified in the 50 and 100 free, lowered his Canadian record in the 100 butterfly in the morning heats and then won the evening final in a world-leading 50.06 seconds.
“I feel like it was really just a good trial, as they say, a good trial for the summer,” said the 21-year-old who grew up around the corner of the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, where the trials were held. More than 850 swimmers from across the country competed for the chance to represent Canada and, after a week of high-stakes swimming, 29 were officially named to the Olympic team and 20 to the Paralympic team. The squad includes Olympic butterfly champion Maggie Mac Neil, mult.