14-06-2024 15:07 via theguardian.com

Mollie O’Callaghan beats nerves to win 100m freestyle showdown for the ages

World champion pips decorated field to seal Olympic slotAustralia’s greatest Olympian Emma McKeon misses outSmoke on the water, Fire in the sky. When the smoke cleared over the Brisbane Aquatic Centre on Friday night, there was wreckage everywhere.The women’s 100m freestyle final at the Australian Olympic trials was always going to be a combustible mix of pride, dreams and desperation, with both joy and devastation in its wake. There were too many champions fighting for too few Olymp
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