TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2016 SPORTS Campbell wants gold at Rio, not records: Coach MELBOURNE: A month out from the Aquatic Centre but was also quick to 24-year-old Campbell is unlikely to need said. “I never really give her a time to Fraser and Jodie Henry, who won gold in Olympics, Cate Campbell’s 100 metres remind her that the world record would further reminders of how luck can chase, it’s more of a process but some- Athens in 2004. Queenslander Libby freestyle world record is a testament to mean little on the starting block at Rio. change the game when she appears at times (swimmers) do get it in their head Trickett, another four-times Olympic her class and determination but the “Whilst it’s really nice to have the her third Olympics. to chase a time and they generally over- champion, held the record three times Australian will not chase the time in pur- mark, it’s no guarantee of what’s going She won bronzes in the 50m freestyle cook the first 50 in a 100-metre race. from 2004-09 before Steffen took it in a suit of gold at Rio de Janeiro, according to happen at the Games,” the Brisbane- and 4x100m relay on her 2008 Games “She’s really learnt just to rely on synthetic suit and improved her mark at to her long-serving coach. based 39-year-old told Reuters yester- debut in Beijing before losing years to ill- ‘automaticity’ which is just created by the 2009 world championships in Rome. Campbell’s 52.06-second swim at the day. “Winning a gold medal comes down nesses including glandular fever and race training sets,” he added. “She just A number of records set during the Brisbane Grand Prix on Saturday shaved to one moment in time and not only do post-viral fatigue. At her second let it flow out there and it came togeth- controversial super-suit era remain. “I just one one-hundredth of a second off you need great preparation, you do Olympics in London, she won gold in the er, so it was just fantastic.” Cusack said he was there in Rome on the day when Britta Steffen’s seven-year-old mark but sometimes need a little bit of luck on 4x100m freestyle relay but her individual felt Campbell could raise her pace again. Steffen set the record and I remember landed a heavy psychological blow to your side,” he added. “When you’re living campaign was wrecked by a bout of “I don’t think the project’s ever fin- thinking back then, ‘this one is going to her rivals, including her world champion in an Olympic village with people com- pancreatitis. ished,” he said. “She’s obviously probably stand for a while’. And it did,” Cusack said. sister Bronte. None have come close to ing from all corners of the globe and eat- When fully fit, the 2013 world cham- somewhere towards the peak of her “For the super-suit era, the sooner it German Steffen’s time which was set in a ing out of the same food hall you get pion has shown she has no peer, howev- career but it depends on how long she’s can be erased, the better. It was just a now-banned synthetic suit in 2009. exposed to a lot of viruses and bacteria. er, as witnessed by her breathtaking willing to stay in it. “Her starts and turns tumultuous time in swimming history Bronte Campbell is a distant second in “So that’s why winning a gold at the return to form this year. are consistently improving and that’s and what it did at the time was it made a the world rankings, her best time of the Olympics is such a tough thing and very been a gradual process. So, I’d like to bit of a joke out of world record stan- year more than half a second slower often they’re not won in world record THROWN DOWN think that she can get faster.” dards. It really discriminated against the than her older sister’s. time. So I’ve expressed that to Cate,” The record has inevitably been Campbell joins an illustrious club of ones who set the previous ones in the Simon Cusack, mentor to both Cusack said. “She’s very, very happy with viewed as a gauntlet thrown down, but Australians to have held the world old lycra costumes,” he added. “So it’s a Campbell sisters, was bursting with having that world mark but it doesn’t Cusack said it came by coincidence, not record in the blue riband event, includ- great thing that Cate’s been able to pride after Cate tore up the Brisbane change anything from here on in.” The design. “It was just an organic thing,” he ing four-times Olympic champion Dawn erase that mark.” — Reuters Phelps leads newcomers on road to Rio Olympic OMAHA: Michael Phelps, one of the world’s at the top of the world rankings, and just two most recognisable athletes, will lead a crop of women in Katie Ledecky (200, 400, 800 free) and new faces to Rio as a week of ruthless competi- Lilly King (100 breast) atop the lists. tion at the US Olympic trials ended on Sunday Many of the winning times were slower than and shifted the focus to the Summer Games those four years ago at the London trials, a puz- pool. Phelps and old foe Ryan Lochte, the 31- zling development that neither Bowman nor year-old pillars of US swimming who between women’s coach David Marsh could explain. them have amassed 33 Olympic medals, will “One of the things we have always done well, again provide the foundation for a 45-member better than anyone else, is improve from the tri- squad that will be a mix of experience and als to the Games,” said Bowman. youth. At one end of the spectrum are Phelps, “I’m confident we will do that again, we have who will compete in his fifth Games and Lochte a great plan in place and quite frankly we are his fourth. At the other extreme are 30 Olympic going to have to do that if we are going to have newcomers. Out, are Olympic champions, Tyler the kind of Olympics we expect to have and Clary, Matt Grevers, Cullen Jones and Natalie want to have.” That warning hit home loud and Coughlin. clear on Saturday when Australia’s Cate In, are a wave of first time Olympians, includ- Campbell powered to a world record in the 100 ing Maya DiRado who qualified in three events. metres freestyle at the Brisbane Grand Prix. “Going forward we are going to have to step up OMAHA: In this Saturday, July 2, 2016 file photo, Jay Litherland, from left, Kevin to a new level and we will see some new faces BREAKOUT OLYMPIC STARS Litherland and Mick Litherland speak to reporters at the US Olympic swimming trials step up at the top,” said Bob Bowman, Phelps’ Even Phelps, heading for his fifth Olympics, in Omaha, Neb. The Litherlands left everyone seeing triple at the US Olympic swim- coach who will also be in charge to the U.S. acknowledged times will have to improve dra- ming trials. Jay, Kevin and Mick are 20-year-old triplets who competed in Omaha men’s team in Rio. matically between now and the opening of the over the past week. While Jay was the only one to earn a spot in Rio, they’ll all be “We have our tried-and-true guys and I think Rio Games on Aug. 5 if he is to add to his haul of there in spirit. — AP with Michael and Ryan we’re going to be able to 18 gold medals. count on them but it’s going to be very exciting “I think it’s going to take a lot faster times,” to have a new group of guys step up ... and kind said Phelps after winning the 200 medley. “There of take us into the next era of swimming.” are always fast times that are swam throughout Triplets make their Swimmers arrived in Omaha declaring the the world. “I do understand that I have to swim pressure of the U.S. trials was far greater than faster to have a chance to win the gold medal; I mark at US swim trials anything they face at an Olympics but mon- do know that.” Having qualified in the 100 and OMAHA: Michael Phelps of the United States strous expectations will weigh heavily in Rio 200 fly and 200 medley and a candidate for the celebrates during Day Eight of the 2016 US where the stage is bigger, the spotlight brighter relays, Phelps, already the most decorated Olympic Team Swimming Trials at OMAHA: So much for a double take. The MOTIVATION and the competition tougher. Olympian of all-time, will expect to add to his CenturyLink Center on Sunday in Omaha, Litherlands left everyone seeing triple at For Kevin and Mick, Jay’s success has With thumping rock music, pyrotechnics, staggering medal haul. Nebraska. — AFP the US Olympic swimming trials. Jay, Kevin provided plenty of motivation. “Yeah, flaming geysers and capacity crowds of over For the last three Summer Games, Phelps has and Mick are 20-year-old triplets who com- there’s definitely a little jealousy,” Kevin 14,000 filling the CenturyLink center for every shouldered plenty of the load but now 31 and a rare gold medal hat-trick in the 200, 400 and peted in Omaha over the past week.