MELBOURNE : Australia's Kaylee McKeown has already set world records and bagged four Olympic medals but the Queensland juggernaut's best is yet to come, says five-times world champion Matt Welsh. After snatching the 200m backstroke world record in March, 21-year-old McKeown has been in ominous form in the
MELBOURNE : Australia's Kaylee McKeown has already set world records and bagged four Olympic medals but the Queensland juggernaut's best is yet to come, says five-times world champion Matt Welsh.
Welsh, who won a backstroke title at the 2001 world championships, was impressed by McKeown at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, seeing a rising talent who could one day be counted among the greats of Australian swimming."She's mentally and physically strong. Just walking on the pool deck you can see the strength in shoulders and arms."We haven't seen the best from her yet but we've seen incredible things already.
Australia's swim team will use Fukuoka as a yardstick to measure progress in the lead-up to next year's Paris Olympics.
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