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Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Natalie Coughlin — a formidable force of nature
Natalie Coughlin took to swimming like fish to water.
She started swimming even before she started to talk — when she was 10 months old, to be exact. Her sentiment with water proceeds at 33 years old, however she has neglected to make it to Rio. Her Olympic profession could in this manner well be over.
However, what a vocation it has been! She has won 12 Olympic decorations; no female swimmer has won more, and just individual Americans Jenny Thomson and Dara Torres have the same number of. Six of those came at Beijing 2008, where she turned into the primary lady swimmer ever to hold the 100m backstroke.
She ruled over the 200m backstroke for somewhere in the range of six years, in the wake of turning into the primary lady to break the moment obstruction, in 2002 as a 19-year-old.
Two years prior, she had just about stopped swimming however. A shoulder harm had smashed her fantasies about the Sydney Olympics, that as well subsequent to turning into the principal ever swimmer to fit the bill for the United States Nationals in each of the 14 occasions in 1998.
Coughlin compensated for that by winning five decorations in 2004 in Athens, incorporating gold in the 100m backstroke and the 4x200m free-form transfer.
At London, she finished her Olympic dozen, with a bronze in the 4x100m free-form hand-off.
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