and the friends and family back in Clarksville Georgia
ready to cheer on McKenzie calling the twenty four year
old first of
thank
the women's quarter meter freestyle S. seven eight
of the kids
got to be the clear favorite this one as we get a good look
at mackenzie and what she's able to do there you see
the world and Paralympic Records so mackenzie Coleman is only about
six seconds off of those world in Paralympic Records and she's
only
zero OO one second off the American record
held by Mallory recommend
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walked watching that flexible Georgia already accepted
to Rutgers law you could say she's going places
absolutely and we're going to see her go
likely in this four hundred freestyle she's the heavy
favorite based on her C. times
the company doesn't have the best start but as we talked
about not the show in the four hundred freestyle
%HESITATION advantage here just like we saw with have
an awesome is for consistency and her ability to accelerate in
the end of the race
find
other Americans as they don the black cats for finals
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see how he should she remains I know you've talked to her you
could converse with social she is amped up for this race
absolutely she said that
for this race she's going to put on her fierce competitor
base she is coming out here to get after it she feels good and
she's going for it
really impressive here we have taught a lot of really fast
swimmers and we're seeing so much for them already
Kohli looking really strong and she's going into the wall for
the first one hundred
so if you're coaching the chance at this point after
first one hundred what do you see any what do you like so
I love that she's picking up her tempo already it's very
aggressive but I know how much training she's put into this
she swam in a pool in her garage
that's how dedicated she is to this
in talking with her coach this morning
since this event was
recta final there's only eight swimmers in the event she
didn't have a swim in the prelims so
what was the
she could
see
a
to get her mind off her body in the competition mindset
right now in
that'll be Tallien swimmer Julia Terzi but the Americans
looking so good right now city
two three and four
Julia Gaffney in lane three there
you know she wasn't able to podium in her two hundred IM
because the disqualification so I expect that she's out here
looking to really have another chance and it looks like it's
the kids
Diggs in and it's starting to close in on the Italian swimmer
to her left I expect that she's going to continue this really
pushing the pace
and then we're really going to see her accelerate in the
the last seventy five meters of this race look at the
stroke difference between the American and Italian
the color is so rapid
the Italian loose
just kind of work pleased to but now the kids
only pulls out just slightly ahead of the Italian swimmer
this is where it starts to hurt
and this is where the training pays off the Americans going one
three and four mackenzie Coleman in a tie
with
Italy Diggs
the
last seventy five meters there you see the differences
in the black
in the
reading to her left to get it I
even more
tension is
Diggs
fifty meters to go
the
position
but Diggs
just
please
number three this is all
Turkey trying to reel back in do you think celebrating that
you need to put her head down and get to the mall
and in the final stretch he is most definitely
for the Paralympic
American
how about that
Georgia
just one
and when we look at the swim for Colin she
needs to see for a little bit and I think she knew that that
was going to be the strategy going in
she had so much confidence in her training pattern
knowing that her teammate and training partner Julie Gaffney
pushing her to her other side she really was able to
accelerate in that last one hundred metres and that's what
makes the difference if you were thinking about getting
the book breaking free that she
authored you definitely want to get it now because she
has put a gold medal on that resume
and what a performance I think it's the patients it's not
panicking and she would did that last one fifty to really
put the hammer down absolutely and how about those times for
Gaffney in Latin burger both about two second time drops
from their qualifying time
these are excited for
Georgia bulldog football but not this time it's mackenzie
call that raises the roof the Clarksville and she claims
the gold medal in the women's four hundred meter freestyle in
the S. seven classification
Julia Turkey with a great swim for illegal take the silver
and Julia Gaffney will be on the podium
with a bronze medal for team USA