lane number four all hail the queen Jessica Long - family back in Abingdon Maryland
her parents Beth and Steve, her husband Lucas
Let's see what she can do in her final event. She has made this walk so many times and that
is definitely game face. Yep, she's ready to leave it all in the pool she's got a towel
on the block to protect her legs; she's fast off the start but she's really fast into the finish.
There you see the world and paralympic records
stood since 14 and 16 respectively will they fall here already 66 world records
over 10 days of competition 130 paralympic records as jessica long
looks for more. She looks for her 29th paralympic medal in this race
three claps and she's ready to go; it's Long in lane number four
fast off the block but not the fastest underwater but she's gonna make up time ishalova now in lane
number five has the early lead with a quick start here comes the black cap of jessica long gaining
already she swings with such ferocity every single stroke you can tell how bad she wants this
pulls even and ned says goodbye if I'm even I'm leavin' and there goes jessica long on the first
50 out of lane number four goes right past the 16 year old rpc athlete as she makes the turn
no one on either side of her jessica long is not messing around she is so competitive she does not
like to lose she even wants to fold laundry faster than her husband lucas and she wants to go faster
than she ever has before in this race back in abington maryland parents watching on jessica long
is she gonna flirt with that world record just off to her right it's ishalova here we go jessica
long looking for number 29 in the pool the queen of the pool here in tokyo just few meters to go
and it will be jessica long out of baltimore maryland claiming another gold
good job
they've seen it so many times before 29 times as she claimed a paralympic medal and here she is
picking up her sixth medal in tokyo unbelievable one medal for every year she's been alive
such great sportsmanship as always you know for all of these other athletes swimming in the pool
with jessica long this is what they've thought about their whole careers you know there's not
a paralympic swimmer who doesn't think about what if i race jessica long and you think back she's
been at this for 17 years competing at the highest level she debuted in athens at the age of 12 and
here she is at the young age of 29 a five-time paralympian now with 29 medals to her credit
and three gold medals now at these tokyo games just one gold medal and it was hard earned for
her in rio so she has really put in so much work over the past five years to make this possible
and her swimming the butterfly for this to be on the last day for her i'm sure she was pleased
with this event set up because this strokes to come so naturally to her just watch her swim
i mean the way she uses her legs to keep her hips just toward the surface but really drives
this stroke with her arms unbelievable you just see how strong she is every single stroke
and at that point the race was pretty much over and she knew that too but she still wanted to go
as fast as possible she's like a metronome she does not slow down credit to ishalova who made it
a pretty good race towards the end but just could not track down the queen jessica long now with 15
gold medals in the pool at the paralympic games that look of relief when she touches first
a lot of team usa swimmers in the stands cheering her on tonight
and she has inspired so many other swimmers across so many other nations who have
got into the sport because jessica long led the way there it is 109.87
jessica long now with 29 paralympic medals 15 of them gold as she wins the 100 fly