Friday, August 01, 2025

Another Summer of Summer

We're having ourselves another Summer of Summer.

Canadian teen swimming phenom Summer McIntosh is bringing in the hardware again at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. On winning her third gold medal of the meet, the 200-metre butterfly, she didn't even look that pleased. In fact, she could clearly be seen mouthing "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" (She definitely wasn't saying "Fiddlesticks! Fiddlesticks! Fiddlesticks!") 

The reason? She missed out on breaking another world record by 0.18 of a second, a record set back in 2009 by China's Liu Zige, at a time when the now-banned "supersuits" had just come out, but before they were banned.

That's how good she is: she expects to beat world records, even world records set under dubious circumstances. She's currently on track for five individual gold medals, a feat only ever achieved by the great Michael Phelps.

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