Gretchen Walsh on 100 Fly WR: "I was probably the most shocked out of the people I know"

Last night in the first event of the 2024 US Olympic Trials, Gretchen Walsh shocked swimming by breaking an 8-year-old world record in the 100 butterfly, touching in 55.18. Walsh might have shocked herself the most.
Read more about Walsh's world record here:
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[@H.J.L]

The fact that it has a chance to go down again tonight

[@LaurieLawrenceCoach]

Wonderful effort!
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[@LaurieLawrenceCoach]

On the final

[@fire--fly]

Awesome! She’s a real woman, right?

[@Cosmo-ms2hd]

Yeah. I checked.

[@rigysx3409]

@@Cosmo-ms2hd🤣💀

[@zippo563]

I'm happy, but not exactly surprised. I could also see her go a :57 in the 1back.

[@cchan4739]

how juiced up is she to have dropped her PB by that much in that span of time? highly sus........

[@marvelboi6258]

Called hard work

[@MrVpassenheim]

You wouldn't say that if you knew how fast she already was at NCAAs. She way 47.63 in the 100fly sc yards. She was already 56 low last year.

[@derekm1918]

You doubters are so funny 😂 America is THE harshest on their athletes for doping and any other type of drug use 🤣

[@vistsends7599]

Do you not know how swimmers her level go after their races?

[@Slowhand871]

Must be a Chinese bot boy. It’s the Russians and cheating Chinese that are the juiciest.