April 7, 2018. Australian swimmer James Magnussen, outside the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, says he rates team-mate Kyle Chalmers’s gold-medal winning 200m freestyle swim “very highly” and he’s in better form in that event than when he won it at the Rio Olympics, though that “doesn’t necessarily translate to the 100m (freestyle)”. Magnussen says he thinks if Chalmers can be dragged out quickly in the first 50 of the 100m freestyle final, “then he should be on for a pretty quick overall time, but if the whole race kind of plays cat-and-mouse and goes out slow, I think he’ll still win but he probably won’t swim as fast as he could if someone drags him out”. (AAP Video/Carol Cho)
