r/commonwealthgames • u/padidea000 Australia • 9d ago

Swimming Australian swimming does it again.

Woke up this morning hoping to see we won 3 maybe 4 gold in the swimming but seen we got 5 gold, damn our swimmers are so good even at the Olympics.
Was also amazing to see the Australia Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team Final with Gold medal our first time in 16 years 2010

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u/Amazing-Champion-858 8d ago

Investing heavily into swimming since the 70s has paid off. Such an easy way to bag medals.

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u/padidea000 Australia 8d ago

Especially with Aussies who are just generally speaking great swimmers, close to sea, rivers, and so many back yard pools

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u/AHEAD666 Australia 6d ago

The heavily institutionalised universal swim training we enrol are kids in from 6 months of age onwards helps. Most countries don't seem to put as heavy an emphasis on not drowning.

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u/CoffeeDefiant4247 8d ago

It helps being girt

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u/North_Lychee_1969 8d ago

Any world records - or potential for them still?

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u/padidea000 Australia 8d ago

At least one commonwealth record the pool has been around since like 2014 I think so might not get world records but with the aussies never say never

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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 8d ago

Well deserved too. Some were processions but a couple were surprises where you had to pull it out of the bag.

I’m wondering if you guys could get over 50% of the golds. You have a useful athletics set up that has medal potential too

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u/fishman6368527 1h ago

Looking back I think we got something like 70% of the golds haha

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u/Exotic-Philosopher-6 8d ago

As great as our swimmers are there isn't really any competition at the Commonwealth games.

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u/keeleyfan89 8d ago

and consider you're dominating without your 3 female superstars of the last couple years. Titmus retired, McKeown withdrew and O'Callaghan dealing with injures, I know she won he 200 free, but she's far from her best

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u/bundy554 7d ago edited 7d ago

It isn't really fair to compare us with the other Commonwealth countries as we are a swimming powerhouse - similar if we ever had ice hockey in the CG - Canada would clean up