By David Rieder.
Kicking off this afternoon’s prelims at the Olympic Aquatic Center will be swimming’s glamor event, with perhaps the most coveted gold medal in the pool on the line. Not to mention the fact that the men’s 100 free is typically one of the most hotly-contested events of the Olympic Games.
Go back to 1996, when Alexander Popov had to hold off a young Gary Hall Jr. and the first-ever field comprised entirely of sub-50 second swimmers. Then, in two of the next three Olympics, swimmers set world records earlier in the Games in the 100 free but fell short when it counted most in the final.
In 2012, James Magnussen entered as the big gold medal favorite, but he could not follow through on the hype, losing his grip on the race in the last few strokes as the USA’s Nathan Adrian snuck in to take gold by one one-hundredth of a second.
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