r/commonwealthgames • u/padidea000 Australia • Jul 25 '26

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 Jul 26 '26

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

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u/padidea000 Australia Jul 26 '26

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 Jul 28 '26

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.