Vice World Champion Simon Bucher misses the final in tenth place

Ultimately, it was 27 hundredths too many for the hoped-for Olympic final over 100 meters butterfly. Tyrolean Simon Bucher, who swims for ASV Linz and is the current vice world champion over this distance, came in “only” tenth in a time of 51.35 seconds.

“I can’t complain about that. Of course I’m a little disappointed, I put a lot of pressure on myself,” said the 24-year-old. But he will be allowed to go to the finals this evening as the second reserve. Before that (12.40 p.m.), Bucher will be competing in the 4 x 100 m individual medley heats with Bernhard Reitshammer, Valentin Bayer and Heiko Gigler.

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On Friday morning, Lena Kreundl left the pool of the Arena La Defense, which was sold out with 17,000 visitors, in 24th place in the 200-meter individual medley preliminary competitions (2:15.04 minutes). “For me, a circle has come full circle,” said the 26-year-old with tears in her eyes. Even with a personal best, the 3.08-second place in the semifinals would have been out of reach for the Steyr native. But Kreundl had hoped for a better time.

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Kreundl finished 24th in the 200 meter individual medley.
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“Twelve years ago, my international career began with the European Short Course Championships in France, and now I’m allowed to swim in the Olympics again, again in France.” The summarizing nature of her words was unmistakable: “I swam with the attitude that this could be the last race of my career.”

She does not yet know whether Kreundl will stay for a few more months and thus the upcoming short course season. That also depends on a new training solution. She cleared out her apartment in Uster (Sui), where she had been training since autumn 2019, two weeks ago. She is returning to Austria, partly because she lost her coach there. “I will almost certainly start the job full-time from September,” said the trained police officer.