Caeleb Dressel finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo Olympics with two more dazzling swims. The guy who dreads all the attention won’t be able to escape it now. The 24-year-old Floridian captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games on Sunday, while Australia’s Emma McKeon put her own remarkable stamp on the record book with a staggering haul of hardware.
McKeon won two more golds and became the first female swimmer — and second woman in any sport — to claim seven medals at one Olympics. Four of them were gold, the other three bronze. Dressel was perfect in the events he had a chance in, capping off his stunning week in the final race at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre by putting the Americans ahead to stay in the 4×100 medley relay on their way to a world record.
“I’m proud of myself. I feel like I reached what my potential was here at these games,” Dressel said. “It was just really fun racing.” He doesn’t plan to savor his triumph for long — which is right on par for a guy who said a day earlier “the sport was a lot more fun when no one knew my name.”
