TOKYO – A humble Emma McKeon Monday downplayed her remarkable feats at the Tokyo Olympics despite winning an unsurpassed seven swimming medals to join the all-time greats.
The 27-year-old Australian was the undisputed queen in the Tokyo pool, with her medal haul — four gold and three bronze — surpassing the six won by East German Kristin Otto (1952) and American Natalie Coughlin (2008).
In all, she swam 13 races in nine days and said it “still hasn’t really sunk in yet”.
“I feel just like everyone else up here, we have done an amazing job,” she said at a press conference alongside fellow gold medallists including Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown and Cate Campbell.
“The whole team has done…
