Summer McIntosh Rewrote ‘Bruce Almighty’ Screenplay at Canadian Trials

Who knows what Federica Pellegrini was doing tonight, around half past midnight. At that time, 18.30 in Toronto, Canada, the world record in the 200m freestyle in the long course – which also stands proudly in her bio on her Instagram – risked falling. At the halfway mark Summer McIntosh led by two hundredths of a second. Then in the second hundred meters, those in which Federica Pellegrini began and often completed her comebacks, Summer McIntosh she swam a little slower and reached 1’53”91, the new youth world record, the fifth best performance ever in the 200m freestyle. Federica Pellegrini’s record is 1’52”98. It is the longest-lasting world record in women’s swimming, one of the two (the other is that of the Chinese Liu Zige in the 200m butterfly) that still stands from the era of polyurethane costumes, the “costumes” that in the two-year period 2008-2009 almost they allowed athletes to float while minimizing resistance in the water. It’s been printed in the history books since July 29, 2009. It will probably be deleted soon.