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Paris Olympics 2024 News: Despite Being Bonded by Blood, Swimming Sister Duo Might Become Arch Rivals for Big Night

Published 01/22/2024, 7:31 AM EST

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Australian swimming dutch, Cate Campbell, has used her pre-Olympic training in a scheduled way. After the Tokyo Olympics, the 31-year-old veteran had taken a long gap, spending time in seclusion. However, January last year saw her again pumping for the Olympic trial set in Brisbane in June this year. The Paris Olympics gains a special interest for Cate Campbell, as this will be her last appearance in the event.

So keeping that in mind, this year, she appeared in her first competitive moment in a surreal way. In that familiar tussle, she couldn’t win the 100m free. But in the vicinity, a message was defiant that would set the coming days on fire.

Cate Campbell stunned by her sister ahead of the Olympics 

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It was the South Australia State Open, which saw both Campbell sisters taking guard against each other. Meanwhile, in the 100m free event, Bronte Campbell stayed ahead of elder sister, Cate for 0.11 seconds. Eventually, the result panned out even more multicolored in the post of MR. CARTER on X. The caption expressed, “The 2015 world champion Bronte Campbell won the 100m freestyle in 53.30 ahead of her sister, the 2013 world champion Cate Campbell 53.41 in Adelaide!” The layers in the post framed Bronte Campbell in a usurping mode. On that estimate, the ending lines in the post revealed the next flared-up contest between them. The lines were, “Both aim to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games.”

In that manner, the coming days would see much more swimming conflicts between the sisters. Eventually, both share similar likings while choosing to swim events: 50 free, 100 free, and the relay events. Although Cate Campbell had her share of Olympic success for the umpteenth time. But Bronte had won three times in the relay events in the last two Olympics. Among those, the 4x100m free gold medals had come when Cate was in the same team. Moreover, on all those occasions, their coaches had remained the same. But this time the situation poured out as different. 

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The last run for the glory 

Previously, Simon Cusack used to be the common coach for the Campbell sisters. But ultimately the marvelous coach had joined her Swimming Australia coaching commitment a few years ago. That had forced them to part ways in the practice field. Now on the eve of the Paris Olympics, Cate Campbell moved to Brisbane for those practices, whereas Bronte stayed back in Canberra. But as per the 3x Olympic champion, that won’t matter. 

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Revealing the reason to worldaquatics.com last year, Cate added, “It will definitely be my last Australian Olympic Trials and I am pretty sure this will be her last Australian trials as well.” Now, coming to the situation, Bronte seemed to have the upper hand on her vaunted elder sister.

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Prasun Chakrabarty

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Hello there! I am Prasun Chakrabarty, an Olympics sports writer at EssentiallySports. Being an adrenaline junkie, I take a keen interest in creating insights about various avenues of the sporting realm. As an ardent swimming enthusiast, I take inspiration from the Baltimore Bullet Michael Phelps and love to create insights on various nooks and crannies around the turquoise turf.
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BHUJAYA RAY CHOWDHURY