{"id":386639,"date":"2019-08-02T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=386639"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:11:47","slug":"madisyn-cox-finally-has-real-redemption-with-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/madisyn-cox-finally-has-real-redemption-with-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Madisyn Cox Finally Has Real Redemption With National Title (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Madisyn Cox<\/strong> was not at nationals.<\/p>\n

She was hundreds of miles away still trying to wrap her head around why she wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Cox was suspended her positive test for the banned substance trimetazidine<\/a>\u00a0on March 28, 2018 \u2014 a suspension that would eventually be overturned<\/a> in August of 2018.<\/p>\n

But it was too late.<\/p>\n

Too late to send her back to nationals. Too late for her to have a shot at making the world championship team. Too late for redemption.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps too early for redemption.<\/p>\n

Cox earned a great deal of redemption on Thursday in her return to nationals, claiming the 200-meter breaststroke title<\/a> at the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships in Palo Alto, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means the world. It feels good to have that hard work finally pay off,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIt was more for the people who got me here. I am really proud of doing it for them. I was worried about (crumbling after the positive test). You never know how adversity is going to affect you. I was able to grow from it, learn from it, dig deeper because of it and be a stronger version of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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