{"id":592950,"date":"2024-07-29T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=592950"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:00:26","slug":"paris-olympics-dressed-for-success-nic-fink-relishes-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-dressed-for-success-nic-fink-relishes-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: Dressed for Success, Nic Fink Relishes Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris Olympics: Dressed for Success, Nic Fink Relishes Silver<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nic Fink<\/strong> still has the sweatsuit from the Tokyo Olympics. It\u2019s gotten one less use than he would\u2019ve desired.<\/p>\n

When Fink qualified for his first Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, he carried medal expectations in the 200 breaststroke in his bag to Japan. They were tucked away with the set of pristine, white Nike sweats, the ones he would wear on the medal stand if given the chance.<\/p>\n

Those hopes were dashed with a fifth-place finish in his lone event, his time of 2:07.93 eight tenths off the podium. But they were a reminder for Sunday night, three years later and a continent away, of what real disappointment looked like, in the face of questions about 0.02 seconds separating his silver medal from gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Tokyo, I brought my podium sweats and I didn\u2019t get a chance to wear them,\u201d Fink said. \u201cThat\u2019s not a fun feeling in this sport. To place at all and to share medals, it\u2019s all great. It doesn\u2019t matter what medal I got and who I\u2019m sharing it with, as long as I get to be up on the podium and getting hardware for the USA, it\u2019s an unbelievable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n