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Australia, queens of the pool. Their 4x200m freestyle relay team was bookended by the new Olympic 200m champion Mollie O’Callaghan and 400m champion Ariarne Titmus. Between them, the 400m short course world champion Lani Pallister and the six-time relay world champion Brianna Throssell kept up the momentum, and given all that, perhaps the most remarkable part of this race was that it actually was a race, with USA and China finishing only a couple of body lengths back.
