Walsh tops Douglass' 50m freestyle world record

Gretchen Walsh broke the women's fifty-meter freestyle world record on Sunday, according to ESPN. The achievement is striking because her training partner Kate Douglass had set the previous record just nine days earlier—a remarkable back-and-forth that underscores how competitive elite sprint swimming has become.

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