U.S. swimmer McKenzie Coan defends 400m free S7 gold medal | Tokyo 2020 Paralympics | NBC Sports

and the friends and family back in Clarksville Georgia ready to cheer on McKenzie calling the twenty four year old first of thank the women's quarter meter freestyle S. seven eight of the kids got to be the clear favorite this one as we get a good look at mackenzie and what she's able to do there you see the world and Paralympic Records so mackenzie Coleman is only about six seconds off of those world in Paralympic Records and she's only zero OO one second off the American record held by Mallory recommend the parents market to resell walked watching that flexible Georgia already accepted to Rutgers law you could say she's going places absolutely and we're going to see her go likely in this four hundred freestyle she's the heavy favorite based on her C. times the company doesn't have the best start but as we talked about not the show in the four hundred freestyle %HESITATION advantage here just like we saw with have an awesome is for consistency and her ability to accelerate in the end of the race find other Americans as they don the black cats for finals %HESITATION shot see how he should she remains I know you've talked to her you could converse with social she is amped up for this race absolutely she said that for this race she's going to put on her fierce competitor base she is coming out here to get after it she feels good and she's going for it really impressive here we have taught a lot of really fast swimmers and we're seeing so much for them already Kohli looking really strong and she's going into the wall for the first one hundred so if you're coaching the chance at this point after first one hundred what do you see any what do you like so I love that she's picking up her tempo already it's very aggressive but I know how much training she's put into this she swam in a pool in her garage that's how dedicated she is to this in talking with her coach this morning since this event was recta final there's only eight swimmers in the event she didn't have a swim in the prelims so what was the she could see a to get her mind off her body in the competition mindset right now in that'll be Tallien swimmer Julia Terzi but the Americans looking so good right now city two three and four Julia Gaffney in lane three there you know she wasn't able to podium in her two hundred IM because the disqualification so I expect that she's out here looking to really have another chance and it looks like it's the kids Diggs in and it's starting to close in on the Italian swimmer to her left I expect that she's going to continue this really pushing the pace and then we're really going to see her accelerate in the the last seventy five meters of this race look at the stroke difference between the American and Italian the color is so rapid the Italian loose just kind of work pleased to but now the kids only pulls out just slightly ahead of the Italian swimmer this is where it starts to hurt and this is where the training pays off the Americans going one three and four mackenzie Coleman in a tie with Italy Diggs the last seventy five meters there you see the differences in the black in the reading to her left to get it I even more tension is Diggs Diggs fifty meters to go the position but Diggs just please number three this is all Turkey trying to reel back in do you think celebrating that you need to put her head down and get to the mall and in the final stretch he is most definitely for the Paralympic American how about that Georgia just one and when we look at the swim for Colin she needs to see for a little bit and I think she knew that that was going to be the strategy going in she had so much confidence in her training pattern knowing that her teammate and training partner Julie Gaffney pushing her to her other side she really was able to accelerate in that last one hundred metres and that's what makes the difference if you were thinking about getting the book breaking free that she authored you definitely want to get it now because she has put a gold medal on that resume and what a performance I think it's the patients it's not panicking and she would did that last one fifty to really put the hammer down absolutely and how about those times for Gaffney in Latin burger both about two second time drops from their qualifying time these are excited for Georgia bulldog football but not this time it's mackenzie call that raises the roof the Clarksville and she claims the gold medal in the women's four hundred meter freestyle in the S. seven classification Julia Turkey with a great swim for illegal take the silver and Julia Gaffney will be on the podium with a bronze medal for team USA