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On Fox Sports activities Australia’s Tokyo Each day podcast, retired Olympic swimmer and silver medallist James Magnussen described McKeon as a “actual swimmer’s swimmer”, referring to the best way she is beloved by her associates and opponents, inside and out of doors the pool.

“She actually has stepped up and delivered on the larger stage and everybody that is aware of Emma is so glad for her as a result of she’s such an unassuming, humble athlete and he or she’s an actual swimmer’s swimmer,” Magnussen mentioned on Tokyo Each day.

“By no means mentioned a nasty phrase about anybody.”

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Understanding her for roughly 15 years, Magnussen says he’s happy with the best way she’s grown as a swimmer and individual.

“I keep in mind when she made her first workforce in 2010, I used to be 18 and he or she would’ve been 15 or 16, and to see her progress to turn into an Olympic gold medallist.

“Actually rewarding for everybody concerned and he or she now tops the household as essentially the most profitable swimmer.

“That’s a very powerful factor. She sits on the head of the desk come Christmas dinner.”

McKeon’s Olympic journey isn’t over but with the gold medallist eyeing a podium spot within the girls’s 50m freestyle, which Emma will enter because the favorite, and the ladies’s 4x100m medley relay.

“If she will be able to medal in these two occasions, she is going to turn into essentially the most profitable Australian Olympian in historical past, overtaking Ian Thorpe and Shane Gould,” Magnussen mentioned, including that it “couldn’t have occurred to a nicer individual”.

Ian Thorpe entered the Olympic area with loads of hype already surrounding his title. Nonetheless, Mckeon’s journey to golden glory has been underneath a lot quieter wraps.

“If Emma walked down the road of most cities in Australia, not many individuals would recognise who she is,” Magnussen mentioned.

“That’s how unassuming she is, but she’s about to supersede Thorpey as our most profitable Olympian.”

Up to now in Tokyo, McKeon has gained gold within the Girls’s 100m freestyle and 4x100m freestyle relay, and a bronze within the Girls’s 100m butterfly and 4x200m freestyle relay.

No matter whether or not she wins one other gold medal or not, Magnussen says the Olympic swimmer has exceeded all expectations throughout her time in Tokyo.

“Everybody in and round Emma, together with the swimming neighborhood as an entire, simply needed to see her win a person gold,” Magnussen mentioned.

“She’s obtained all the opposite medals, she’s had all the opposite achievements, that was actually the final one to tick off so I feel that was achieved in the present day.”