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Swimming with the Sea Lions in an Olympic Year

By Victoria Klassen exceptional,” said Frédéric
Dumoulin.

Frédéric also admired the
work ethic of Michael Phelps,
an American swimmer who
is known for being the most
decorated Olympian with 28
medals.

“Five years and he never
ith 2024 being a missed a practice, no matter
Wsummer Olympic how he felt. Respect for that

year, the Cornwall Sea Lions commitment,” said Frédéric.
Swim Club’s athletes are
“I want to be the Canadian
getting excited to watch their
version of Michael Phelps,”
favourite swimmers on the shared Sea Lions swimmer, Photo Submitted
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big stage.
Zach Millward.
The swimmers chatted with Another Canadian favourite
Sports Energy News about was Audrey Lacroix, the
which Olympic swimmers
longest-standing member of
they admired.
the Canadian national swim
Summer Macintosh was a team. She’s known for her
favourite amongst the Sea butterfly.
Lions swimmers. Summer is “She’s inspiring because
a seventeen-year-old Team
she’s small, but mighty,”
Canada swimmer who will be
shared Abby Chadwick.
making her second Olympic
appearance. Summer made Sea Lions swimmer, Adele

her Olympic debut at fourteen Van Loon, had a few other
years old. favourite swimmers. They
include Maggie MacNeil,
“I thought it was cool because
who is from her mother’s
she was so young when she hometown of London, and
went to the Olympics,” Abi Cody Miller, who posts funny
Marsolais said.
and informative vlogs.
“It is inspiring that she Adele also looks up to
followed her dreams and went
Makayla Sargent, “She’s Photo Submitted
to the Olympics at such a
an IMer from the American
young age,” shared Autumn National team. I went to one
Terry.
of her camps and really felt
“To be so young when she a connection. She has a great
held the world record in 400m message of how to train and
freestyle—only sixteen— how to find joy in swimming.”