This was the day the platform we are on had an outage that lasted about 20 hours and meant we had to catch up with two days of coverage at once. So, here is the coverage we did manage, minus the daily medals table and records, which we'll include later in our comprehensive history file for paid subscribers down the line.

Thanks for your understanding.

SOS - Day 5 Coverage

M200 Medley: Bowman’s Boys Come Thundering Home - Marchand, Casas, Kos

... falling asleep in 30 minutes? Impossible. After the race, I missed the train - I just kept thinking about everything. I replay the race in my head, go over the conversations I had with my family, the coaches, and all that. It’s like that every time.” - Léon Marchand

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

W200 Butterfly: McIntosh Delivers The Best ‘Imperfect’ 200 ’Fly Swim In History For Her Third Gold - 2:01.99

Summer McIntosh’s arrow having missed its WR target today, she fired an expletive into the bubbles beneath her breath before hooking her arms over the lane line and covering her face with her hands. Fuel to the fire

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

M100 Free: Popovici Pans For Gold In 46.5 For First 50-100 Double Double

“I had been thinking about the Olympics every day since I was 10, no exaggeration But once I did that, I came to the realisation that nothing changes, my life doesn’t change.” - David Popovici on Olympic obsession

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

W4x200Free: O’Callaghan Matches Thorpe Tally On Latest Dolphins Triumph

Without the profanities, I was pretty much was saying to Mollie ‘Do you know who you are?’ And I think when you’ve had the former world record, and you’ve won the world championship the day before going in. Even in my mind, as soon as Mollie dives in, I know we’ve won it” - Lani Pallister

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord