Five years ago a young British medley swimmer by the name of Siobhan Marie O’Connor walked onto the pool deck at the World Championships in Shanghai to make her senior international debut. 14th in the 200IM heats and she was off and running, and while her journey that year ended in the semi-finals, it was clear that this was a swimmer who belonged on this stage, having taken it all in her stride.

Adam Peaty will not need to better his 100m breaststroke World Record to win gold in Rio according to predictions made by German swimming coach and statistician Joshua Neuloh. He has pulled together his quadrennial Swimnex summary of predicted time standards at the Olympic Games which show a time of 58.14 being enough for Gold on 7th August.

As he touched the wall at the end of the dogfight that was the 200m freestyle at British trials, the results on the board were clear for Robbie Renwick. He’d confirmed his place in Rio as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay and as such he would be on the plane to the Olympics for the third time.