Australian Mollie O’Callaghan, who owns the quickest occasions of the 12 months in each the 100 and 200 metres freestyle, has injured her knee a number of weeks out from the beginning of the world championships in Japan. The teenager, who received the 100m freestyle finally 12 months’s championships in Budapest, “tweaked” her kneecap whereas stretching and has been placed on a modified coaching programme, Australia coach Rohan Taylor mentioned.

“It’s all looking good for being at worlds, and there’s nothing saying she’s not going to be there,” Taylor advised The Australian newspaper. “She was in the water doing her thing, and they’re just making sure she doesn’t aggravate it again. We’ve got a month till the racing starts, so we’re pretty hopeful that she’ll be up and fine without any issues. “At this level there is not any want to consider something however her simply getting higher and there is not any actual points that I can see or that I’m listening to. I believe it is only a tweak, a little bit of a scare and simply must be managed. But there’s nothing saying she will not be at worlds.”

The swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka begins on July 23. O’Callaghan underlined her quality at this month’s Australian trials when she upset Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus to win the 200 in one minute 53.83 seconds, then edged Tokyo gold medallist Emma McKeon to win the 100 in 52.48 seconds.

Taylor said O’Callaghan, who already owns two Olympic and two World Championship relay gold medals at the age of 19, was an integral part of the Australia team. “She’s a really versatile athlete throughout the freestyle and backstroke occasions which is extraordinarily useful to us throughout the relays,” he said.

“We’re lucky to have a lot of our athletes, feminine athletes particularly, which might be like that, so that offers us that energy of relay and depth, and Molly’s a key determine there.”

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