{"id":13722,"date":"2012-07-27T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-27T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T23:07:26","slug":"Swimmers-Lia-Neal-and-Natalie-Coughlin-both-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13722","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers Lia Neal and Natalie Coughlin both medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natalie Coughlin is a perfect 12 for 12 in Olympic races. Only this time, she earned a medal without swimming in the final, with some help from a Brooklyn teenager making her Olympic debut.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coughlin tied Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres for most career medals by an American woman<\/strong> with 12 when the United States won a bronze in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

“I really have no idea what to think of it so far,” Coughlin said. “I’ll have to let that one sit and I’ll have to take it all in. I’m very proud of it, but I’ve never been on a morning relay before.”<\/p>\n

She swam a leg in the preliminaries, helping the U.S. qualify second-fastest.<\/strong> But for the evening final, the Americans went with teenager Missy Franklin and Jessica Hardy, and brought back Brooklyn’s Lia Neal and another Olympic rookie, Allison Schmitt, leaving Coughlin to play cheerleader.<\/p>\n

They finished in 3 minutes, 34.24 seconds, an American record.<\/p>\n

“I was a little bit disappointed just because I tend to get better as the meet progresses,” Coughlin said, “but I don’t envy the coaches, what they had to go through this morning. They really weighed the decision and I think they made a good one.”<\/p>\n

Coughlin, whose six medals in Beijing were the most by an American woman at one Olympics, didn’t qualify for an individual event in London.<\/strong> She finished sixth in the 100 free at the U.S. trials to put herself in the relay mix.<\/p>\n

U.S. women’s coach Teri McKeever, who is also Coughlin’s personal coach at California, considered each swimmer’s split times and their relay exchanges in deciding to leave Coughlin out.<\/p>\n

Lia Neal (far left) said she was aware that Coughlin needed one more medal to tie Thompson and Torres.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’m just so happy we all chipped in to help Natalie achieve this accomplishment,” she said. “She’s such a great teacher. I’ve learned quite a lot from her.”<\/p>\n

Natalie Coughlin is half Filipina and Lia Neal is half Chinese.<\/strong><\/p>\n

via nbc.com<\/a>
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