Gretchen Walsh missed a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle by just a hundredth of a second at the 2024 Olympics.
The smallest of margins can have the largest of impacts at the Olympics.
While the United States ultimately edged Australia in gold medals to close the Olympic swimming competition, it failed to get on the medal stand at all in the women’s 50-meter freestyle on Sunday as Gretchen Walsh finished off the podium by .
