PARIS — Team USA swimming star Caeleb Dressel added two gold medals and a silver from the Paris Olympics to his hardware haul, bringing his career total to 10 Olympic medals with nine golds.
But the 27-year-old three-time Olympian acknowledges it wasn’t his best personal performance, finishing sixth in the 50-meter freestyle and, as the world record holder, not advancing to the 100-meter butterfly finals.
He also recognized that Team USA as a whole could have done better after winning just one men’s individual gold medal, thanks to Bobby Finke in the 1,500-meter freestyle, the last individual event of the meet. The American squad as a whole, however, still finished at the top of the swimming medal standings with eight golds and 28 total.
