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30. Olympic training in the neighbor’s pool

Olympic hopeful and USA Swimming National Team member Phoebe Bacon (front) trains with her brother Finn Bacon amid the coronavirus pandemic at a family friend’s covered, 15-meter pool on Apr. 28, 2020, in Potomac, Maryland. Phoebe Bacon, a high school senior and PanAmerican gold medalist, qualified for the U.S. Olympic swimming trials and is using the small-sized pool to continue to train in the water after COVID-19 closed pools. The U.S. trials and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been postponed due the coronavirus, but that hasn’t deterred athletes like Bacon from finding non-traditional ways of training.

Another powerful athlete I was able to capture during quarantine, was Olympic hopeful and USA Swimming National Team Member Phoebe Bacon. When the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed, the PanAmerican gold medalist stayed in her lane. With major swimming events and local pools shutdown, Phoebe was able to adapt. She continued to train with her younger brother, Finn, at a family friend’s covered 15-meter pool. By comparison, an Olympic sized pool is 50-meters long! Her dedication and drive will be an iconic moment in sports to look back on, with the stark contrast of training with a rubber ducky to racing the world’s best athletes and chasing gold in 2021.

— Patrick Smith