Room for much more

DRIPPING wet from his fastest 100m freestyle, Kyle Chalmers makes a stunning admission: he doesn’t feel entirely world-class just yet.

“My skills are still things that are lacking,” Chalmers said after his 100m freestyle personal best of 47.48 at the Australian titles. “And I know if I can drop those 0.1 of a second, everything adds up.”

Chalmers now obsesses over those fractions.

“I know that my skills are coming, it’s just about practising it every time I do a turn in training,” he said.

“We do hundreds of them a day and you can practise bad skills pretty easily with the amount we do. So it’s practising those right things.”