There was a time late last spring when the pools were dry, the natatoriums were closed and the places to train were few and far between. So former Indiana star Lilly King settled for the next best option.
A pond.
“I did not like (that),” she said recently.
Eventually, she found a more suitable setting at a reopened pool in Martinsville, Ind. before IU’s athletics campus became available for use later during the summer of 2020. A year later and King’s training, however choppy and improvised, served its purpose. She’s once again a member of Team USA, and after earning two gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, King is focused on authoring more memorable performances during the coming days in Tokyo.