Last night’s Friday night in the United States was, of course, Saturday morning in Tokyo — that’s just how time works.
And on the night (morning?) Caeleb Dressel faced one of his most difficult stretches of just over an hour as an elite swimmer ever — that’s just how the 2020 Olympics swim program works.
But coming through it with stellar swims in three events that won one gold medal, established him as the favorite for another, and made him the sympathetic loser in a doomed effort in the third? That’s just how Dressel, king of the water, works.