It may not have gone down exactly how she imagined it when she left for Rio, but in the end Kelsi Worrell is returning to Louisville with the title she had always dreamed of attaining: Olympic gold medalist.
Worrell carved her place in Olympic history by being a part of the United States women's 4 x 100 medley relay team. She swam the 100 butterfly in the preliminary race with a time of 56.47 to help the U.S. win the semifinal heat, and then watched as Lilly Ling, Kathleen Baker, Dana Vollmer and Simone Manuel topped the rest of the world in the finals.