TOKYO — Adam Krikorian didn’t want to talk about the threepeat. Or, at least, he didn’t want to use that word. He’d just completed it here at the Tatsumi Water Polo Center. He’d jumped into a pool, fully clothed, after the U.S. women’s water polo team he coaches won its third straight Olympic gold.
But that, he said, shouldn’t be the story. “This is the first one for that team,” he said. “Every team is different.”
His point was well taken. Only two of the 13 players who joined him in celebration had been part of a similar one in 2012.