Donald Miralle
There was a time, after the divorce, when Katinka Hosszu had heard enough. She'd heard all the variations of the same question, the same doubt: Could the famed Iron Lady of swimming still be a dominant force without her volatile, hard-driving husband and coach, Shane Tusup?
"I wanted to scream, 'I know what I'm doing!'" she says. "I wasn't scared at all. I was confident. As a woman, it is sometimes a bit different than [it is] for male athletes. Sometimes the coaches get more credit than the athletes."
Tusup had certainly put himself out there as the driving force behind Hosszu, the world-record holder in both the 200- and 400-meter individual medleys and a three-time Olympic gold medalist representing Hungary.