Missy Franklin is Coming Back?Then What?

Missy Franklin is Coming Back—Then What?
 
Since January, when Missy Franklin revealed that she had moved to Athens, Ga., to train and to finish her undergraduate degree, she has kept mostly quiet. She hasn’t been seen at any meets, and she still hasn’t raced since the Olympics in Rio, when she flamed out of both her individual races, the 200 free and 200 back, in the semi-finals and had no answers for what had gone so wrong.
 
So what exactly has Franklin been up to these past four months? Well, she has been in school, and she’s been training.
Friday afternoon with the Georgia Bulldogs was just a normal practice, a “shut-up-and-swim” short course workout with kicking and pulling sets between a pair of tougher long course workouts, IM on Friday morning and racing Saturday morning.
 
One day after her 23rd birthday, Franklin was wearing a black “G” cap as she shared a lane with Georgia junior sprinter . One lane over were a pair of Franklin’s U.S. Olympic teammates, Hali Flickinger and Chase Kalisz.