Crooks advances to 50m Finals in Paris Olympics
(CNS): Crooks has become the first Cayman Islands swimmer ever to qualify for an Olympics Final. Swimming in the first of two semifinal races in the Men’s 50m Freestyle on Thursday, he was powerful out of the blocks and led the race from start to finish, clocking a time of 21.54 seconds, which was 0.04 seconds faster than Olympic record holder Caeleb Dressel (USA).
Earlier this week, Crooks became the third Cayman Islands swimmer ever to advance to an Olympics Semifinal by qualifying in the 100m Freestyle. This morning, he became the second Caymanian swimmer to advance to the Semifinals in multiple events at the Olympics. And now, in front of a packed Paris La Défense Arena he now becomes the only Caymanian swimmer ever to advance to the Finals in the Olympics.
The Finals will take place tomorrow, Friday 2 August. It is scheduled for 1:30pm Cayman time, and Crooks knows he’ll be walking out on the deck with all of the Cayman Islands behind him.
“I’m grateful for all the support so far through the meet, so thank you to everybody at home who’s been doing an awesome job supporting, and hopefully, I can make everyone proud tomorrow,” he said.
Information and quotes supplied by Cayman Islands Olympic Committee Press Attaché Kevin Morales.
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If Jordan wants to win Olympic medals he’ll need to transfer to a program which prioritizes long course training.
Good luck, Jordan!! Cayman is proud of you, win or lose!
What a wonderful achievement for this young man. To win a semi-final and qualify for the final is fantastic.
A personal best achieved at the Olympics with all the pressure is also an immense achievement.
Regardless of the result today, we are all so proud of you and wish the best for you in the final.
Watch parties everywhere. Not likely a Civil Service day of high productivity. Rather embarrassing that the Ministry of Culture is unable to spell Cardinall correctly too.
Good luck! What an amazing accomplishment!!
Go Jordan. Now one of the top 8 in the world. I can sense you are going to get the first Olympic medal for the Cayman Islands.
He will finish 5th.
I’m actually so curious, what type of people keep posting negative comments about our Olympic team. who are they? where are they from?
Olympic rules, you have to be a National of the Country you are representing.
@9:12am – I’m wondering the same thing! Jealousy and envy is a heck of a thing, eh?! Oh well – that’s for them to figure out.
!!GO JORDANNNNNNNNN!! Anyone who loves Cayman is proud of you and your achievements thus far. You are already a winner in our eyes and we wish you the very best.
Same to all our other athletes, by the way! Cayman is proud of you ALL!
Way to be supportive obvious ex-pat. Probably UK as well.
Pretty impressive
Big up Jam Rock 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
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Right on!!! Way to go 👊
Good luck!!
Good job Jordan. So proud of you. Wishing you great results tomorrow!
Awesome achievement! Well done indeed.