The swim meet arrives, Gou is pumped, Ama-chan-Sensei photobombs and dramatically offers advice, Rin wants to win for his dad, and Haruka... loses.
Gou takes her manager position for the swim club very seriously. From recording results, developing pictures, and scouting the opposition. Of course, that seems to be just an excuse to look at muscles. She totally represents the female fans of this show, I'm sure. Meanwhile, we get some insight into Rin's motivation to become an Olympic swimmer: completing the dreams of his father, who got married and became a fisherman to support his young family. He died too, in that typhoon that claimed the life of the old fisherman who was Makoto's friend. Possibly related? Whereas Haruka just wanted to swim with his friends, Rin became competitive after his father's death.
Anyway, enough with that crap. We're finally at a tournament, so I can truthfully claim I'm watching this show for the sports club vibe and tournament style drama. And drama is there to be had, because Haruka loses to Rin, and his time was also too low, that he didn't make the cut for the final heat in supposedly his only event. I saw a couple of things during that race that will make the key turning points for the revenge in the medley relay: Haruka needs a better dolphin kick, and he needs to power up his turn. Hopefully Haruka got a good wake-up call there.
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