It would be easy, at 18, let all that center of attention, the headlines, the attention, reach the head.
No summer mcintosh.
She comes from the unforgettable Canadian swimming tests in Victoria that saw her break three world records and publish Canadian records in two other events. Each swimming was a better personal way for her.
She broke the freestyle of 400 m, 400 m individual and 200 m Individual Medley World Records. He registered the third free of 800 m faster and more faster butterfly and butterfly.
After receiving his gold medal and a stuffed animal at the end of each victory ceremony in one of the best meetings with an individual in history, McIntosh quickly made his way to young children in the stands: first he threw his suffocating to the crowd and then gave him the gold medal.
That’s right, Mcintosh gave the five gold medals that establish records to young children who were attacked by their sports hero and a unique memory in life.
Look | Summer McIntosh in what follows:
Devin Heroux of CBC Sports sat down with Summer Mcintosh after establishing three world records and five national records in Canadian swimming tests in Victoria, BC
Humble. Gentle. See the general panorama at the time of excellence.
“Seeing the reaction of girls and boys, it is 10 times better than me keeping them in a memory box,” Mcintosh said. “I’m just going to see that so frequently. I prefer to give them away and spread the joy. They will appreciate it. It is good to be able to inspire and celebrate with them. That is the least I can do.” “
It was not a long time ago that McIntosh was on the pool deck in the AM Sports Center taking a photo with Penny Oleksiak, one of the most decorated Olympics in Canada, since Oleksiak prepared to go to the River Olympic Games and McIntosh dreamed with a day that perhaps went to the games.
Fast advance a few years later, Oleksiak has gone to three Olympic Games and McIntosh Dos, and both are part of a 26 swimmers who will represent Canada in the world championship this summer in Singapore.
Look | CBC Sports’ The Ready Room wraps the week in the tests:
Canadian swimming tests of 2025 will be remembered for many incredible actions headed by Summer Mcintosh and its 3 world records in 5 days. Now that it is over, Swimming Canada has announced swimmers and swimmers to go to the World Championship in Singapore. Devin Heroux and Brittany Maclean Campbell have everything for you now in the final episode of the swimming tests of ‘The Ready Room’.
McIntosh will be the best favorite to take three, four, maybe even five gold medals: it has been very clear that he wants to win five gold medals in the 2028 Olympic Games, so these world championships begin that search.
There is a tempting confrontation between McIntosh and Ledecky Brewing in the 800 m free event that Ledecky has maintained the world record for 12 years. McIntosh is approaching.
After what she calls the best meeting to date in her career, there is talk of McIntosh in the same prayer as large as Michael Phelps and Ledecky; He has a cat named Mikey, after Phelps, and used to put Ledecky appointments on his wall in his room.
Now she is making comparisons with them.
“These last five days have been absolutely wild. This is probably the best meeting of my career. It will take a few days to process,” he said.
Many call her one of the most dominant Canadian athletes in history.
“I cannot digest that at all. I have not really digested the Olympic Games and being an Olympic. Knowing that I have so many Canadians who support me means the absolute world for me. Every time I use the Canadian flag to try to use it with pride and make my country proud,” he said.
“We can feel the support and we will feel that support in Singapore.”
McIntosh has spent much of this year training in France under the guidance of French Olympic coach Fred Vergnoux. She proves it very much from the success she could achieve throughout her five events.
Look | McIntosh Shatters Records in the tests:
It has been an epic week in Canadian swimming tests of 2025 for Star Summer Mcintosh, which broke its own world record in the individual popurri of 400 meters, and established New World and National Records in several other events.
“Fred is the best of the best. I love him absolutely. We had a lot of fun together. We join very, very fast. He has pushed me so far and taught me a lot,” he said. “It is a genius when it comes to swimming and I know I can trust him.”
Vergnoux was in Victoria on the pool deck for every second place and hastened to provide some perspective at the end of the Mcintosh meeting.
“He is making things look totally extraordinary and we must make sure that people know that this is not normal,” said Vergnoux. “Summer is in a different league. I have trained many swimmers, but I have never seen someone like her. It’s unique. It’s very special and very concentrated and very professional. And he knows what he wants.”
What she wants is to be considered one of the best to do it. And he is completely ready to enter his superpower, safer than ever.
“I am no longer the hunter, I am the hunted,” he said. “I think I am at a point where I am really sure of myself. I would not say that the first world record was a coincidence, but it was a sure surprise. I did not think I would achieve it, but now I know that in my training I can overcome the limits of sport.”
It would have been easy for McIntosh to leave the gas after winning three gold medals last summer in Paris, and then destroy more gold and world records in the World Championship of Short Courses in Budapest last December.
Look | Penny Oleksiak by learning to love swimming again:
The most decorated Olympic in Canada, Penny Oleksiak, has been in the Canada team in ten years, and has had a love and hate relationship with the sport that made it a super star. She tells our Devin Heroux more about the new career chapter in which she is finding joy.
But she has not stopped. There is a burning desire that keeps it underway, and some unfinished issues as well.
“The Olympic Games, the goal was four gold and did not get to that, so I was hungry for more and that really kept me motivated this season,” he said.
Surprisingly, McIntosh says that each of his record actions during the tests could have been better. She has seen all the races again, carefully studying the hundredths of the second lost here and there.
“The athletes who break the world records are quite critical and I think that is what keeps me moving forward,” he said. “I don’t think there is such a perfect race. I haven’t done it yet. The 400 m freestyle was close.
Not only is it a Canadian superstar, now it is a global power. The eyes of the world of swimming were completely obsessed in the Commonwealth Place every time Mcintosh was heading to water.
John Atkinson, high performance director of Swimming Canada, said it is still an extraordinary moment to swim in this country.
“She deserves all the credit. We have a superstar athlete and we have had news executed by Canada, national broadcasts repeatedly at the time, this is innovative for sport,” he said.
And Mcintosh is just starting. A day after breaking his third world record in five days, he returned to the pool: a double training sessions. Relentless. Focused. Always pushing.
Because she knows that children are looking.
