FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women's 800m Freestyle Victory Ceremony - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 27, 2019. Bronze medallist Ariarne Titmus of Australia poses. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Ariarne Titmus's coach believes the postponement of the Olympics will be a "positive" for the young Australian world champion as she prepares to face American Katie Ledecky in a tantalising Tokyo showdown.
The Tasmanian teenager stunned the swimming world, and herself, when she won the world 400 metres freestyle title in Gwangju last year, ending Ledecky's six-year unbeaten run at world championships.
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