FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 50m Backstroke Semifinals - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 27, 2019. Evgeny Rylov of Russia after the race. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The focus may be on the big name Americans and Australians but this could be the Games where Russian swimmers could make their biggest splash in the men's events in 25 years.
No Russian man has won a swimming gold in the Olympics since the Atlanta Games in 1996 when Alexander Popov and Denis Pankratov both topped the podium twice.
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