Swimming: Dust still to settle after dramatic world championships

Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 100m Butterfly Final - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 27, 2019. Caeleb Dressel of the U.S. competes. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - If the world swimming championships in Gwangju were just a taste of what is to come at the 2020 Olympics, then in the words of recently retired Australian sprinter James Magnussen -- "Brace yourselves".

A meet that was supposed to serve as an indicator of form heading into next year's Games in Tokyo, the championships delivered this and more. Much, much more.