Decorated swimmers Mary T. Meagher and Susie O'Neill who both specialized had what operatic nickname?
Susie O'Neill international meet she attended, right up until her final Olympics in front of a home crowd in Australia. At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Trials, she broke the 19-year-old world record of another "Madame Butterfly", Mary T. Meagher, in the 200m butterfly, but was beaten at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games by American Misty Hyman, in an upset. She trained under Bernie Wakefield until 1994, then Scott Volkers at the Commercial Swimming Club in Brisbane. O'Neill is an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation. She commentated at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She was
Mary T. Meagher swimming complex is named for Meagher, and a street is named in her honor in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. <br> <br> Mary T. Meagher Mary Terstegge Meagher Plant (born October 27, 1964) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. In 1981 she bettered her own existing world records in the 100-meter butterfly (57.93) and 200-meter butterfly (2:05.96). These times would stand as the respective world records for 18 and 19 years, and are considered to be among the greatest sports performances ever. Meagher is the daughter of two-time Notre Dame basketball letterman James L. Meagher. She was a