Caeleb dressel
Teens Popovici and McIntosh grab world swimming golds as Dressel quits
After Caeleb Dressel, one of the veterans expected to dominate the World Swimming Championships, quit the competition on Wednesday, two teenagers, 17-year-old...
The Tokyo Aquatics Centre also witnessed a dominant 100m breaststroke swim by world record holder Adam Peaty, who defended his title to give Britain its first gold medal of the Games. Elsewhere on the third day of action in Tokyo, Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt won the men's triathlon in a race marred by a bizarre false start.
The versatile Dutch runner, Sifan Hassan, this month came within half a second of a stunning world record in the women's 1500m, just five days after setting a short-lived 10,000m world record.