Chad le clos
Sascoc not taking position on possible postponement of Olympics Games
Australia and Canada have announced they will not send athletes to Tokyo if the Games were held this year.
Le Clos had set up in Turkey after an earlier camp in Italy had been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, but is now at home in Cape Town.
Yes, Chad le Clos wants his Olympic gold medal after losing to drug cheat China's Sun Yang in Rio 2016, but SA's swimming superstar laments that what he lost cannot be returned.
The 21-year-old stopped the clock after 24.43 seconds to finish ahead of the Russian duo of Evgeny Rilov and current world record holder Kliment Kolesnikov.
Kristof Milak sliced a whopping 0.78 seconds off Michael Phelps's previous world best, which was achieved during the bodysuit era, after flirting with the record for much of the past season.
South Africans in each of the categories include the likes of recent BET Award winner, Sho Madjozi, Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk, Boity Thulo, Trevor Stuurman, Thando Thabethe, Springbok, Siya Kolisi and more.
Chad le Clos and Erin Gallagher both posted qualifying times for the Fina World Championships as they struck gold in their respective events on the first day of the 2019 SA National Aquatic Championships in Durban on Monday.
Santos's winning 21.81secs was a new championship record and even though it fell just short of his global leading time of 21.75secs, set in October, he was clearly delighted to get one over rival Le Clos, the reigning champion and an Olympic gold medallist.
Stopping the clock at 48:50, Chad le Clos won his fourth 100m Butterfly World title of his career and adding to his silver in the 200m Butterfly a couple of days ago.
Chad le Clos won his third medal of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
The South African won the final in a time of 1 minute 54 seconds, lowering the mark of 1 minute 55.07 seconds he set at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Chad Le Clos has won South Africa’s first gold medal in the swimming at the Commonwealth Games, winning the 50m Butterfly event.
South African swimming champion Chad Le Clos says he wants to continue representing South Africa and has his sights firmly set on the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2018.
The 25-year-old redeemed himself for finishing fourth in the butterfly at the Olympic Games last year.
Cameron van der Burgh will compete in the 50m breaststroke final after finishing second in his heat in a time of 26.54 seconds which was a new African and South African record.
Le Clos powered into the lead & stayed out in front with brilliantly executed turns before finishing the race in a record 48.08 seconds.
Le Clos recently announced that he was splitting from his coach, Graham Hill, following the Rio Olympic Games, where he won two silver medals.
Fikile Mbalula says Nelson Mandela’s legacy lives through all South Africa's medallists.
The Olympic medallist chats to EWN on his return from the 2016 Olympic games in Brazil where he won 2 silver medals.