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MEN’S 400M FREESTYLE FINALS
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Top Seed: 3:43.42 – Conor Dwyer – USA
World Record: 3:40.07 (2009) – Paul Biedermann – Germany
JR World Record: 3:44.60 – Mack Horton – Australia
Olympic Record: 3:40.14 (2012) – Sun Yang – China
2012 Olympic Champion: 3:40.14 – Sun Yang – China
Things between Australian Mack Horton and rival swimmer Sun Yang have been heating up over the last few days in anticipation of this final.
Horton called Yang out for his previous doping violation, and backed up his talk with a gold medal performance in the 400, dethroning Yang who was the defending Olympic champion.
James Guy of Britain took things out fast, leading the way at the halfway point under world record pace. Quickly, he fell off that pace and both Yang, Horton, and America’s Conor Dwyer emerged in front.
At the 350-meter wall, Yang took the lead ahead of Horton and Dwyer. With 50-meters to go, Horton wouldn’t lose. He passed Yang, held on for the touch, and grabbed his first individual gold medal with a 3:41.55 performance.
Yang lost it all at the touch, with a 3:41.68. The two were icy to each other following the swim, not even acknowledging the race with anything but a tough stare.
Gabriele Detti of Italy picked up the bronze in 3:43.49, making him the first male Italian medallist in swimming since the 2000 Olympic Games.
Dwyer settled for fourth in 3:44.01, his American counterpart Connor Jaeger was fifth in 3:44.16. Guy faded to sixth with a 3:44.68
- Mack Horton – Australia – 3:41.55
- Sun Yang – China – 3:41.68
- Gabriele Detti – Italy -3:43.49
- Conor Dwyer – USA – 3:44.01
- Connor Jaeger– USA – 3:44.16
- James Guy – Britain – 3:44.68
- David McKeon – Australia – 3:45.28
- Jordan Pothain – France – 3:49.07
Mack Horton does not deserve Olympic gold medal.He is just the bastard with rough and language and behavior resulting from the genes of his ancestors who were ganster,rogue,hoodlum,hooligan;loafer or scoundrel.He called Sun Yang as “drug cheat” based on his wrong proof,so what are you? He hurted not only Sun Yang, but also Chinese.He must apologize for this, or he will not be welcome to China forever.All Chinese will spit on him and his grave.
So did Kylie Palmer, she tested positive too! and the entire AU men’s swimming team for knowingly taking AOC banned drugs. Does Horton call them drug cheats too?
theres 430,000 comments on mack’s latest Instagram post which is like all the Chinese
Well, he can come back with one reply: “I’m the Olympic champion. Deal with it. FOREVER.”
which would be utterly irrelevant beause that hasnt anything to do with his disrespectful behaviour
please he did a little trash talk, nothing wrong with that, and he backed it up in the pool. This is good for the sport.
Sun does not deserve any respect. He is a full blown cheat. There is nothing honorable in that. The Chinese federation is a joke and those defending Sun are delusional about their “hero”.
nobody questioned the championship of Horton, just his disrespecful behavior. You guys should really look into the truth before making these ignorant comments. Sun was so closed to Horton at the finish line this time and a gold medalist last time, which already proved his capability. And you call him a drug tricker without any solid proof, excuse me?
Solid proof? He got suspended for 3 months by his own country! How’s that for proof?
I think I found his follow up interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyKBfp3ov0
Whats up with the Steve Bartman headphones?
They are so a translator can translate the questions from normal English into Aussie accent English 😉
Good one!