The 29-year-old superstar, who finished fifth in the 200m ‘’fly final on Wednesday, touched sixth in his heat in 51.89sec, ending 18th overall and two spots outside the top 16 that progressed to Friday’s semifinals.
This was the first major gala in 10 years at which Le Clos, with four Olympic gongs and seven world championships medals under his belt, had failed to reach the podium.
And nobody is going to join them this year at least; the only other Rio 2016 medallist in action on Thursday, defending champion Joseph Schooling of Singapore, failed to advance, clocking a distant 53.12. That’s how much this event has improved in the past five years, considerably more so than the 200m race, where the bronze medal time in Tokyo was the slowest it’s been since Athens 2004.
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