I missed watching Chad le Clos and Singapore's very own Joseph Schooling in his olympic debut! Although he didn't make it into the semifinals, at least he was in heat 5 together with Michael Phelps. I bet local press would give that a mention. Some of the Youth Olympians: Bence Biczo (Hun), Velimir Stjepanovic (Srb), Marcin Cieslak (Pol) are here, in the event that they're good to qualify for the finals in the youth version. And other than Cieslak, all my little youth olympians made it to the semifinals! (I say "little" because they're obviously younger than I am; but they do look freakishly old and hulky) Biczo, beat Chad le Clos to win gold back in 2010 and Stejepanovic was bronze. Guess their speed 2 years ago is actually enough for Olympics semifinals. So proud of them. That and they trained uber hard, of course. Stjepanovic often eludes this very mysterious, sinister feel. He is so well hidden and so under the radar...that he might bring some surprises, who knows. :))
Semifinals 1
1. Chirs Wright (Aus)
2. Peng Wu (Chn)
3. Yin Chen (Chn)
4. Tyler Clary (Usa)
5. Chad le Clos (Rsa)
6. Takeshi Matsuda (Jpn)
7. Nick D'Arcy (Aus)
8. Ioannis Drymonakos (Gre)
Semifinals 2
1. Bence Biczo (Hun)
2. Laszlo Cseh (Hun)
3. Michael Phelps (Usa)
4. Dinko Jukic (Aut)
5. Velimir Stjepanovic (Srb)
6. Kazuya Kaneda (Jpn)
7. Pawel Korzeniowski (Pol)
8. Nikolay Skvortsov (Rus)
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