Gold: Sun Yang (CHN) Olympic Record, World Record 14:31.02
Silver: Ryan Cochrane (CAN) 14:39.63
Bronze: Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 14:40.31
Sun Yang is insane! I was just introducing to my sister who has make it awake to her first ever live swimming events at this olympics, about what happened the last weeks and who the swimmers are. Sun Yang got off to a false start, second so far in this games. Also in this race is Park Taehwan, nice to see him interacting with Sun in the waiting room. The both had definitely grown closer - I'm not sure if they're friends yet, but hope they are - over the past week due to all their events clashing. Sun led from start to finish, Park was second in the first third of the race but fell behind afterwards. Sun didn't kick as much, he was using mainly his hands, cruising along. And he was consistent throughout the race and was ahead of his own world record which he set last year by a stunning 3s (his old record was 14:34.14). A well deserved race! And I wondered what secrets goes behind his training...he is coached by another legend, Grant Hackett's coach.
Mellouli, 27, was the gold medalist for this event at Beijing 2008, and had been the world champion for several years till 2009, till this young boy showed up. This is very well his last olympics, but he looks genuinely contented at his win, as he congratulated Sun happily in the pool and tried to comfort him as Sun did his 'roar' thing. Cochrane, 23, was silver at the last games.
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