Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanglu, who won gold in the 100m freestyle at the Olympics games in Paris, accused the Australian and American athletes of not showing respect, BTA reported.
The athlete recorded a result of 46.40 seconds, improving the world record, which also belonged to him.
„We avenged the past shame. On the first day of the 4x100m relay, I congratulated Chalmers of Australia, but he ignored me, and neither did Alexi of Team USA. When we were training, our mentor was standing by and they swam over and splashed him with water. They look down on us.
However, I managed to beat everyone and break the world record. A great performance and a good start for the Chinese team. I wasn't thinking about the world record at all, I just wanted to swim as fast as possible. 15 meters before the final, I realized that everyone was too far behind and would no longer be able to catch up with me,”, Sport.ifeng quoted Janlu as saying.
In the 100m freestyle Gianlui beat Kyle Chalmers (Australia) by 1.08 seconds and bronze medalist David Popovic (Romania) by 1.09 seconds.