Chad le Clos set for battle at Short Course World Championships
Los Angeles — A scattering of Rio Olympic medalists — including SA’s Chad le Clos — and a bevy of youngsters already looking towards the 2020 Tokyo Games will battle this week as the Short Course World Championships close out the swimming year in Windsor, Canada. With superstar Michael Phelps retired — this time, he says, for good — and many more of the sport’s big names opting to take a breather after the rigours of the Olympic season, the championships that start on Tuesday at Windsor’s WFCU Centre are a perfect opportunity for up-and-comers to establish themselves on the international stage. After a 16-gold haul in Rio, the US brings a 35-strong team featuring four individual medalists from Brazil. That includes women’s 100m breaststroke winner Lilly King, but King will not get a showdown with Russian Yulia Efimova, who has announced she will miss the championships because she has tonsillitis. King beat Efimova to gold in Rio, and called out the twice-banned Russian over failed d...
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