Even when he looks like he is on a go-slow, Chad le Clos still gets the job done. The world 200m butterfly champion received a surprise on Monday night when organisers at the Commonwealth Games trials here called his race 20 minutes ahead of schedule. "I don’t like to make excuses, I hadn’t even suited up," said Le Clos, who won in 1min 58.01sec — slower than the 1:56 he had targeted. "But it was slow, let’s be honest," added the star swimmer who had recently warned that because of the hard work he had been doing in training since his last race in November, his times would be less than impressive at the Kings Park pool. In the last race of the night Le Clos won the 100m freestyle in 49.74, ahead of Calvyn Justus (50.35) and Leith Shankland (50.51), who also beat the qualifying times. Shankland, a year away from becoming a chartered accountant, returned to the pool recently after more than two years in retirement to lose excess weight he had picked up. Having rediscovered the joy of ...
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