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Sun Yang broke Grant Hackett's long-standing 1500m freestyle world record and also won the 800m and the Chinese swimmer grabbed two more golds at the London 2012 Olympics, again setting a new mark in the 1500m -- a record that still stands.
For anybody surprised about those ‘marquis tent’ moments, as an ABC journalist crudely termed them, the Olympics is as much about torment as it is about achievement. The torment is very much reserved for the athlete, the achievement reserved for officialdom and media and spectator consumption. By Binoy Kampmark
Katie Ledecky has ranked first in the women's 800 freestyle worldwide for 10 straight years.
200 breaststroke Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook edged out 200 IM winner Wang Shun as the Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year.
Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui smashed countrymate Ous Mellouli's African Record in the 800 and 1500 in tonight's 1500 final in Abu Dhabi.