Reality hit Team SA hard and painfully in Tokyo on Wednesday with no medals coming in on what had once promised to be the most profitable day of the Games.
London 2012 champion Chad Le Clos ended fifth in the men’s 200m butterfly, and cyclist Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio placed eighth in the women’s individual time trial.
But just two months ago Lawrence Brittain, Kyle Schoonbee, John Smith and Sandro Torrente beat all three of those crews In Lucerne. Back in May they even got the better of Romania and Italy, who took the silver and bronze medals behind Australia on Wednesday. Hungarian Kristof Milak won in an Olympic record 1:51.25, followed by Japan’s Tomoru Honda and Federico Burdisso of Italy .
Moolman-Pasio also gave it her all over the 22.1km course, crossing the line in 32min 37.60sec, 2:24.11 behind Dutch winner Annemiek van Vleuten and 1:22.48 behind Dutch bronze medallist Anna van der Breggen. Surfer Smith didn’t get a chance, although had he been competing for a medal in Tokyo, he too would have competed on what became Terrific Tuesday.
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