{"id":417236,"date":"2024-08-14T00:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=417236"},"modified":"2024-08-14T05:08:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:08:34","slug":"chalmers-reveals-family-abuse-after-swim-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=417236","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers reveals family abuse after swim saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian swimming favourite Kyle Chalmers<\/a> says he and his loved ones have been trolled so badly following comments by Chinese gold medallist Pan Zhanle that it's marred his Olympic experience.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old said he'd received "thousands and thousands of messages and hate comments" and family members had also been targeted.<\/p>\n

Chalmers claimed silver in the 100m freestyle at Paris 2024<\/a> to add to his gold in Rio and silver in Tokyo as Pan shattered the world record to win the normally tight race by a body length.<\/p>\n

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\"Gold<\/p>\n

But it wasn't the Wenzhou 20-year-old's "superhuman" performance in the La Defense Arena pool that cast a pall over Chalmers' Olympic experience but comments he made poolside to Chinese media.<\/p>\n

"On the first day, at the 4x100m relay, after we finished swimming I greeted Chalmers. He didn't pay any attention at all," Pan said.<\/p>\n

Chalmers said he found the comments "weird" given all the interactions between the pair before the claim.<\/p>\n

"I spoke in the marshalling room with him, after the race went straight over in the pool, shook his hand, on the podium shook hands," he told 60 Minutes<\/em> in an interview recorded during the Games that aired last night.<\/p>\n

"And then it wasn't until after that had all happened that I found about what was said in the media, which I, yeah, just find really weird.<\/p>\n

"And then last night he came and found me and we exchanged racing caps, which was cool, so From my point of view there's no animosity whatsoever. So I did find that very weird. It has definitely been challenging."<\/p>\n

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\"Zhanle<\/p>\n

Chalmers told 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown said the trolls piled in, attacking him and his family and leaving him fearing for all of their safety.<\/p>\n

"The thousands and thousands of messages and hate comments that I've received since then has been extremely challenging, and I think takes away from my special moment and makes me feel unhappy," Chalmers said.<\/p>\n

"But also having those messages go onto other people's profiles that I love so desperately and them getting dragged into it, it's really hard, it's probably changed my Olympics experience a lot."<\/p>\n

China's swim team came into the Games under a cloud after The New York Times<\/em> revealed 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for doping ahead of the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games three years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/p>\n

They were allowed to compete after a Chinese investigation ruled that they consumed food that had been contaminated, a decision that sparked an FBI investigation, and harsh criticism of the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee, particularly from US anti-doping officials.<\/p>\n

Pan was not one of those swimmers and has never tested positive for any banned substances.<\/p>\n

Australian coach Brett Hawke, a former Olympian, questioned the legitimacy of the swim but Chalmers said he trusted his opponent.<\/p>\n

"I know that in my heart of hearts, I can't swim that fast," he told 60 Minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Like I know that I can't. I train so hard and I'd love to swim that fast but I know that it wasn't possible for me to win that gold medal."<\/p>\n

Chalmers said he trusted everyone at the games was clean.<\/p>\n

"They have to be clean to be here," he said.<\/p>\n

"I get drug tested all the time and I do all the right things. So I have to trust that my competitors are doing all the right things, and he's never tested positive so I trust that he's doing the right things and that he's a superhuman," Chalmers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"Like I've never been beaten by a body-length before in my entire career. And that last 15 metres, breathing and seeing his feet, I was like, "I've had the worst race of my life", like, 'All I can see is this guy's feet, I'm coming dead last'.<\/p>\n

"But he produced something that we've never seen, so yeah, I have to trust it."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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