{"id":67756,"date":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/uncategorized\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Istanbul, Thursday 13th December<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Chad Le Clos\u00a0 won\u00a0 the \u00a0men\u2019s 100m fly, to become the new World Champion (SC)\u2026\u00a0 We managed to speak with him following the race, and this is what he had to say\u2026..<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I beat my personal best time by almost a second, so I am really happy&#8230; I wanted to go out hard and fast from the beginning, so I did&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our excellent and rather gorgeous Cristina Cantoni\u00a0 was\u00a0 covering the event, and spotted Chad listening to music, prior to his race.. She asked him what he was listening to, and his response was\u2026.. <em>\u201cIt was a music track that my friend made for me after the London Olympics. It includes race commentary and the sound of the crowd, as well as having a heavy sounding beat&#8221;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note: Drum &amp; Bass could help you become an Olympic Champion\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Laszlo Cseh collected silver in the men\u2019s 400m Individual Medley.\u00a0 An excellent result, but passionate Laszlo was not so convinced, commenting <em>\u201cI&#8217;m not satisfied with my swim. I planned to swim with a different rhythm, but I didn&#8217;t, so I am not happy. My goal was to win&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for today, enjoy the pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Thursday 13th December &#8211;\u00a0 Chad Le Clos\u00a0 won\u00a0 the \u00a0men\u2019s 100m fly, to become the new World Champion (SC)\u2026\u00a0 We managed to speak with him following the race, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10070],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...|Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...|Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...|Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...|Istanbul 2012: Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Istanbul, Thursday 13th December &#8211;\u00a0 Chad Le Clos\u00a0 won\u00a0 the \u00a0men\u2019s 100m fly, to become the new World Champion (SC)\u2026\u00a0 We managed to speak with him following the race, and &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The arena swimming blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arenawaterinstinct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-13T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emily\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@arenapeople\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@arenapeople\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emily\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emily\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4a1d652f23459c017917a115f82a1c55\"},\"headline\":\"Chad proves that you don\u2019t need wings to fly&#8230;\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-13T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-13T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/chad-proves-that-you-dont-need-wings-to-fly\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Events &amp; 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