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原文地址： http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... /article4577785.ece
David Davies, of Cardiff, added to the British run on medals with a silver inwhat was only the third 10km marathon swim of his career, finishing 1.5secbehind Dutchman Maarten van der Weijden after dominating for most of therace on in a rain-swept Shunyi Olympic Rowing lake.
The champion’s story is one that will be filed in the book of Olympic lore inthe chapter entitled “Against the odds”: he was just 20 when he wasdiagnosed with acute lymphatic leukaemia. Given only a slim chance ofsurvival, his treatment included chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant.Now 27, he is the first Olympic 10km marathon champion in history.
After having set the pace for almost every metre of the way, Davies put in ablistering turn of speed 1km out but he led the leading three, includingThomas Lurz of Germany down the middle of the course on the way down thehome stretch and was forced to swerve across the course in the final 400m.Disorientated and drained, he went too wide, took Lurz with him and gave theDutchman the perfect line. From 100m out, van der Weijden had his two rivalsin his sights every time he turned to breath. The argument was over in 1hour51 minutes 51.6 seconds, with Davies second 1.5sec adrift and Lurz third afurther 0.5sec behind.
Davies's silver medal completes a fine performance in the open water event forGreat Britain: three out of three. On Wednesday, Keri-Anne Payne and CassiePatten took silver and bronze in the women’s race.
As he climbed out of the lake on to the pontoon, Davies collapsed and did nothave the energy to fend off stretcher bearers who carried him to a nearbyambulance. Davies played down the incident when he said: "I just wanted tolie down and have a sleep, but before I knew it I was on a stretcher."
Once he had recovered, he found himself being dragged away from mediainterviews by overzealous Chinese marshals. A scuffle broke out, in whichDavies’s coach Kevin Renshaw, and Michael Scott, Britain’s performancedirector, shouted at the marshals to “keep your hands off him – do not touchhim.” The female marshal then shouted at Davies, who broke off from beinginterviewed to say: “Just shut up!” She did no such thing but before sheknew it, Davies had splashed water in her face from the drinks bottle he wascarrying. Scott joked: “He was just shaking a champagne bottle, nothing morethan that.”
The crown went to the brave Dutchman, van der Weijden, who has recovered fromcancer, made a comeback and celebrated gold after a monumental tussle withDavies, who led for the vast majority of the race, having taken the sametactic as Payne and Patten the day before, breaking to the front from thestart in order to stay out of trouble. Drafting in swimming is estimated bythe English Institute of Sport to save 15 per cent on energy: a lot ofenergy was saved by Davies's rivals in today's race drafting behind him.
Spyridon Giannotis, the Greek challenger whose mother hails from Liverpool,took the lead for 10mins half an hour hour into the race. But for that, thepace was set entirely by Davies, who hung on to the lead before surgingabout 1km from home. The Welshman opened up a 10m lead but Van der Weijden,Lurz and world champion Vladimir Dyatchin of Russia followed. Over thecourse of the next 800m, the Russian, who defeated Davies by a hand for theworld crown in May, was given a red card for thumping a rival, his Olympicdream over.
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