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Crous joins SA medley relay team

PART-time model Charl Crous gave South Africa a chance of an Olympic medal as he won the 100m backstroke final in a Games qualifying time last night.

The Durban swimmer clocked 54.17sec to fill the only gap in a 4x100m medley relay team that is suddenly threatening for a podium finish in London.

The other three strokes are in good hands - Cameron van der Burgh in the breaststroke, Chad Le Clos in the butterfly and the likes of Gideon Louw, Graeme Moore and old warhorse Roland Schoeman will do battle in the 100m freestyle here, starting in the heats this morning.

"I feel awesome," said Crous, who moonlights as a ramp and photographic model. "I had a lot of confidence after I did the time in the semifinals last night."

The biggest disappointment of the championships so far came in the 200m freestyle when Darian Townsend, Jean Basson and Sebastien Rousseau failed to qualify.

Le Clos had clocked a 1min 47.20sec qualifying time in the 200m freestyle in the semifinals on Tuesday night, but he scratched from the final to focus on the 200m butterfly, where he posted 1:55.30 last night.

That's the third event in which Le Clos has achieved a qualifying time at these championships.

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