On August 6, Beijing time, Pan Zhanle revealed on the "Chinese Role Model" program that after he previously called Australian swimming star Chalmers "ignorant", the latter encountered online violence. Pan Zhanle responded, "Maybe Chalmers really didn't see it because they were more excited about winning the silver medal." "Now that Chalmers has been exposed online, I still feel sad for him." Pan Zhanle also said that Chalmers exchanged swimming caps with him on the last day and that he "respected such an opponent."
(Pan Zhanle was interviewed by the "Chinese Role Model" program, video screenshot)
html On August 7, Chalmers forwarded the video of Pan Zhanle's clarification on the program on his personal social media account, with the text: thank you!On the evening of July 31, local time, in the men's 100-meter freestyle final of the Paris Olympic Games, Chinese player Pan Zhanle won the championship with a time of 46.40 seconds and broke the world record held by himself. After the game, Pan Zhanle once said, "I greeted Chalmers down below, and he ignored me at all, including Alexi from the U.S. team. We were training, and the coach was on the shore. He rolled and splashed directly on the coach. Splash. I feel like I looked down on us. Today we finally won all of them."
Source: Global Network
