Rio Olympics 2016: Kyle Chalmers embraces the pain to complete meteoric rise to Rio Olympics glory

By Phil Lutton
Updated August 11 2016 - 4:26pm, first published 4:00pm

There was a point in the final, desperate stages of the men's 100m freestyle final when the main players felt their legs failing and their arms morphing into concrete pillars. The dreaded "wall" had been reached.

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