Japan teenager Shin Ohashi overcomes Covid and fever to smash breaststroke world record

Swimmer wins 200m gold at Asian Games Says Covid helped him rest and ‘was a good thing’ The Japanese teenager Shin Ohashi said a bout of Covid helped him smash the men’s 200m breaststroke world record in a time of 2min 4.

83sec at the Asian Games on Thursday. The 17-year-old won his second gold of the Games in Tokyo despite running a temperature of about 39C just days before the competition began. Continue reading...