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It\u2019s only now that he\u2019s opening up about that experience and seeking help in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Le Clos revealed the struggles in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newframe.com\/chad-le-clos-deep-waters-of-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with South African outlet The New Frame<\/a>. He did not disclose the nature of the event or circumstances, saying only: \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ll never talk about because it\u2019s not for anybody else to know. But it was something so deep, it was worse than my parents having cancer and this was worse for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadleclos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chadleclos<\/a> for your honesty and always being happy to chat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cn91hJ8rPQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cn91hJ8rPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karien Jonckheere (@KarienJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarienJ\/status\/1520352161066065920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Le Clos said the traumatic experience combined with other factors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-day-chad-le-clos-seeking-the-unconfined-joy-gold-would-bring-at-tokyo-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to weigh him down in 2021<\/a>. Those included a shift in sponsorship dollars and the shifting currents of attention in South African swimming. Le Clos, then 29, finished fifth in the men\u2019s 200 fly. He didn\u2019t escape the heats of the 100 fly, an event in which he\u2019d won silver in consecutive Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until after the Tokyo Olympics that le Clos sought professional help, a delay which he now regrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only started to speak to someone after the Olympics \u2013 biggest mistake of my life \u2013 and I started getting myself right again. I was in a dark place, even after the Olympics,\u201d he said. \u201cI was super depressed.<\/p>\n<p>There were times where I was sitting in my room just crying by myself. I didn\u2019t know why I was like that. It genuinely wasn\u2019t about the Olympics. It was about my future and about me\u2026 it felt like I had fallen such a long way from where I was in terms of who I was as a person. It really wasn\u2019t about swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Le Clos is, in his worlds, \u201con my way back\u201d now. He\u2019s progressing in his therapy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/led-by-pieter-coetze-nine-south-africans-book-worlds-spots-at-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he\u2019s coming off an impressive showing in the South African Championships<\/a>. His next goal is to become the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history, needing two medals for that. He\u2019s also got an eye toward the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m winning medals in two years\u2019 time, I can promise you that,\u201d le Clos said. \u201cSo I\u2019m not worried about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newframe.com\/chad-le-clos-deep-waters-of-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The New Frame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I was super depressed\u2019: Chad Le Clos on Pre-Tokyo Trauma and Recovery Chad le Clos underwent a traumatic experience in January 2021, something that clouded his Olympic experience in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":486593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[122266,122412,70616,34632,103445,25134,57064,1086,7419],"class_list":["post-504929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2021-olympics","tag-2022-commonwealth-games","tag-2024-olympic-games-coverage-paris","tag-2024-olympics","tag-2024-paris-olympics","tag-chad-le-clos","tag-mental-health","tag-south-africa","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Chad le Clos; Photo Courtesy: Mike Lewis\/ISL","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chad-le-Clos-Energy-Standard-ISL-by-Mike-Lewis-_MZB5678-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-27m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}