Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 3–4 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London United Kingdom.Shaking off a potential false start due to fan noise China’s Sun Yang put together a marvelous swim in the event’s history with a relentless attack on his world record to strike a long-distance freestyle double for the first time since Soviet Union’s Vladimir Salnikov did so in 1980.