From pool to school
South African swimming hunk and Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos made a girl's day by agreeing to go to her school dance when she wooed him with a poster at a Johannesburg airport.
"I just started to cry. I was shaking and I was so nervous," said Melanie Olhaus, 17, after Le Clos agreed to be her date.
Le Clos beat US legend Michael Phelps by five-hundredths of a second to take gold in the 200m butterfly on July 31.
His unexpected victory catapulted the tanned 20-year-old to instant stardom in his country.
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