After a successful appeal, he will now swim the final against joint favourite Sun Yang (CHN) and defend his 2008 crown, but will the emotions of this morning hurt him tonight?
Spearheading the final will be 2012 world best Elizabeth Beisel (USA) who provided the performance of the morning, looking as though she pushed just enough, with plenty left in the tank for tonight, and Ye Shiwen (CHN) who set a new personal best this morning on her way to qualifying 2nd fastest.
Liuyang Jiao (CHN) also looked comfortable, while current world record holder and teammate Zige Liu seemed to struggle over the final meters – she will need to lift a lot to join the pre-mentioned girls in the final tomorrow.
Volvo inshore race Auckland 1 SCA (SWE) 2 Brunel (NED) 3 Mapfre (ESP) 4 Dongfeng (CHN) 5 Alvimedica (USA) 6 Abu Dhabi Overall standings after four legs 1= Abu Dhabi/Dongfeng 8 pts 3 Brunel 14 4= Alvimedica/Mapfre 16 6 SCA 24.
And CHN, a special education teacher from Houston, who works in a program that supports high school students with A.S.D. (65), noted: "Transition out of high school and into the real world is by far the most troubling and challenging issue we face".
D Cibulkova (Svk) & J Craybas (US) v J Gajdosova (Aus) & B Mattek-Sands (US, 12), J Zheng (Chn) v M Bartoli (Fr, 9), J Benneteau (Fr) v K Nishikori (Jpn, 24), B Mattek-Sands (US) & H Tecau (Rom, 8) v L Hradecka (Cz) & F Cermak (Cz).
Updated at 8.05pm BST 7.38pm BST Here's the take o'Tait: Sun Yang (CHN) was given a chance to win the 200m, 400m & 1500m freestyle events at these games.
That garbled stuff below was my attempt to find out who won the women's doubles badminton, and I think this says it better: DU & Yu (Chn) bt Lee & Lee (Kor) 2-0; (21-15), (21-13), so that's another gold for the home nation.
The battle will really only begin in the second half of the race with both Park, and Yang (CHN) favouring the last 150m to show their stripes.
Ying Lu (CHN) sits as second fastest, and expect British duo Fran Halsall and Elly Gandy to lift in front of a home crowd tonight and earn themselves a spot in the top eight.
V Williams (US) bt F Schiavone (It) 3-6 6-2 6-1 S Williams (US) bt S Stosur (Aus) 6-4 6-2 V Azarenka (Blr) bt V Zvonareva (Rus) 4-6 6-4 6-0 Na Li (Chn) bt C Wozniacki (Den) 6-4 6-4.
