Swimmer le Clos says his home was destroyed in a fire while he was at the Commonwealth Games

Swimmer le Clos says his home was destroyed in a fire while he was at the Commonwealth Games

CAPE TOWN: (Aug 5) Olympic champion swimmer Chad le Clos says his home in South Africa was destroyed in a fire a day after he became the most decorated athlete ever at the Commonwealth Games.

Le Clos said in a post on his Instagram account on Tuesday that his apartment in Cape Town was one of several in the block to be gutted in a fire on July 30 while he was at the games in Glasgow, Scotland.

The 34-year-old South African won a record 21st Commonwealth Games medal a day before the fire with a bronze in the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay.