Breaststroke champion Cameron van der Burgh admits cheating his way to Olympic gold

SOUTH African breaststroker Cameron van der Burgh has made the extraordinary concession that he cheated his way to gold ahead of Australian Christian Sprenger in the 100m breaststroke final.
As revealed first on LondonNow, underwater footage clearly showed van der Burgh doing three dolphin kicks at the start of the race.

Under FINA rules, swimmers are permitted one but because the governing body does not use underwater technology he won the gold without sanction.

Van der Burgh was unapologetic about breaking the rules – and accused Australian veteran Brenton Rickard of doing the same thing in the final.

Earlier, Rickard had said it was time to introduce underwater technology.