Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 50m Freestyle Victory Ceremony - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 27, 2019. Gold medallist Caeleb Dressel of the U.S. poses. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Caeleb Dressel lit up the pool by winning his fourth, fifth and sixth gold medals on Saturday but even his electric performance failed to brighten the mood on a dark day at the world swimming championships in Gwangju.
Athletes awoke to news that several water polo players had been injured in a terrifying accident in the early hours of Saturday morning when the second floor of a nightclub came down on the heads of revellers below.
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