Before his 200m butterfly final earlier this morning, superstar Chad le Clos walked away with an Olympic silver 24 hours earlier, from his newest battlefield - the 200m freestyle, an event in which he first competed at top level only two years ago. But he was a little disappointed he hadn't picked up gold. Le Clos, who bagged the 200m butterfly gold and 100m 'fly silver at London in 2012, touched in 1min 45.20 for second place behind China's Sun Yang (1:44.65), having led for the first three laps. American Conor Dwyer was third just three-hundredths of a second behind."I got the silver - look, I'm obviously very happy with that, but it would have been nice to win gold," Le Clos said."I always race to win. Silver is great but if we'd had that race again I would have loved to have won it. I got beaten by the better man. We'll work on this and we'll come back stronger," said Le Clos, sixth in this event at the world championships last year.Le Clos went out hard from the start, clocking an incredible 23.39sec over the first 50m, which represented a break from his usual butterfly tactic of attacking from behind."It was a crazy race," admitted Le Clos, who swam in lane one."The tactic was to go out hard. It's the first time I've ever gone out that hard."But I think having the outside lane gave me the advantage. I just wanted to put it all on the line and have no regrets, turn at the 150, have a big underwater and hopefully hang on."The swimmer said he was inspired by his parents Bert and Geraldine, who have both been battling cancer recently.Jarred Crous and Cameron van der Burgh yesterday failed to qualify for the men's 200m breaststroke final, after finishing 25th and 26th overall respectively.SA's men's 4x200m freestyle team (featuring Myles Brown, Sebastien Rousseau, Calvin Justus and Dylan Bosch) endured a similarly disappointing day after finishing fifth in their heat. - Additional reporting by Sports Staff writer..