Swimming: Phelps posts year’s fastest 200m fly

OHIO: Michael Phelps delivered a blistering 200-metre butterfly time of one minute and 55.32 seconds (s) - the fastest time in the world this year - to win the event at the US Swimming’s Columbus Grand Prix. Phelps improved on Joseph Roebuck’s time of one minute and 55.94 seconds (s) set at Britain’s Olympic trials at London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre on Tuesday to gain a comfortable victory over Tom Kremer (one minute and 58.34s) and Dakota Hodgson (one minute and 59.31s). “We were just trying to get my stroke back and I think we finally achieved that,” said Phelps. “Now it’s time to fine-tune some [other] things.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 12^th, 2012.