Swimming: Phelps eyes another eight in London
Phelps won the 100m butterfly on the penultimate night of the US Olympic swimming trials.
OMAHA:
Michael Phelps is headed to the London Olympics with a chance to match his glittering eight-gold haul of 2008. Phelps won the 100m butterfly on the penultimate night of the US Olympic swimming trials yesterday in 51.14 seconds to claim a fifth individual berth for London. Phelps was nowhere near his world record of 49.82 seconds but he was fastest in the world this year. “It was a pretty bad first 50 and a pretty terrible finish,” said Phelps, who rallied from sixth at the turn to finish ahead of Tyler McGill. “But it shows that I can do the kind of event programme like this at a high level again.” McGill was fourth at the turn, but won the battle for second in 51.32 ahead of Ryan Lochte.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 3rd, 2012.
Michael Phelps is headed to the London Olympics with a chance to match his glittering eight-gold haul of 2008. Phelps won the 100m butterfly on the penultimate night of the US Olympic swimming trials yesterday in 51.14 seconds to claim a fifth individual berth for London. Phelps was nowhere near his world record of 49.82 seconds but he was fastest in the world this year. “It was a pretty bad first 50 and a pretty terrible finish,” said Phelps, who rallied from sixth at the turn to finish ahead of Tyler McGill. “But it shows that I can do the kind of event programme like this at a high level again.” McGill was fourth at the turn, but won the battle for second in 51.32 ahead of Ryan Lochte.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 3rd, 2012.