Swimming: Phelps eyes another eight in London

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 3^rd, 2012.