Michael Phelps competes in the men's 200m IM final, during the Phillips 66 National Championships at the Northside Swim Center in San Antonio. PHOTO: AFP
The 18-time Olympic gold medallist electrified the crowd by hitting the 150m mark under world record pace en route to a dominant victory in 1min 54.75sec.
“I’m pumped,” said Phelps. “I’m very, very pleased to be able to do that right now and it’s something great to build on.”
Although he faded on the final freestyle leg to finish outside the world record of 1min 54sec set by US teammate Ryan Lochte in 2011, he was more than a second faster than the 1 min 55.81sec Lochte produced to win the world title in Kazan, Russia, this week.
Phelps lost his world championships berth as part of the sanctions for his drunk-driving arrest last September.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 11th, 2015.
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