Phelps propels US to mammoth lead
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December 20, 2009, Sunday
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MICHAEL Phelps celebrated his first appearance in a British pool on Friday by helping the United States to a commanding 89-33 lead over a European team on the first day of the Duel in the Pool meeting in Manchester.
The Americans raced to a 14-0 lead after the men's and women's 4x100 meters medley relays in the opening races of the two-day meeting with both teams breaking the previous world short-course records.
Nick Thoman gave the American men a perfect start with an individual world backstroke mark of 48.94 seconds while Phelps swam the butterfly leg.
Phelps, who won a record eight golds at last year's Beijing Olympics, won the individual 100 butterfly by 500ths of a second from Benjamin Starke after the German had led at the 50-meter mark. He finished third in the 100 freestyle.
In the latter race he was the only man wearing the textile shorts which will be mandatory from January 1.
American Olympic champion Rebecca Soni set a world record of two minutes 14.57 in the women's 200 breaststroke and her teammate Julia Smit clocked another world mark of 4:21.04 in the women's 400 individual medley.
Although the European women did better than the men's team, Britain's double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington was well beaten by Alison Schmitt in the 400 freestyle.
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