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It may have been Michael Phelps’s 27th birthday, but it was the sellout crowd of 14,335 at Omaha’s CenturyLink Center that got a treat on Saturday. In another head-to-head race with Ryan Lochte that delivered suspense and goosebumps?are there two other athletes anywhere who so reliably deliver on their hype??Phelps won the Olympic trials 200-meter individual medley, touching the wall in a world’s best time of 1:54.84, nine one-hundredths of a second ahead of Lochte and nearly four seconds ahead of third-place Conor Dwyer. For those keeping score at home, that gives Phelps two close wins to Lochte’s one in their three head-to-head matchups here so far.
“It feels good to be back on that side,” said Phelps, who finished second when Lochte set the world record in the 200 IM at the World Championships in Shanghai last summer. “But I’m sure that’s not going to be the end of us going back and forth.”
As gutty as Phelps’ win was, there’s no question Lochte had the more impressive performance of the night. In the space of an hour he won the 200 backstroke, holding off a hard-charging Tyler Clary to win by less than half a second; he nearly beat Phelps in the 200 IM, and he qualified 6th for the finals of the 100 butterfly, an event he rarely contests. Even Phelps, who has had his share of overloaded schedules over the years, was impressed. “He’s tough,” he said. “You saw that tonight. He got up and raced three very challenging races and did them well.”
But not without cost. “Tonight was probably the most pain I’ve endured in a swimming competition,” said Lochte. “Going back-to-back-to-back was definitely hard, but I was up for the challenge. It’s something I’ve been training for the last four years so I knew I was able to do it.”
A significant part of Lochte’s training has been weight work, both the Strongman version, where he flips tractor tires, heaves beer kegs in the air and whips heavy ropes, and more traditional power circuits that include squats and Olympic lifts like cleans and snatches and jerks. “Basically everything is designed to make him a better jumper because jumping is highly correlated to better starts, better walls and a great streamlined dolphin kick,” says Matt Delancey, Lochte’s strength coach at Florida.
Lochte, who has no peers aside from Phelps as an underwater kicker, has made a signature of the third wall in 200 meter races. That’s where he explodes off the wall and dolphin kicks underwater for about 15 meters, usually popping up ahead of the field if he wasn’t there already. In the 200 backstroke, the third wall is where he caught Clary, who had been leading at the first two turns.
“I think underwaters are all about pain tolerance,” says Delancey. “Think about holding your breath; it doesn’t feel good. You have to have a real huge lung capacity and you have to have a real considerable pain tolerance to swim, hold your breath that long underwater and then come up and still swim fast. That’s something Ryan has a lot of, the ability to endure. Of all the athletes I’ve ever seen or trained, Ryan is number one in pain tolerance.”
The 200 IM, coming so quickly after the 200 back, had to hurt. Showing no mercy for his still recovering rival, Phelps set a punishing pace in the butterfly leg. “I kind of used Ryan having the 200 back before,” said Phelps, looking not the least bit remorseful. “I set the pace early. I know the 200 back longcourse is really tough race, and it takes a lot out of your legs. I wanted to try to jump on it the first 100 and see what happened, but I think our backstroke we let off a little bit. We were playing the cat-and-mouse game again. The last lap we raced like crazy.”
Just like the 200 freestyle race earlier this week, the two matched strokes the whole way. Though Phelps led throughout, it was never by much: his cushion was .02 after the backstroke, .26 after the breaststroke and just .09 in the end, the closest men’s 200 IM finish in trials history. “I think you’re going to see some more races like that over the next few weeks,” said Phelps. “We kind of seem to like to play with each other, if one person goes, the other one goes.
Lochte’s decision to swim the 100 fly was surprising, especially given what else was on his plate Saturday evening. But it’s a boon to the crowd that will flock here Sunday night. The Phelps-Lochte showdown will continue for one more night. Though he qualified 6th, 1.12 seconds behind Phelps, the two-time Olympic champ and current world record holder, Lochte isn’t swimming the finals tomorrow as a lark. “I’m going up there to win it,” he said. “My legs will be a little bit rested and hopefully I can put a better show than I did tonight.”
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Allyson Felix ran a lifetime-best 21.69 seconds in the 200-meter final on a rain-soaked track Saturday night in the U.S. Olympic trials. She easily pulled away, no signs of the stress from the last week weighing her down.
Still to be determined is whether she’ll be competing in the 100 after finishing in a third-place tie with training partner Jeneba Tarmoh last Saturday. They might have a runoff – a winner-take-all race – or flip a coin to decide the final spot for the London Games in the event.
Another option is Felix simply surrendering her spot to Tarmoh, because she’s already going in the 200 and Tarmoh isn’t after finishing a distant fifth.
A resolution is likely to come Sunday.
On this night, the Felix had the stage to herself.
Wearing neon yellow compression sleeves on her legs, Felix was easy to spot as she settled into the blocks. She was even easier to detect once she flew off the starting line, jumping out to a commanding lead. Felix smiled as she crossed the finish line and clapped her hands before raising them high over her head.
Whew. She was in.
”I knew she was going to be fast,” her coach Bobby Kersee said. ”But I didn’t know she was going to roll out like this. That was very, very impressive.”
Carmelita Jeter finished 0.42 seconds behind and Sanya Richards-Ross even farther back in third to round out the London-bound team. No matter, it’s still a double for both of them as Jeter also won the 100 and Richards-Ross captured the 400.
”My coach really didn’t want me to run, because I caught a little cramp after the100,” Jeter said. ”I’m sure everybody is a little relaxed now.”
Kersee told The Associated Press that Sunday morning he and his two athletes, Felix and Tarmoh, will sit down for breakfast and reach a decision.
Felix’s run was one for the ages as she turned in the fourth-fastest time ever by an American and best since Marion Jones nearly 14 years ago. The late Florence Griffith-Joyner had the other two, including the world record of 21.34.
”I just tried to keep digging and keep going,” said Felix, whose previous best time was 21.81. ”It’s all a blur now.”
She was every bit a blur on the track – unlike the decision process for the 100.
In a race that’s usually over in 11 seconds, the outcome has lingered on for more than 168 hours.
It’s become the cloud over the trials – even more than the constant rain – because USA Track and Field had no protocol in place to deal with this sort of dead heat. USATF officials quickly scrambled to adopt a tiebreaking procedure.
The organization has been criticized for not having something in place long before the trials. Every other sport has some sort of carefully worked-out plan. In swimming, there’s swim-offs to break a deadlock.
After six taxing rounds, Felix and Tarmoh will now turn their attention to breaking this tie. They have until the end of trials Sunday to officially make a decision, but there may be some wiggle room. The United States Olympic Committee doesn’t officially need the list of names for the squad until Tuesday.
That’s why Kersee, has been pushing for a Tuesday runoff race, if that’s how Felix and Tarmoh want to settle things.
This way, when they step back on the track, they’ll at least have fresh legs.
As it is, both are eligible to be selected to the Olympic 400 relay team.
The magnitude of the controversy has spread far beyond traditional sports circles, with the topic being discussed on ”CNN” and even National Public Radio.
Former sprinter Jon Drummond thinks the attention is fantastic.
”You’ve got two great athletes at the Olympic trials, dead-heated, both pictures showing the same thing and now you have to decide a selection?” said Drummond, who coaches the men’s and women’s relay teams. ”This is like a reality show you couldn’t script. This is great for TV, made for TV.”
Especially if they decide to participate in a runoff. Drummond would.
”I’m a junkyard dog. We’re going to the line,” he said.
Because of all the attention, these two sprinters will forever have a place in track lore. Felix is a familiar name to even average fans.
On the track, Felix runs so effortlessly – her head hardly moving and her hands in perfect rhythm.
She’s a 200-meter specialist, winning silver medals in the last two Olympics. She wants gold, though, and her entire training routine is built around making that happen.
”I’ve had eight years to think about being a silver medalist. This time I want to win,” she recently said in an interview.
Fans are quickly learning about the 22-year-old Tarmoh, who burst on the scene last season when she finished third in the 200 at U.S. championships to earn a spot on the team bound for South Korea.
”We have a great relationship and I’m so proud of her,” Felix said. ”She came out of college and I really wanted her to come and train with us.
”The way she performed at this championship is just phenomenal.”
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