By John Lohn<\/p>\n
BEIJING, China, August 13. ADD another title to Michael Phelps' already glowing portfolio. He's now the Olympic-record holder for most gold medals in history. Hey, it's just another day at the office for a man who is the most dominant athlete in the world, and that includes bettering that golfer currently recovering from knee surgery.<\/p>\n
Cranking out his fourth world record of the competition, and the 25th individual world mark of his career, Phelps covered the 200 butterfly in 1:52.03, just below his global standard of 1:52.09, set at last year's World Championships in Melbourne. The gold complemented earlier triumphs in the 400 individual medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
Racing the event that made him a 15-year-old Olympian in Sydney in 2000, Phelps was second at the 50-meter mark, then took the lead and roared to his latest title. Phelps was 25.36 at the 50, 53.53 at the 100 and 1:22.75 at the 150. The 200 fly was the first of two events in the session for Phelps, along with the 800 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
It was Phelps' 10th gold medal of his Olympic career, setting the record in that category. It was also Phelps' 12th overall medal.<\/p>\n
"I couldn't see anything for the last 100. My goggles pretty much filled up with water," Phelps said. "It just kept getting worse and worse through the race and I was having trouble seeing the walls to be honest. But it's fine. I wanted to break the record. I wanted to go 1:51 or better, but for the circumstances, I guess it's not too bad."<\/p>\n
For the second time this week, Hungary's Laszlo Cseh was the silver medalist to Phelps. Adding to his hardware from the 400 IM, Cseh popped a European record of 1:52.70 to hold off Japan's Takeshi Matsuda (1:52.97). En route to their medal performances, Cseh and Matsuda became the second and third members of the sub-1:53 club.<\/p>\n
New Zealand's Moss Burmester and China's Wu Peng shared fourth place in 1:54.35, impressive times when compared to any but those managed by the medal winners. Poland's Pawel Korzeniowski was sixth in 1:54.60 and Brazil's Kaio Almeida (1:54.71) and Russian Nikolay Skvortsov (1:55.14) rounded out the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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