It's Day 8 at the Water Cube!
Michael Phelps is going for his 7th Gold today!
Lane 1 (GBR) Elizabeth Simmonds
Lane (USA) Margaret Hoelzer|
Lane 3 (AUS) Meagan Nay
Lane 4 (ZIM) Kirsty Coventry
Lane 5 (USA) Elizabeth Beisel
Lane 6 (JPN) Reiko Nakamura
Lane 7 (AUS) Belinda Hocking
Lane 8 (RUS) Anatasia Zueva
It's the finals of the Women's 200m Backstroke
And they're off!
Current world record...2:06:09
At the 50m mark: Coventry, Hoelzer, Simmonds
At the 100m mark: Coventry, Hoelzer, Simmonds
At the 150m mark: Coventry is way out in front, followed by Hoelzer and Nakamura
On world record pace!
And the Gold goes to...
Coventry!
New world record: 2:05:24!
Silver goes to Hoelzer...and Bronze to Nakamura.
Now it's time for Michael Phelps to go for 7...
It's time for the final of the Men's 100m Butterfly
Lane 1 (JPN) Takuro Fujii
Lane 2 (KEN) Jason Dunford
Lane 3 (AUS) Andrew Lauterstein
Lane 4 (SRB) Milorad Cavic
Lane 5 (USA) Michael Phelps
Lane 6 (USA) Ian Crocker
Lane 7 (UKR) Andrii Serdinov
Lane 8 (PNG) Ryan Pini
There's a swimmer in this from both Kenya AND Papua New Guinea!
Phelps' main competition is Crocker.
And| they're off!
At the 50: Cavic, Crocker and Serdinov
At the finish...
PHELPS does it again!
He came from behind in the last 5 metres to take the race.
Amazing job by an amazing competitor...and he's now tied with Mark Spitz
Silver went to Cavic and Bronze to Lauerstein!
Phelps won by .01 seconds!
The crowd loves this guy...no matter their country affiliation!
He really worked for this one, folks...more then any of his other wins of the competition.
News break and then we're back to the Cube for more.
The Men's 50m Freestyle will be the next event.
PollyPrissyPants
Jonathan Keebler
Copyright 2012 Scribble Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved.
