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REPORTING FROM ... THE U.S. SWIMMING TRIALS IN OMAHA

By Eric Adelson

Thursday, July 3, 2008

A 20-year-old swimmer named Chris Brady snuck into the Olympic trials with a 51.96 in the 100-meter freestyle. Wednesday morning, in the very first heat of the day, he clocked a 50.01, lowering his all-time mark by nearly two full seconds. A few minutes later, Jason Lezak broke the American record in the same event. In the following heat, Garrett Weber-Gale broke that new record and set his own. Then Michael Phelps dove into the pool and nearly broke Weber-Gale's mark. This all happened not in ...

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