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Unstoppable Phelps grabs third gold and third world record.

American super fish Michael Phelps smashed his own world record of the men’s 200-meter freestyle here on Tuesday to increase his gold medal count to three at the Beijing Olympics.

Starting off unusually from Lane 6 as the fourth fastest qualifier for the final, the 23-year-old prodigy met no challenge at all to lead the pool of eight in his own pace.

After the first 50 meters, neither South Korean sensation Park Taewan nor American sprinter Peter Vanderkaay could reach Phelps’ feet as he touched the wall first in one minute 42.96 seconds, shaving 0.9 second off the previous world record.

“I wanted to try and get out into open water and I was in the outside lane so it was kind of difficult for the others to see me,” said Phelps. “I just wanted to get out there and try to hold on. I knew Park was going to have a good last 50 meters, so I tried to start as far ahead as I could in the first 100 to 150 meters.”

Source [ ChinaView ]