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Phelps has another chance

AFP, Athens
Michael Phelps may not be able to match the seven gold medals won by Mark Spitz at one Olympics but he can still emulate his US idol when he bids for his final individual Games gold in the men's 100m butterfly, which gets underway on Thursday.
If 19-year-old Phelps adds the 100m fly title to the 200m fly gold he won earlier in the week he would become just the third man to hold both titles, including Spitz who achieved the double in 1972.
Russian Denis Pankratov last achieved the feat in 1996 in Atlanta.
American Ian Crocker, tipped as one of the few swimmers with a chance to stop the Phelps goldrush here, has struggled so far in the Games, failing to make it out of the 100m freestyle heats on Tuesday.
Crocker finished tied for 17th in the 100m free heats, two days after a
dismal outing in leading off America's bronze medal-winning 4x100m freestyle relay.
But the 21-year-old from Maine insists his performance in the freestyle was no indicator of how he would fare in his preferred event, in which he has the multi-talented Phelps breathing down his neck.
Phelps, the 200m butterfly world record holder, traded 100m world records with Crocker at the World Championships in Barcelona last year.
Crocker emerged with the title and the world record, a triumph he repeated at the US trials last month as he lowered his own world mark.
"I'm getting better. My freestyle has no bearing on my butterfly," Crocker insisted. "I'm trying to put it all behind me and focus on my other races."
US men's coach Eddie Reese said after watching the relay performance that Crocker had been ill, and they had not wanted to give him antibiotics as they were afraid that it would effect his overall performance.
"In warm-up he looks good," said Reese.
While Phelps's shot at matching
Spitz's 1972 record of seven Olympic swimming titles ended with bronze in the 4x100m free relay and the 200m free, the American could still fall just short with six.
So far he has achieved three gold -the 400m individual medley in world record time, the 200m fly, and 4x200 freestyle relay.
He could also be favourite for the 200m individual medley and gold in the 4x100m medley relay which the United States have never lost at Olympics.
Phelps enters the fly with the second fastest time of 51.10, with Russian Igor Marchenko, the third fastest time, behind Crocker's world record 50.76.
Germany's Thomas Rupprath and Andriy Serdinov of the Ukraine are also expected to challenge for the podium.
Thursday's action also sees qualifiers and semifinals in the men's 50m freestyle, and the women's 800m freestyle and 200m backstroke and finals the women's 200m breaststroke and 100m freestyle and the men's 200m backstroke and 200m individual medley.