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Wait worth in gold

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As Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett can testify, four years is a long to wait, but like the Australian pair, for Italian freestyler Federica Pellegrini the wait was well and truly worthwhile.
Like Jones and Trickett, the 20-year-old has made amends for Athens by today winning Olympic gold with a brilliant swim in the 200m freestyle final.
In Greece in 2004, then an inexperienced 16-year-old, Pellegrini had to be satisfied with silver in the 200m freestyle behind Romanian Camelia Potec, but four years on and with now a wealth of experience behind her, she in an Olympic champion.
And just for good measure, Pellegrini managed to carve 0.63s from, the previous world record, a time she set herself in the heats back on Monday night.
The Italian took gold in a time of 1 min 54.82.
But Pellegrini didn't have everything her own way as she had to battle to the wall, just out-touching Slovenia Sara Isakovic (lmin.54.97s), with local fans delighted when China's Pang Jiaying (lmin.55.05s) collected the bronze medal.
"It's amazing. It's the first medal for Slovenia swimming," said Isakovic.
"It's great for my country, and it's a fantastic time. I never expected it in my wildest dreams. I'm going to celebrate with my family and the rest of my team."
For American Katie Hoff, tipped to be the female version of Michael
Phelps in Beijing with her vast range of events and medal prospects, it was more disappointment, finishing in fourth place this time.
Hoff won bronze in the 400m individual medley and silver in the 400m freestyle earlier this week, and was tipped to win a medal in the 200m freestyle, but she couldn't hold quite catch the placegetters.
"I would have liked a medal but I got my first personal best of the meet and I think that's a good effort," Hoff said.
"I can’t be upset with that and I'm just moving on to the next event.”
Australia's finalist in the event, Bronte Barratt, finished in seventh position in a time of lmin.57.83s, disappointingly slower than her semifinal time yesterday, and more than a second off her Australia record set back in March at the Olympic selection trials.