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Bernard rests ghosts

The Telegraph
The blue ribband event of swimming. the 100 metres freestyle, has gone to France for the first time with .Alain Bernard winning the battle of the record breakers with a time of 47.12.0.11 seconds to defeat Australia's Eamon Sullivan.
The pair had broken the world record for the event no fewer than five times with the Frenchman leading3-2.
Sullivan led at the turn but Bernard was level as they surfaced. The pair swam stroke for stroke, neither wanting to settle for second best, but it was the European champion who touched home first for Olympic glory.
Jason Lezak, who swam a brilliant final leg of America's 4x100m freestyle to snatch gold from the grasp of the French quartet, shared the bronze position with Cesar Cielo Filho ofBrazil in 47.67 secs.
The defending champion, Peter van den Hoogenband, finished fourth in 47.75 secs some 0.09 secs faster than he had recorded in Sydney on his way to gold.
Bernard said: "I can't believe it. I know I was feeling down after the relay, but I didn't want to get beaten.
"Today it was not about the silver medal or the world record. It was about touching the wall. ”
Sullivan said of his performance: "I’m very happy I performed so well in my first Olympic final. Unfortunately it was not good enough for the day."
Zige Liu and Liuyang Jiao brought the capacity crowd to its feet when they won gold and silver in the 100m butterfly pushing the world champion and record holder Jessicah Schipper into bronze position.
Liu established a world record of
2m04.18secs finishing 0.54 secs ahead. Jiao was also inside the previous world mark. The defending champion Poland’s Otylia was placed fourth.
This was China's first gold since 1996 when Jingyi Le won the 50m freestyle. It was also their first world record since 1997 when Li Lin and Yan Chen established new marks for the 200 and 400m medley respectively.
Kosuke Kitajima of Japan stamped his name in the annuals of the sport when he became the first man to successfully defend his two Olympic breaststroke titles. The 25-year-old did so in style leading from the dive.
Australia's Brent Rickard was the only one who made any attempt to stay with him but even he could not maintain the pace. Kitajima, who set a world record when retaining his 100m title, was inside his world mark at the three-quarters point of the race.
But that mark slipped as he raced to his second gold but his time of 2.07.64 secs just 0.13 secs outside his best was an Olympic record.
The race for silver and bronze down the final length was between three swimmers with Rickard, silver medallist at last year's World Championships, finishing runner-up.
France's Hugues Duboscq, who was bronze medallist at the European Championships this year, added another bronze when he managed to keep a very fast finishing Mike Brown of Canada at bay.
The women's 4x200m freestyle produced the only world record of the session when Australia stormed home in 7.44.31 secs.
Swimming the lead off leg from Australia was Stephanie Rice winning her third gold of the games. Her other golds came in the 200 and 400m medley. Australia were followed home by China and the USA.
Libby Trickett, the world cham-
pion and record holder for the 100m freestyle, was given a second chance in the semifinal of the event.
Competing in die first semifinal, she touched home fourth in 54.10 secs which, by her standards, was slow. Her best being 52.88 secs.
The second semi, which contained Britain's Fran Halsall, was faster with five swimmers being quicker than the Australians.
But fortunately for her, China's Jiaying Pang, was disqualified for moving before the starting signal
Halsall the 18-year-old from Liverpool, stepped up to win a place in the final. She managed to shrug off last night's disappointment of being in the 4x200m freestyle relay which failed to qualify for the final.
Her time of 53.94 secs was 0.13 secs off the British record she established last Sunday morning when swimming the opening leg of the 4x100m freestyle.
Britain will have another finalist tomorrow morning, this time in the 200m backstroke. Gregor Tait, a finalist four years, ago qualified in sixth place in 1.56.71 secs just 0.05 outside his British record.
Defending champion Aaron Peirsol is the fastest qualifier in 1.55.26 secs. His American teammate Ryan Lochte -with who he shares the world record is the second fastest just 0.14 secs slower.
Today was a day without a medal for Michael Phelps, but he was in action in the semifinal of the 200m medley, winning his semifinal in 1.57.70 secs, just one hundredth slower than his teammate Ryan Lochte recorded to win the second semifinal.
The British duo of James Goddard, the national record holder, and Tancock will swim in the final having recorded times of 1.58.63 secs and 1.59.42 secs respectively.
If they are to have any chance of a podium place they will have to be better them their best.