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Phelps tunes up well

Peirsol breaks 100m backstroke WR

AFP, Indianapolis
Michael Phelps booked two World Championship berths Wednesday, but his victories in the 200m freestyle and 200m butterfly at the US trials left the Olympic swim star hungry for more.
Phelps, who won both events in world record times as part of his eight-gold haul at the Beijing Games, couldn't help a twinge of disappointment that he couldn't match or improve his best times, even after his lengthy postBeijingbreak.
"That was the thing coming in here we wanted - we wanted to make the World Championship team,'' Phelps said. "I'm happy with where I am all things considered, but I'm really happy with a best time.
"I'm not used to not doing a best time when I shave and taper. "
Aaron Peirsol got just what he wanted - a World Championship berth and his world record back in the 100m backstroke with a time of51.94sec.
Peirsol, winner of Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 and Beijing, had held the record since 2004 before Spain's Aschwin Wildeboer Faber lowered the mark to 52.38 at the Mediterranean Games on July 1.
"That was very good, I’m very happy with that," Peirsol said. "That's the best I ve felt probably in a few years."
Olympic silver medallist Matt Grevers, who led Peirsol by a narrow margin at the turn, settled for second in 53.11.
But the spotlight was on Phelps, who still has the 100m fly on Thursday and the 100m freestyle on Friday.
Phelps's time of Imin 52.76sec in the 200m fly was good enough to fend off the tenacious challenge of Tyler Clary, who was second in
1:53.64.
"That was one of the greatest swims I've ever done," Clary said. "It was pretty cool. I could see out of the corner of my eye. I was with him at 150 and just being with him was awesome."
An hour earlier Phelps had set the tone with a victory in the 200m free, winning in 1:44.23.
He led at the final turn, and when David Walters, swimming next to him, pressed early on the final lap Phelps pulled away for the win, leavingWalters second in 1:44.95.
"It's good to have races like that. It's good to have tight races, it makes it more exciting," Phelps said.
Walters booked his first shot at an individual international gold in Rome after appearances in relay preliminaries at Beijing and the 2007 World Championships.
In other races, Dana Vollmer won the women's 200m freestyle in 56.20 ahead of Allison Schmitt (1:57.25), while American record-holder Katie Hoff finished eighth in the event she had reckoned offered her best chance for a trip to Rome.
Hoff, the Olympic silver medallist in the 400m free, had already missed out in that event and has only the 100m free remaining on her schedule here.
Hayley McGregory made up for past disappointments with a victory in the 100m backstroke that sealed her spot on the world team.
McGregory won in 1:00.07, ahead of 15-year-old Elizabeth Pelton.
Pelton clocked 1:00.66 to earn her second runner-up finish of the meet after her second-placed finish in the 200m medley on Tuesday.
McGregory was squeezed out of an Olympic berth last year, despite setting a 100m backstroke world record in the preliminaries of the trials at Omaha. Minutes after she set the record, Natalie Coughlin reclaimed it in the next heat, and McGregory was then shut out of the top two places in the finals.