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Another Phelps miss

AFP, Stockholm
US superstar Michael Phelps, shunning the high-tech swimsuit, said he knew landing shortcourse World Cup titles in Stockholm would likely prove beyond him as a result — but still came within an ace of pocketing the 200 metres individual medley on Wednesday.
South African Darian Townsend hogged the glory in the end, taking the title in 1:51.79 but Phelps came in second in 1:53.93 to leave Lithuanian Vytautas Janusaitis with bronze in 1:54.34.
Returning to competition for the first time since the world championships in Rome in July, eight-time Olympic champion Phelps is up against it here after choosing to revert to conventional kit in anticipation of the F1NA ban on high-tech swimsuits which will take effect at the start of next year.
Most swimmers in Stockholm are still wearing the performance-enhancing gear, but a tew, Phelps included, have gone back to basic trunks in anticipation of the switch.
So a podium of any kind was abonus.
"I knew yesterday and today that this wasn't gonna be the best meet, but every now and then we need a wake up call," said Phelps.
"With me not being consistent in training, this sure is a wake-up call. I don't wanna swim just OK, I want to swim better than okay.”
After missing out on the 100m butterfly final, Phelps came through the 200m medley heats stylishly but admitted that "there's still a lot of work to be done.
"The number one important thing is consistency. I don't have it. I don't have it right now. So I'm gonna work on iL It's fine. (Coachl Bob (Bowman) can do that for me."
Backed by Swedish fans who acclaimed him as if one of their own, Phelps did pushTownsend hard as he went from third after the butterfly section to second follbwing the two backstroke lengths and after a hard-fought breaststroke section the South African just clinched it with a push in the final freestyle length.
On Tuesday, Phelps made only one final out of the three races he contested, taking third place in the 100m individual medley.
In reaching the final of the 200m individual medley Phelps posted the second fastest time of 1 minute 56.09 seconds, behind only the 1:55.09 of Sweden's Simon Sjodin, who was wearing a high-tech bodysuit.
The Stockholm meeting is the first time that Phelps has taken part in a short-course event since 2006 and the first time in Europe since 2001.
Records tumbled included the women's shortcourse 50m butterfly, where Sweden's Therese Alshammar cheered the home crowd in setting a new world record of 24.46sec, beating her own previous mark of 24.75sec set last month in Durban.