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Swimming-Phelps breaks world record in 200 metre medley

Fri Jul 4, 2008 9:01pm EDT

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the 200 metre individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swim trials on Friday clocking a time of one minute, 54.80 seconds. (Reporting by Steve Keating, Editing by Martin Petty) (For more stories visit our multimedia website "Road to Beijing" here; and see our blog at blogs.reuters.com/china) ((For a TAKE A LOOK double click on [nSP39402])) ((martin.petty@thomsonreuters.com, +66 2 648 9707))

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