“Tonight was a race to get in to tomorrow, that’s all,” said Phelps. “I tried to conserve everything, recover and get out of here so I don’t get too run down. This morning was pretty emotional.”
And another time falls
The United States set a world record in the men’s 400-metre freestyle relay preliminaries. The team of Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner and Matt Grevers won their heat Sunday in three minutes, 12.23 seconds, erasing the old mark of 3:12.46 set by the United States at the 2006 Pan Pacific championships in Victoria, British Columbia.