100m butterfly - Cavic beats Phelps?

Like Ande's comment Should be interesting tonight; cavic did very well in his heat setting an olympic record 50.76- i am sure that phelps was surprised by cavic's effort, not surprised by cavic swimming his first 50 m fast but cavic has shaved off 1 second off of his second 50m time (27.31)compared to his 2007 world effort in australia (28.28)and his h2h effort against phelps at the swimvitational in omaha in june (28.58). and almost reeled cavic in falling short by about 0.1 seconds; interesting to note phelps swam his fastest ever 2nd 50m in the 100m butterfly heat - chasing cavic (26.46); knowing that he can't let cavic (or crocker who also swims a fast first 50) phelps came out to set a faster first 50 in the semi which he did swimming a 24.24 in the first 50 (he clocked 24.41 in the heat). Phelps first 50m in 100m butterfly time best was 23.99 in 2007 world - so he can go faster in his first 50. More impressively phelps swam the 24.24 time in the semi - just after setting a world record in the 200 IM 45 minutes earlier putting the two legs together first 50 from the semi 24.24 and 2nd 50 from the heat 26.46 and you have a 50.70 - better than cavic phelps has shown that he saves his best for the finals as he has had to pace himself all week - he had his longest rest time over the last 24 hours and was able to skip out on the 4 x100 IM relay heats for further rest(interestingly crocker took part in the prelim relay); I think Phelps starts very fast and dares and anyone to stay with him. crocker will likely swim better than he has in the first two heats but crocker has less rest now and phelps has bested crocker 3 times already this year unless crocker was really sandbagging in the heat, and semi Prediction: Gold: Phelps 50.26 WR

Like Ande's comment Should be interesting tonight; cavic did very well in his heat setting an olympic record 50.76- i am sure that phelps was surprised by cavic's effort, not surprised by cavic swimming his first 50 m fast but cavic has shaved off 1 second off of his second 50m time (27.31)compared to his 2007 world effort in australia (28.28)and his h2h effort against phelps at the swimvitational in omaha in june (28.58). and almost reeled cavic in falling short by about 0.1 seconds; interesting to note phelps swam his fastest ever 2nd 50m in the 100m butterfly heat - chasing cavic (26.46); knowing that he can't let cavic (or crocker who also swims a fast first 50) phelps came out to set a faster first 50 in the semi which he did swimming a 24.24 in the first 50 (he clocked 24.41 in the heat). Phelps first 50m in 100m butterfly time best was 23.99 in 2007 world - so he can go faster in his first 50. More impressively phelps swam the 24.24 time in the semi - just after setting a world record in the 200 IM 45 minutes earlier putting the two legs together first 50 from the semi 24.24 and 2nd 50 from the heat 26.46 and you have a 50.70 - better than cavic phelps has shown that he saves his best for the finals as he has had to pace himself all week - he had his longest rest time over the last 24 hours and was able to skip out on the 4 x100 IM relay heats for further rest(interestingly crocker took part in the prelim relay); I think Phelps starts very fast and dares and anyone to stay with him. crocker will likely swim better than he has in the first two heats but crocker has less rest now and phelps has bested crocker 3 times already this year unless crocker was really sandbagging in the heat, and semi Prediction: Gold: Phelps 50.26 WR