Michael Phelps has made the final of the 400m Individual Medley by just seven hundredths of a second as the first morning of the Olympic programme got under way.
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| Michael Phelps |
RENANG INDONESIA-Phelps, the defending champion, was eighth fastest into tonight's final, edging out Beijing silver medallist Laszlo Cseh in a major surprise.
Phelps and Cseh were alongside each other in the fourth heat but their apparent game of cat and mouse almost proved costly for both.
Phelps touched in 4:13.33, just 0.07 ahead of the Hungarian who won silver behind him three times in Beijing .
However, it was 17-year-old Kosuke Hagino who laid down the gauntlet with a time of 4:10.01 ahead of South Africa 's Chad le Clos and Ryan Lochte, although the world champion was clearly easing off.
Phelps admitted to being taken by surprise and said: 'I didn't expect those guys to go that fast. I just wanted to try to get some good underwater, try to get some good times.
'I think the only thing that matters is really getting a spot in the final.'
Park's disqualification overshadowed Sun Yang's apparently effortless progress into the 400m Freestyle final in 3:45.07.
Elsewhere in the pool, Host Nation hope Hannah Miley booked a place in the final of the 400m women's Individual Medley in 4:34.98.
Men's 400m Individual Medley
Participants - start list
1. Yuya Horihata (4:13.09)
2. Thomas Fraser-Holmes (4:12.66)
3. Ryan Lochte (4:12.35)
4. Kosuke Hagino (4:10.01)
5. Chad le Clos (4:12.24)
6. Thiago Pereira (4:12.39)
7. Luca Marin (4:13.02)
8. Michael Phelps (4:13.33)
Women's 400m Individual Medley
Participants - start list
1. Stephanie Rice (4:35.76)
2. Mireia Garcia Belmonte (4:34.70)
3. Katinka Hosszu (4:33.77)
4. Elizabeth Beisel (4:31.68)
5. Shiwen Ye (4:31.73)
6. Xuanzu Li (4:34.28)
7. Hannah Miley (4:34.98)
8. Caitlin Levenrenz (4:36.09)
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