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Swimming: Biedermann takes 200m free world title, record from Phelps Posted: 29 July 2009 0126 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Paul Biedermann (L) and Michael Phelps ®competing during the men's 200m freestyle final ROME : Germany's Paul Biedermann handed Michael Phelps his first major international defeat since 2005 on Tuesday, winning the 200m freestyle world title in a world record of 1min 42.00sec. Biedermann broke the world record of 1:42.96 set by Phelps in winning Olympic gold at the Beijing Olympics last August 12. Phelps was second in 1:43.22. Phelps, who claimed an unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals in Beijing to take his career total to 14, hadn't been beaten in individual world or Olympic competition since losing to Ian Crocker in the 100m fly at the 2005 Worlds in Montreal. He was 10-for-10 since then, winning five individual events at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne and five in Beijing. Biedermann's performance followed his 400m freestyle triumph, in which he erased the iconic world record set by Australian Ian Thorpe in 2002. The German acknowledged after that race that he believed his high-tech bodysuit made a difference of some two seconds for him in the 400m free. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../445287/1/.html

Since there are some who do not mind buying foreign sportsmen/women to represent Singapore, then perhaps we should get Michael Phelps to represent Singapore. This thread is for these forummers to brainstorm on the ways to get michael to come over... This guy won 8...EIGHT.... gold medals in ONE (1) olympic games. IN THE PROCESS OF WINNING THE EIGHT (8) GOLD MEDALS....HE SET SEVEN (7) WORLD RECORDS AND ONE (1) OYLMPIC RECORD If want to buy talents...then may as well buy the best people around....so that there's more bang for the buck!

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now you know why he could break WR and be so far in front of everybody else, already like that since the beginning