Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte headline world swim championships - Kelli Anderson - SI.com
• Men's 200 freestyle, Tuesday, July 26
Even without former world-record holder Ian Thorpe, the Aussie superstar who came out of retirement too late to make the Worlds (look for him in London), this may be the most loaded field in the meet. There'll be Lochte, who won this event at the Pan Pacific Championships last August, as well as South Korea's Park Tae-Hwan, the silver medalist in Beijing, and China's teen phenom, Sun Yang, who has the fastest time in the world this year. Also in the mix will be Phelps, who won this event with a world record in Beijing, and Paul Biedermann, the unheralded German who beat Phelps and his record at the 2009 Worlds while wearing a now-illegal polyurethane suit. That prompted Phelps' coach, Bob Bowman, to threaten to pull his swimmer from future international events if FINA didn't address the buoyancy suit issue. (FINA banned the suits in 2010.)Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/kelli_anderson/07/22/swimming.worlds.preview/index.html#ixzz1SrGP95oe
• Men's 200 IM, Thursday, July 28
After 17 failed attempts over seven years, Lochte finally beat Phelps head-to- head in a major 200 IM race, at last year's Pan Pacs (actually it was Nationals), nearly eclipsing his own world record -- one of the 43 set in Rome the previous year -- in the process (he nearly broke the world record at Pan Pacs, but Phelps didn't swim in that race). In Shanghai, he'll have the opportunity to reaffirm his supremacy, but Phelps isn't the only one he'll have to fend off: Watch for 2008 silver medalist Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Brazil's Thiago Pereira, who beat Lochte in the 200 IM and 400 IM at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in June.Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/kelli_anderson/07/22/swimming.worlds.preview/index.html#ixzz1SrGWanU4
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