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Fri 08 Aug 2008Tiny chink appears in Phelps's armour
SWIMMING:TOMORROW MORNING here, Michael Phelps will be expected to swim to his seventh gold medal of these games when he competes in the 100 metre butterfly final. But last night in the Water Cube he offered just the faintest sign of fallibility.
Phelps was more than one-tenth of a second behind the winning time posted by Serbia's Milorad Cavic and finished second in his heat in that event.
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