INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) — Michael Phelps was back in the water for light training on Saturday, a day after a sore neck prompted him to pull out of the 100m freestyle at the US swimming championships.
Opting out of the 100m free heats cost the 14-time Olympic gold medallist a chance to swim the event at the World Championships in Rome later this month.
But he and coach Bob Bowman felt it was more important not to take any chances with Phelps already qualified to swim the 100m and 200m butterfly and 200m freestyle at Worlds. Phelps, who won eight gold medals at last year's Beijing Olympics, will also almost certainly swim three relays in Rome.
Bowman said Phelps was at about "90 percent," and put in a "light workout" of about 4,000 yards.
Phelps woke with a stiff neck on Thursday, but swam through it to claim the 100m butterfly world record he had long coveted with a time of 50.22sec.
Eric Shanteau promised some fireworks for the final evening session of the trials when he posted an American record of 2min 08.43sec in the heats of the 200m breaststroke.
Ryan Lochte, the 200m backstroke world record-holder, was due to face off against former world record-holder Aaron Peirsol in that final, but it was Tyler Clary who notched the fastest qualifying time of 1:55.37.
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