Phelps Shatters 200-meter Butterfly World Record

Michael Phelps broke a second world record in 24 hours to collect his third gold medal at the world swimming championships on Wednesday. The American won the 200-meter butterfly final in a time of one minute, 52.09 seconds to wipe a massive 1.62 off the previous record of 1:53.71 -- which he set in Columbia, Missouri last month. (WCSN, WCSN.com)

Comments

1. Hi I'm from the internet and I'm here to criticize his form and let you know that this is easy.
2. I'm trash my 50 butterfly is 44.13 seconds xD
3. Simplemente el mejor
4. That's my 200 free time...
5. phelps is cheating, you can clearly see how the world record line is pushing against his feet ;)
6. some say he has gills hidden under his cap, and that he was raised by dolphins
7. That, my friend, is why I am not a butterfly swimmer and never will even try to be one at all
8. holy...
9. So good
10. Phelps is a fish.
11. yes, but the distance is also 7.5x longer. by that logic, sun yang would have to be 7.5 body lengths ahead of the world record to proportionally equal phelps's swim
12. :) i didn't resort to name calling on youtube!
13. True dat.
14. yeh, but at that distance, 2-3 seconds doesn't mean much for 2 reasons. 1) the speed at which your moving(phelps is covering more ground in 1-3 seconds than Sun) 2) everyone else's position is so straggered, so you can see how milliseconds make the difference between phelps winning gold and him getting last place whereas that's not the case for a 1500m swim.
15. Sun Yang was about 2-3 body lengths in front of the world record line in the 1500 freestyle in london 2012 finals.
16. thats 6 seconds faster than my 200 free time in shortcourse!
17. Lol awesome comment
18. I love how he takes a second and a half off the old world record, which was set only ONE MONTH before, by him himself.
19. what the hell 0:35 to 0:37 is amazing.
20. and yamaguchi came