Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Tony Carroll.
Chase Kalisz ran down Andrew Seliskar and Gunnar Bentz to sneak in for the win in the men’s 200 butterfly. Kalisz reached in for a final time of 1:57.58. Seliskar picked up a second place finish with a 1:57.70. Both Kalisz and Seliskar managed to pull ahead of the field on the final 50. Third place went to Jack Conger with his time of 1:58.23.
Gunna Bentz had a great first half, but couldn’t hold on with the other two down the stretch. He finished fourth with a 1:58.38. Ioannis Drymonakos and Tyler Clary finished fifth and sixth with 1:59’s, while Michael Phelps and Mick Litherland finished seventh and eighth.
Michael Phelps looked as if he was was dying a slow and painful death with 75 meters to go. He joked that the piano fell on his back at the 175 during his morning swim, and it was obvious that he was feeling the piano again tonight. He was seventh with a final time of 2:00.17, which was just off his time from this morning.
