For the 100-meter contest, which took place in the frigid waters off Mossel Bay in South Africa, Phelps wriggled into a 1-millimeter wetsuit and wore a mono-fin specially designed for the event.
Mark Ruiz scored a perfect 10.0 on his last dive yesterday, ending a 10-meter platform contest in which he led throughout the six-dive final to clinch a second Olympic berth in the Olympic diving trials in Federal Way, Wash.
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At the opposite end of the spectrum are the marathoners, who will run in the Prix du Cadran, a Group 1 contest at 4,000 meters.
Last week he and Maurice Greene, the gold-medal winner in the 100-meter dash, restaged their Sydney contest in a New York sports bar using the ESPN International Track & Field game, which features the likenesses of both runners.
To enter the contest, he must finish the 500-meter race, his best event, in 40 seconds or less.
No one any longer seriously questions the length of the meter in ordinary use, any more than anyone contests the biological meaning of sperm or stegosaurus, systolic blood pressure, or sickle cell anemia.
(The creator of "House Rules," Joelle De Jesus of Hollywood, won $25,000 in the contest; that spot came in 11th in the Ad Meter).
This year's Doritos contest winner also topped the USA Today Superbowl ad meter, beating out big-name agencies for the first time since the ad meter's launch in 1989.
As was the case in the 400-meter individual medley, Phelps's first individual event, it was no contest.
