Michael Phelps was swimming blind as he raced to Olympic history in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing Games on Wednesday.The American superstar clinched victory in a new world record time of 1min 52.03sec, shaving six-hundredths of a second off his old mark.
However, he might have posted an even more dominant victory over Hungarian Laszlo Cseh and Japan's Takeshi Matsuda but for a glitch with his goggles.
"My goggles started filling up with water. I knew there was nothing I could do, I couldn't rip them off, I couldn't do anything," said the 23-year-old who claimed another gold on Wednesday in the 4x200m freestyle relay to take his Beijing tally to five and his career record to a staggering 11.
The inability to see was a potential disaster for Phelps, whose technical skill on turns is one of his great assets.
"At the end, I really couldn't see," he said. "I was looking for the 'T' on the bottom of the pool. It got to the point where I was counting strokes and hoping I would hit the wall just about right. It was a malfunction, there was nothing I could do."
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