SAN ANTONIO: Michael Phelps showed on Friday (Saturday in Manila) he’s still a formidable force as the Rio Olympics approach, clocking a stunning 1min 52.94sec to win the 200m butterfly at the US swimming championships.

“This next year is going to be pretty damn fun,” a laughing Phelps said after posting the fastest time in the world this year—eclipsing Hungarian Laszlo Cseh’s world championship-winning time of 1:53.48 in Kazan, Russia, this week.

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