SPORTS RADIO ESPN 1420 » London http://espn1420.com Sat, 25 May 2013 15:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Phelps Nearly Fails to Qualify for 400 IM Final http://espn1420.com/phelps-nearly-fails-to-qualify-for-400-im-final/ http://espn1420.com/phelps-nearly-fails-to-qualify-for-400-im-final/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:25:29 +0000 Jay Walker http://espn1420.com/?p=82605 It's not unusual for swimmers to not swim their best in preliminaries, saving their strength for the finals.

But, for Michael Phelps, that strategy was nearly very, very costly.

Phelps was the slowest of those who

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