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Sullivan simply sizzles

SYDNEY: Twice in two nights: Eamon Sullivan broke his own 24-hour-old world record in the 50m freestyle on Friday at the Australian swimming championships and Olympic trials.

It was the fourth time in the past six weeks that the record has been broken after Russian Alexander Popov’s record had stood for nearly eight years. The 22-year-old Sullivan has improved on it for the third time in that span.

Sullivan clocked a time of 21.28 seconds in the final on Friday, where he had lowered the mark to 21.41 in the semifinals on Thursday.

That mark had broken France’s Alain Bernard’s time of 21.50 set at the European championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands last weekend. Bernard had broken Sullivan’s previous mark of 21.56 set on February 17 at the New South Wales Open in the same Sydney pool. — AP

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