Jinan, China: World 50m back champion Zhao Jing clocked 58.96sec to win the 100m at the Chinese National Games today. Gao Chang from east China's Shandong province was second in 59.31 and the bronze medal went to Zhou Xinyan from Shanghai. A record of 525 swimmers from China's 24 provincial teams, Hong Kong, and the Chinese Army are racing at the event. In other events, Qi Hui took the 100m breaststroke crown in a swift 1:05.47 and Zhang Lin claimed his second crown of the meet with a 1:46.12 win in the 200m free.
Australia/US: sprint ace Eamonn Sullivan's latest training camp came to an abrupt end at the weekend when he was rushed into a clinic for an appendectomy. The Olympic silver medallist was attending a high-altitude training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona, when he was taken ill. Surgery went well, according to reports Down Under, and Sullivan will race as planned at the Stockholm, Berlin and Singapore rounds of the World Cup assuming his recovery proceeds as doctors predict.
