RYAN LOCHTE WINS MEDLEY GOLD AS MICHEAL PHELPS FINISHES FOURTH

Ryan Lochte thrashed American compatriot and double Olympic champion Michael Phelps to take 400m individual medley gold.
Phelps, the greatest all-round swimmer his sport has seen and gold medallist in both Athens and Beijing, was left without even a bronze as Brazil's Thiago Pereira took second and Japan's Kosuke Hagino third.
But this was all about Lochte, the brash rising star, seizing ascendancy in buccaneering fashion.
At the US trials this summer, Lochte had won his duel with Phelps by less than a second. In London, his four minutes 05.18 seconds put him almost four seconds clear of his rival, who clocked 4:09.28.
Lochte went off hard and turned off the butterfly leg, supposedly Phelps's strongest, 0.2 seconds in front. That advantage became 2.55 seconds after the backstroke as Hagino came past the struggling champion.