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Summer McIntosh was a whisker away from breaking a third world record in under a week at the Canadian Swimming Trials, posting the second-fastest 200m butterfly in history.
The 18-year-old posted a time of 2:02.26 in Tuesday’s race, just fractionally off Liu Zige’s world record of 2:01.81 set back in 2009.
Previously, no swimmer had gotten within a second of Zige’s long-standing mark, which was set just before the ban on super suits and had long been considered untouchable.
McIntosh, who finished more than seven seconds ahead of the swimmer in second, has already set world records in the 400m freestyle and 200m individual…
