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Michael Phelps swam to an easy win in the 400-yard individual medley open event Friday at the Maryland Swimming Championship Meet at the Naval Academy. Phelps posted a time of 3 minutes, 39.01 seconds in winning the event, the first of four he plans to compete in during the three-day meet. Phelps' winning time was three seconds off the U.S. short-course record of 3:35.98 in the event. "I'm not happy, not at all," Phelps said. - From Sun staff and news services

The McDonogh girls swimming team needed to battle to keep their championship streak alive in Sunday's Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland title meet at UMBC. St. Paul's, however, didn't have to work nearly as hard to win its first crown. McDonogh won its eighth consecutive A Conference team title, edging Notre Dame Prep by five points. The St. Paul's girls won seven of the 11 events and rolled to the school's first team championship in the B Conference competition. The A Conference battle went down to the final event, but McDonogh (425)

Olympians Michael Phelps of Fells Point and Katie Hoff of Towson won 400-yard individual medleys on Sunday night at the Southern California Grand Prix. Phelps finished in 3 minutes, 38.42 seconds, about a second behind his preliminary time but well ahead of second-place finisher Hidemasa Sano, who touched in 3:39.63. Todd Patrick was third in 3:45.54 at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. Phelps won the 500-yard freestyle on Saturday as he continues getting back in competition shape.

Sporting a beard and an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps of Baltimore finished third in the 100-meter medley at a World Cup short-course meet in Stockholm, Sweden, after missing out on two other finals Tuesday. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, swam the medley final in 52.14 seconds. South Africa's Gerhard Zandberg won in 51.77. Earlier Tuesday, Phelps, 24, failed to qualify for the finals of the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke, in which he was disqualified for swimming too long under water.

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BEIJING - Michael Phelps' coach, Bob Bowman, has an expression he likes to use when his swimmers are exhausted, their muscles are burning and their painful workouts are not yet complete: Keep putting money in the bank. Sacrifice now, the phrase implies, and you'll be able to make a withdrawal later, when needed during competition. The 23-year-old swimmer from Rodgers Forge has heard it hundreds, perhaps thousands, of times over the years. "I guess I put a lot of money in the bank over the last four years, and we went through pretty much every penny," Phelps said yesterday, just hours after winning his eighth gold medal, wrapping up the most dominating Olympic performance in history.

Olympics Various events 8 p.m. [NBC]: The Michael Phelps show continues tonight as the American swimmer goes for his sixth gold medal in Beijing in the 200-meter individual medley. Women's gymnastics continue with the individual all-around.