Fina World Championships
Date: 17 July-2 August (swimming from 26 July) Venue: Rome
Coverage:
Live/highlights on BBC Two, Red Button and BBC Sport website
Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic are on course for a rematch of their Beijing Olympic final after both progressed from the heats of the 100m butterfly.
Phelps won his heat in 50.9 seconds, while Serbia's Cavic won his in 50.56 as Briton Michael Rock also qualified in 51.65.
British pair Gemma Spofforth and Lizzie Simmonds booked their spots in Friday's 200m backstroke semi-finals.
Rebecca Adlington and Joanne Jackson also qualified in the 800m freestyle.
Phelps beat Cavic by a hundredth of a second in Beijing to stay on course for his record haul of eight gold medals - his only win in China which did not also set a new world record.
But Cavic is still convinced he is the faster swimmer and even offered to buy Phelps a new 100% polyurethane suit to make sure there is no controversy over the type of garment worn.
Phelps is contracted to Speedo and is remaining loyal to their outdated LZR suit which is not 100% polyurethane, but the Arena X-Glide, worn by Cavic, and a similar suit by Jaked are considered the fastest at these championships, where 29 world records were set through the first five days.
"If Mike wants an Arena, he just has to say it," Cavic said.
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"If he wants a Jaked and they don't want to give it to him free, I'll buy it for him. He has options. I think in the media it's been portrayed that he has no option, he has to swim for (Speedo). It's a complete lie."
Cavic added: "I think there's three options for Michael.
"The first option is to use the suit that he's wearing, the second option is to get one of these (polyurethane) suits, which I guarantee Arena will provide him within the hour, as soon as he wants.
"The third option would actually be a dream of mine, to have the whole final everybody swimming in briefs. I swear to God, this is it, this is what I want, but this is the most unrealistic of all scenarios."
Phelps, who retained his 200 butterfly crown on Wednesday with a world record, refused to comment but his coach Bob Bowman shrugged off Cavic.
"He's a very good swimmer, a super-talented swimmer and he's free to say whatever he wants," Bowman said. "We know that Michael usually lets his swimming do his talking, and we'll know by (Saturday) night what the deal is."
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe broke the meet record in the 200m backstroke, advancing as the top qualifier at 2:06.72.
Coventry already holds the world record of 2:05.24 and she was nearly a full second ahead of the field in the heats.
Spofforth was second-fastest at 2:07.69, followed by American Elizabeth Beisel (2:07.98), while Simmonds qualified in 2:10.31.
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World record holder Adlington and Jackson were the two fastest swimmers in the 800m freestyle heats in 8:20.53 and 8:20.8 respectively.
Brazil's Cesar Cielo, who won the 100m freestyle on Thursday, was top qualifier in the 50m free with a time of 21.37, beating the meet record of 21.69 set in 2005 by Roland Schoeman. Cielo won gold in the 50m free at Beijing.
Australia's Libby Trickett, whose titles include the 100m butterfly Olympic crown, missed out in the 50m butterfly after clocking the 17th best time.
"It was so fast here. I'm pretty sure my time would have made a final in 2007. I knew this would be the toughest event to get through," said Trickett, who will defend her 100m freestyle title in the final later on Friday.
"I'm a bit upset, but what can you do? Just keep going and move on."
Britons Adam Brown and Simon Burnett failed to qualify from the 50m freestyle heats, while Jemma Lowe and Ellen Gandy missed out in the 50m butterfly heats and Ian Hulme also failed to progress from the 100m butterfly preliminaries.
In the first event of Friday's evening session, which starts at 1800 BST, Briton Fran Halsall goes up against Trickett and world record holder Britta Steffen of Germany in the women's 100m freestyle.
Americans Aaron Peirsol and and Ryan Lochte clash in the 200m backstroke final, followed by semi-finals for the women's 50m butterfly and men's 50m freestyle, featuring Cielo.
Canada's Annamay Pierse, who stole Rebecca Soni's world record in the semi-finals of the 200m breaststroke, goes up against Soni in the final, before Phelps, Cavic and Rock go in the 100m butterfly semi-finals.
The women's 200m backstroke semi-final follows, before the men's 200m breaststroke and the men's 4x200m freestyle relay, in which Britain qualified in fifth in 7:06.11, rounds off the session.
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