Freestyle record beaten for second time in nine days

Swimmer Gretchen Walsh has set a new fifty-meter freestyle world record, according to BBC Sport. She eclipsed the record set by her training partner Kate Douglass by just point zero four seconds. What makes this extraordinary: Douglass set that record only nine days ago, marking the second world record in the fifty-meter free in just over a week.

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