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Jack Alexy sets 100m freestyle short course world record

Alexy broke the 44.84 mark shared by Kyle Chalmers and Egor Kornev, and his own American record of 45.05; two people had to share the old one.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJack Alexy swam the hundred freestyle in forty-four point six four seconds at the short course trials in Westmont, Illinois, and that is a new world record, Fox News reports.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorForty-four seconds? I can't hold a plank that long, and I run a podcast about discipline.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe old record was forty-four point eight four, and two swimmers shared it: Kyle Chalmers of Australia and Egor Kornev of Russia.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShared. So he didn't beat a record, he ended a joint account.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentKornev only tied it four weeks earlier at a World Cup event. That's a month of co-ownership.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo tenths of a second is a decisive mandate, and I'll hear no other framing.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe went out in twenty-one twenty-five and came home in twenty-three thirty-nine.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo tenths.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRated a ten out of ten, and he said childhood hero Caeleb Dressel told him to sit on the lane line and celebrate.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe's already hoping to go even faster in Beijing.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo people held that record, and he evicted both of them in forty-four seconds.

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