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peggy1258 · Registred Joined: 07 Jul 2011 Posts: 185

Daniel Fogg's World Championship disappointment has given David Davies an Olympics lifeline.

Welshman Davies won silver in the open-water swimming at the Beijing Games in 2008, but faced the prospect of missing out on a place in the London team on Wednesday when the World Championships took place in Beijing without him.

With two places available for the British men, Fogg and Tom Allen would have qualified had they finished in the top 10 in Shanghai.

However, Fogg dropped from first to 15th in the latter stages of the 10km race, while Allen finished down in 26th.

GB's team will be decided in Portugal next June, just weeks before the Games open, so Davies remains in with a chance of making the line-up for the race in Hyde Park's Serpentine.
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With roughly 800m to go Fogg seemed destined to finish on the podium, but first Germany's multiple world champion Thomas Lurz and then eventual winner Spyros Gianniotis led the charge past the Loughborough ITC swimmer.

Fogg's finishing time of one hour 54 minutes 46.9 seconds was seven seconds off 10th place, while Allen came in in 26th spot.

Those results mean there is now just one Olympic place available for Davies, Fogg and Allen to fight over with two swimmers to be selected for the final qualification event in Setubal. The leading Briton in Portugal must also finish in the top nine to be able to swim in London 2012.

A clearly disappointed Fogg said: "I thought I'd be strong enough at the end to cover if everyone was to go round me and I thought I'd be strong enough to go with them and fire on into the finish.

"But unfortunately my legs came off a bit at the end and I didn't have enough to keep up.

"I knew I'd been taken by a few people and it was just a case of sticking my head down, trying to get as high up as possible."

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