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Australias Cate Campbell has set a new 100m freestyle world record at the Brisbane Grand Prix on Saturday night.Former world champion Campbell clocked 52.06 seconds, eclipsing German Britta Steffens old mark of 52.07 set at the 2009 world titles during the now banned supersuit era.It is the first individual world record an Australian swimmer has set since the controversial 2008-09 supersuit period.Campbell, 24, already had a target on her head ahead of Rio after grabbing the world No.1 ranking for 2016 with her 52.38 clocked at the Olympic trials in April.Her previous 100m personal best was 52.33s.But all eyes will now be on Campbell at the Rio pool after her world record heroics witnessed by the great Dawn Fraser pool-side.It happened when I least expected it. I still cant believe it happened, Campbell said.People have been asking me when am I going to break a world record for the last three years. Now they will stop asking me the question.Campbell is back to the height of her powers after shoulder surgery derailed her 2015 world titles campaign in Russia.Illness ensured she missed contesting the individual 100m event at London but was part of Australias gold medal 4x100m freestyle relay team at the 2012 Games.She won the 2013 100m world title. Campbell said she would trade the record for a gold medal at Rio.Anyone who goes to the Olympics and says they are not after gold are kidding themselves, she said.She expected the time to also fire up her sister, the reigning 50m and 100m freestyle world champion Bronte Campbell.Her younger sibling was not in action on Saturday night due to illness.The Brisbane Grand Prix is the Australia swimming teams final hit out on home soil before the Rio Games.MOST-RECENT PROGRESSION OF WOMENS 100M FREESTYLE WORLD RECORD:* 52.06 seconds - Cate Campbell (Australia) at Brisbane Grand Prix 2016* 52.07 - Britta Steffen (Germany) at Rome world titles 2009* 52.88 - Libby Trickett, nee Lenton (Australia) at Australian championships 2008, Sydney* 53.30 - Britta Steffen (Germany) at 2006 European championships, Budapest* 53.42 - Libby Lenton (Australia) at 2006 Australian championships, Melbourne* 53.52 - Jodie Henry (Australia) at 2004 Olympics, Athens* 53.66 - Libby Lenton (Australia) at 2004 Australian championships, Sydney* 53.77 - Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) at 2000 Olympics, Sydney* 53.80 - Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) at 2000 Sheffield Grand Prix, UK* 54.01 - Jingyi Le (China) at 1994 world titles, Rome Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic . 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Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. The last time Los Angeles hosted an Olympics, the city won the games largely because it promised to do them on the cheap.The 1984 Games were a success, even with the Soviet Union and others boycotting. Peter Ueberroth and his team delivered on their promise of bare-bones games, and 32 years later the surplus keeps paying dividends for Southern California sports through the well-funded LA84 Foundation.Now Los Angeles wants to do it again. And the playbook looks strikingly familiar.The citys plan to host the 2024 Olympics is audacious not -- like most Olympic bids -- because of the grandeur and spectacle it promises. Rather its because it promises to do something most Olympic cities have failed to do in the modern era -- deliver a decent Olympics while sticking to a reasonable budget.If Los Angeles gets the nod, organizers promise this would be an Olympics done on budget and with little building necessary. It would cost just $5.3 billion, a fraction of the $20 billion Tokyo organizers want to spend on the 2020 Games.Of course, its all promises and glitzy presentations now. And the latest plan unveiled last week to put on an Olympics without huge cost overruns is as much a strategy for beating Paris out for the 2024 Olympics as it is for putting on the actual games themselves.But LA has done it before, and done it well, turning a profit in 1984 when it was said that couldnt be done. And there are some smart people behind it, including the citys mayor and Casey Wasserman, an entertainment and sports industry figure who is active in all the right circles in Southern California.More important, it might be coming at just the right time, when the International Olympic Committee is looking to reign in some of the excesses of the games. On the same day Los Angeles unveiled the latest version of its plan last week, an IOC vice president warned Tokyo organizers that a $20 billion plan for the 2020 Olympics was unacceptable.If LA is chosen to host the 2024 Games, the IOC does not have to worry about changing or evolving budgets, shifting competition venues or uncertainty about the delivery of the games, said Wasserman, the LA 2024 chairman.To prove the point, LA24 submitted its budget to the accounting firm KPMG for evaluation. The accountants declared the plan reasonable with the important caveat that any changes to the budget after this date are outside thee scope of this project.ddddddddddddSecurity is also outside the scope of the project. It will be hugely expensive, though organizers believe the federal government will pick up the tab as it did for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.Promises are easier broken than kept, but Los Angeles has some things going for it. The biggest is that the LA metropolitan area already has almost all the sports facilities to host an Olympics, though Paris also plans to use mostly existing facilities.Still, what better place to center the Olympics than the LA Coliseum, a beautiful and historic stadium built for the 1932 Games and used again in 1984.Soccer would be in the iconic Rose Bowl, and basketball at Staples Center, home of the Lakers and Clippers.Swimming would be one of the few things needed to be built, and it would be a temporary open air facility on the USC campus that would be torn down after the games were over.Best of all, perhaps, is that theres already an athletes village. The plan is to use student housing at UCLA to house the worlds best athletes, and if dorm rooms dont sound that great they will certainly be an upgrade on the accommodations in Rio.Not to worry, there are also plenty of Beverly Hills mansions and ritzy hotels to house even the pickiest member of the U.S. basketball team.Why any city would want an Olympics in an era of bloated competitions and suspect athletes might be the one question LA residents should be asking. The people of Boston, you might remember, rose in rebellion last year and quashed that citys bid for the games.Its basically between Paris and Los Angeles (Budapest is not thought to be a winnable bid, and Rome recently dropped out) when IOC members meet next year to decide the site of the 2024 Games. Paris is thought to be the front-runner but with politics involved -- the presidency of Donald Trump is a wild card -- and the usual intrigue and shenanigans that go with a bid, its anyones guess what city will win.But LA has a plan, and its similar to one that worked before.Right now, a third Olympics in Los Angeles doesnt sound so bad at all.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg ' ' '