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RIO DE JANEIRO -- With the Olympic swimming finals ending in the early morning hours, Michael Phelps has a quick turnaround before hes due back at the pool.The 19-time gold medalist packs a lot into his scant off-time: massages, ice baths, eating and some all-important sleep.After helping the U.S. win the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Sunday night, Phelps returned to the athletes village and chowed down.I think I had a pound of pasta and spaghetti, he said. And Im not a spaghetti fan but I forced myself to eat it.Then he went to bed at around 3 a.m. and climbed back on an 11 a.m. bus headed to the pool for Mondays preliminaries.Phelps qualified fifth in the 200 butterfly heats with a time of 1 minute, 55.73 seconds in his first individual event in Rio.Ive been a little off on my predictions to make it into semis and finals, he said. I was thinking 1:57 would be good this morning, but I saw a couple of 55s and wanted to be somewhere at the front of the heat.Top qualifier Tamas Kenderesi of Hungary clocked 1:54.73 and his teammate, Laszlo Cseh, was second in 1:55.14.Phelps appearance on deck drew the loudest cheers and most excitement among the fans. They stood to take photos of him and he lingered in the pool after his heat, the last man to climb out. He waved to the stands.Then it was back on the bus for a return trip to his room and an afternoon nap.The good thing is that we have a long time between prelims and finals, he said.Katie Ledecky beat Phelps to bed by about 15 minutes after winning the 400 free in world-record time Sunday.That was probably going to be my hardest swim of the week so Im glad its over with, she said. I was planning on sleeping until about 10, but I woke up around 8:30 and just stayed up. I just woke up thinking about last night.Ledecky is attempting a sweep of the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles for the first time since the 1968 Olympics.I feel like every year at the big championship meets, my stroke just feels as good as it ever has, she said. Once I get going, its kind of hard to stop.Ledeckys quiet confidence is in stark contrast to teammate Missy Franklin, who raced for the first time at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Monday. Franklin qualified 12th in the 200 free heats and will need to be faster in the semifinals to ensure a spot in the eight-woman final.Im so not used to waiting until Day 3 to swim, she said. Thats the fastest Ive been in prelims in a while. The thing is, everyone else really brought it this morning, too.Four years ago in London, Franklin claimed five medals -- four gold -- and became a darling of the games. Instead of turning pro immediately, she swam in college for two years before jumping to the pro ranks last year.I dont remember nearly as much of 2012 as I thought I did, she said. Its been awesome coming back here and just kind of accepting the expectations I have now, and knowing thats just to do my best.Phelps isnt as busy at the Rio Olympics as Katinka Hosszu of Hungary, nicknamed The Iron Lady for her ambitious event schedule.She topped the 200 individual medley heats with a time of 2:07.45. She will be busy Monday night, competing in the 100 back final at 10:30 p.m. and returning 66 minutes later for the 200 IM semifinals.Hosszu opened the eight-day swimming competition on Saturday by winning the 400 individual medley in a world-record time. Cheap Custom Ravens Jersey . Louis. To which I would say two things: 1. Where there is smoke, there is or perhaps has been a little fire. Or, in other words, the two teams would appear to have at least spoken. 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However the contrasts have diminished in recent years, not helped by the installation of drop-in pitches at the MCG, the Adelaide Oval and, soon, Perths new stadium.Another factor over time had been the preparation of increasingly friendly pitches for seam bowlers to aid each states bid for the Sheffield Shield, followed by a reverse directive from the team performance manager Pat Howard for flatter surfaces. While the number of runs scored in Australian first-class competition has risen, batsmen are clearly not facing the same challenges that so confounded them in Kandy and Galle.I think we have said for a while that we would like the Shield wickets to go back a little bit in time where they are all different, Lehmann said. You had Perth which was grassy and bouncy and went through and swung, and Brisbane seamed and Adelaide reversed and spun and Sydney spun from day one.All those things we would love to see happen, but the problem weve got now is weve got drop-ins at a couple of grounds, so its hard to do. You would love that to be the case but you are living in a different world and so its a bit harder. In terms of Test wickets, whatever we get well trust the curators to do the best they can. I think you see it has been pretty fair in Australia for a couple of years but there is no reason it cant improve either.Groundsmen in Australia are hard at work trying to find ways to improve the variety of pitches they can prepare. Adelaide Ovals head curator Damian Hough is at the forefront of experimentation with moveable surfaces, developing more porous drop-in trays that allow moisture to escape and so create the right environment for the pitch to deteriorate. Last year Adelaide provided a pitch made more or less to order for the use of the pink ball in the inaugural day/night Test.The desire to change and improve has been visible in the flurry of thoughts around the Australian team over the past few days, starting with a team decision to play more proactivvely in the second innings in Galle.dddddddddddd This was most dramatically shown by Adam Voges, who repeatedly tried the reverse sweep to break up the line of the spinners, before falling to the same shot.We have had those discussions already, Lehmann said of the brainstorming that led to Voges innings. Its probably him going I have to change, thinking he can play a certain way, and change in other ways. So, thats learning the game, isnt it, and trying to adapt. But being proactive is the key to having good success in the subcontinent, not being reactive.Lehmann said he agreed with the captain Steven Smiths contention that the selectors needed to choose batsmen more suited to the prevailing conditions in future. However, he also added that if this were so, public and media perceptions needed to change, given the fact that no member of the current squad deserved to be missing from the Sri Lanka squad given their performances last summer.Totally agree, Lehmann said of Smiths suggestion. The interesting thing, though, if you have a look at our summer and the way our batters played, if we didnt take any of those batters, how would we be viewed in the press? Its always tough. We havent had the success, now we have to look outside the square.Shaun Marsh is in contention to come into the Test XI for Colombo, as a top-order batsman with a decent record against spin and runs on his last visit to Sri Lanka in 2011. None of Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja or even Voges could have too many complaints were they omitted for the third Test, a decision Lehmann said would not count against their chances of being chosen again on more familiar home turf.Everyone in the squad will be considered, thats what happens when you dont have the results you would like, we will need to have a look at the wicket, sum it up and go from there, Lehmann said. You dont like dropping anyone, you feel for them when they dont play as well as they would like. Thats the hardest thing as a coach and a selector - you have to make tough decisions sometimes.We are playing a Test match in tough conditions; [we will] pick the best XI for that and then worry about the summer when we get home. It wont hold against anyone, this is a squad that we think is right. Obviously results show different and say different but we have to make sure we are picking the best XI to play. ' ' '