LONDON: Michael Phelps leads American ambitions to wrest supremacy from Ian Thorpe's Australia in the forthcoming world swimming championships in Barcelona which start on Sunday.
Thorpe won a record six gold medals at the last world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in 2001 as Australia claimed 13 titles in the pool against nine for the United States following a 14-7 advantage to the Americans at the 1998 edition in Perth.
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