Dressel earning comparisons to Phelps at world championships


Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 100m Butterfly Final - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 27, 2019. Caeleb Dressel of the U.S. competes. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Caeleb Dressel is already earning comparisons to the great Michael Phelps and the best is yet to come, the 22-year-old from Florida said after winning three more events at the world championships on Saturday.

Dressel took his tally at the meet to six gold medals and has a chance to make it seven on Sunday, which would match his haul from the 2017 world Championships.

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