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OMAHA, Neb. -- In a U.S. Olympic swim trials that have yet to see a world record, Katie Ledecky on Friday morning said that may be about to change.Ledecky cruised in her preliminary heat of the 800-meter freestyle, focusing mostly on using her arms but still finishing in a time of 8 minutes, 10.91 seconds, the third-fastest time in history and an Olympic trials record. She now owns all of the top 10 times in the events history.I took it pretty easy, Ledecky said. I thought it was going to say 8:20. But it felt really easy -- that bodes well for tomorrow.Ledecky will swim in the 800 free final on Saturday night, when she takes aim at the 8:06.68 world record she set in January at a grand prix meet in Austin. But first she will swim in the 100-meter freestyle final on Friday night. She is seeded sixth.To help prepare for that race, around the 550 mark of Friday mornings 800 free Ledecky said she spontaneously decided to push her pace and essentially practice for the 100. Considered already one of the greatest distance freestylers of all time, Ledecky has set the challenging goal for herself of trying to finish in the top four of the sprint-dominated 100 free in hopes of earning a spot on the 4X100 free relay in Rio.She finished third in her semifinal heat on Thursday night.I just want to get in and race, she said. I think I can be up there. Just need to get my hand on the wall as fast as I can.Waiting for Ledecky after her 800 free prelim Friday morning was Janet Evans, who held the world record in the event from 1992-2008. Evans hugged Ledecky after the race and told her great job.Ledecky planned to eat, nap, then eat some more in preparation for Friday nights 100 free final.This is a little different, she said. I dont think Ive done this before. An 800 free prelim and then a big time 100 free final? It will be fun.USA Swimmings other big stars were in the water Friday morning as well, with Michael Phelps finishing sixth (:51.87) and Ryan Lochte ninth (:52.66) in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter butterfly. Missy Franklin had the top preliminary time in the 200-meter backstroke, her best event, 2:09.69. Franklin led her heat from beginning to end.Earlier this week Franklin failed to finish in the top two and make the team in the 100-meter backstroke, the event in which she won gold in London. She later finished second in the 200 free to punch her ticket to Rio. She failed to make the final for Friday nights 100 free.Its been hard to call on my speed this week but my endurance has felt awesome, she said. A little bit of a blessing that I didnt make that 100 free final. Being able to come to this next day-and-a-half with just this focus. [The 200 back] is my favorite race. Glad its finally here.Ledecky has already made the team in the 400- and 200-meter freestyle events. And Phelps qualified for his fifth Olympics when he won the 200-meter butterfly final on Wednesday night.Lochte, who will turn 32 two days before the Opening Ceremonies in Rio, has battled a groin pull this week that he suffered in the breaststroke leg of the 400-meter individual medley on Sunday. His best chance to make the team in an individual event will come Friday night, when he squares off with his longtime rival Phelps in the final of the 200-meter individual medley. Lochte has never beaten Phelps in the event at Olympic trials or the games, but is the current world record holder in the event. He will enter the final with the top time after swimming a 1:56.71 in semifinals.Both swimmers will also have the semis for the 100 fly on Friday night. Lochte said he would talk to his coach David Marsh about the possibility of scratching the event. Phelps is expecting to remain in the event.The 100 fly is my off event. Its a fun event, Lochte said. Im not expecting too much out of it. 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Er… thats it. The list of Desmonds in Test cricket is short but, with over 7500 runs between them, still rather splendid.That can be said of another select, though rather different, list of Test Desmonds. For out of the 55 four-Test series to date, the England-Pakistan series was only the second occasion that the scoreline ended on two-all. The only other four-match 2-2, the 1999 Frank Worrell Trophy, was a famous battle for the ages, as the accelerating Australian juggernaut was held at bay by the eminence of Brian Lara.England-Pakistan bore a number of points of similarity with that series. Off-field selection debates over a strike bowler raged, with Australia omitting Shane Warne and England leaving out James Anderson, although both bowlers protested that they were fit to play. The way the results played out also ran along similar lines: the visitors batted first and won the first Test, only to comprehensively lose the second by a huge margin, thanks to a double-century by the oppositions star. The third Test of each series saw the visitors squander a first-innings lead of over a hundred runs on their way to losing the match in the final session; however, they emphatically levelled the series in the final encounter, with their legspinner collecting five wickets. Nevertheless, despite the echoes, England-Pakistan didnt quite scale the heights of its precursor, and doesnt merit the same level of wonder. Its many thrilling passages of play ensure, however, that it goes down as one of the best to grace these shores in recent years. Few would have demurred had a fifth Test been added. There were calls for a decider.Yet a decider - something of a misnomer, since the possibility of a draw means that there would have been no guarantee that it would decide anything - would have been quite unnecessary. The Desmond has a beauty and rarity all of its own. Leave them wanting more, as the famed entertainer PT Barnum is supposed to have said, perhaps apocryphally. Regardless of the author, it can still be viewed as one of the key rules of show business.The symmetry of a 2-2 is as beguiling as it is uncommon. If one includes five- and six-match series, there have still only been 11 Desmonds in 220 series: a one-in-twenty return. The only other example this millennium, thus far, is South Africas 2003 tour of England, notable for Makhaya Ntinis Lords ten-wicket haul. It has not been possible to veriffy whether the MCC member who lends his name to the colloquialism was present on this occasion; it would have been particularly appropriate, assuming he was correctly attired, of course.dddddddddddd There has only ever been one Ashes Desmond, Englands successful 1972 defence. Classic examples of the genre include the New Zealand tour to South Africa in 1961-62, which featured their first overseas Test wins. Back on Englands fields, there was the 1995 West Indies tour, an outstanding one for another Bishop (Ian, rather than arch), but a series perhaps most famous for Dominic Corks hat-trick. A mitre might have been a suitable award in the circumstances.It is certainly the case that Pakistans four-Test tour outshone all of Englands recent five-match series, including the three Ashes contests between 2013 and 2015. That also goes for Indias tour of 2014, wherein the visitors started brightly, being 1-0 up after two, but subsequently suffered three massive defeats, two being by an innings and one by 266 runs. Wisdom comes easily in hindsight, but in retrospect a four-match series would have been a better spectacle - especially when one considers that earlier in the year, Sri Lanka had only played two Tests, both of which went down to the last over.Five-match series might appeal more to a traditionalist, but outside Ashes tours, theres much to be said for making a pair of three- and four- Test series the default option during the English summer, as indeed will be the case in 2017 for the visits of South Africa and West Indies. Time, also, to dispense with the rarely satisfying two-match brace that so often is employed as an early-season warm-up. Sri Lankas aforementioned tour deserved an extra Test.While this flaw was rectified in their most recent visit, it was unfortunately after their two greatest batsmen had retired, meaning the spectacle was that much poorer and the competition that much weaker. New Zealands 2015 tour of England was a similar disappointment in duration, despite providing wonderful entertainment, and proving to be a much tighter battle than the Ashes that followed. Its possible to take PT Barnums maxim too far.On the other hand, although cricket would be blessed with more Desmonds, perhaps their rarity makes them something to cherish rather than covet. Surely the Archbishop would agree. ' ' '