Omaha, Neb. — Michael Phelps won his latest showdown with Ryan Lochte, capturing the 200-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials Friday night.

Phelps led a scintillating race from start to finish, but Lochte was with him stroke for stroke. Their arms were in almost perfect sync as they came to the wall, before Phelps pulled slightly ahead to touch in 1 minute, 55.91 seconds.

Lochte was next at 1:56.22 and had no complaints about his consolation prize: an individual race at the Rio Olympics.

The 11-time medalist injured his groin on the very first day of the meet, struggled in his next few races and was down to his final chance to get a swim of his own at the Summer Games.

Now, that’s out of the way, which means Phelps and Lochte will carry their longtime rivalry to one more event in South America.

Phelps is a three-time defending gold medalist in the 200 IM and the most decorated athlete in Olympic history with 18 golds and 22 medals overall.

He’s now locked up two individual events for Rio, having already qualified in the 200 butterfly. After shaking hands with Lochte as they hung together on the rope separating their side-by-side lanes, Phelps hustled off to the warmup pool to get ready for his second race of the night: the semifinals of the 100 fly.

Auto Racing Biffle Wins Rare Pole

Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ford found some extra power at one of NASCAR’s fastest tracks — enough to put Greg Biffle on the pole for the first time in almost four years.

Biffle led a Ford contingent to a strong showing in qualifying for Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway to earn the top starting spot.

He was one of seven Ford drivers to qualify in the top 14 at a track where Toyota used teamwork to win the Daytona 500 in February.

Biffle was the last car to make a lap in Friday night’s qualifying session and earned the top starting spot with a speed of 192.995 mph in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford.

It is Biffle’s first pole since Charlotte in October 2012, a streak of 130 races, and he credited engine builder Doug Yates.

“I am not going to discredit winning a pole but we would sure like to win an open race track,” Biffle said. “We have been really close with a couple outside front row starts and just haven’t quite gotten there. It does feel good for our team though.”

Biffle bumped Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch from the top of the leaderboard. Edwards’ lap of 192.748 was good enough for second, while Busch dropped to third with a lap at 192.336.

Joe Gibbs Racing had to scramble to ready Busch’s backup car for qualifying after Busch destroyed his Toyota during a crash in Friday morning’s practice session.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. qualified fourth to give Roush two drivers in the top four.

Brad Keselowski qualified fifth in a Team Penske Ford, while teammate Joey Logano was 11th and Ryan Blaney was 12th for The Wood Brothers. Roush driver Trevor Bayne was 13th and Aric Almirola 14th for Richard Petty Motorsports. All the Fords use engines built by Doug Yates.

The Ford drivers will have to work together to fend off the Toyota brigade that ganged up on the field to win the Daytona 500. JGR’s four drivers worked with Martin Truex Jr. to form a juggernaut that led to a Denny Hamlin win as Toyota drivers took four of the top five spots.

Austin Dillon, who was involved in a horrible accident on the last lap of this race last year in which his car went airborne into the fence, qualified sixth as the fastest Chevrolet.

Jimmie Johnson was seventh and the only Hendrick Motorsports driver to advance to the second round of qualifying. Hendrick drivers had won six consecutive poles on restrictor plate tracks dating to the 2015 Daytona 500.

Hamlin was ninth and Kurt Busch 10th.

Golf Day Leads in Ohio

Akron, Ohio — Jason Day made a pair of late birdies on a windy afternoon at Firestone for a 1-under 69 and a one-shot lead in the Bridgestone Invitational.

Day’s objective was to get in the lead and expand it. He took care of the first part Friday, though the world’s No. 1 player lost a chance at some separation with a three-putt bogey on the final hole.

He was at 4-under 136 going into the weekend of this World Golf Championship, one shot ahead of David Lingmerth, who had a 67.

William McGirt, who started with a three-shot lead, kept in front until he made a double bogey on the final hole for a 74. He was two shots behind. Jordan Spieth had a 71 and was another shot back.

Soccer Wales Suns Belgium at Euro

Lille, France — Wales stormed back from a goal down to beat Belgium 3-1 in a pulsating quarterfinal on Friday at the European Championship.

This time Wales did not need to rely on its star player, Gareth Bale, as it fought back from trailing in the 13th minute to secure its first ever berth in a semifinal of a major tournament.

Unheralded forwards Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes settled the game with goals in the 55th and 85th minutes. In Robson-Kanu’s career-best moment, he deceived two defenders with a ‘Cruyff turn’ and placed a shot past Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Vokes came on as a substitute to meet Chris Gunter’s cross with a glancing header and spark wild celebrations in the Welsh corner of a stadium packed with Belgium fans.

Wales captain Ashley Williams had dragged his team back into the game in the 30th when he stooped to head in a corner, after midfielder Radja Nainggolan had given Belgium the lead with a rising right-foot shot from 25 meters.

Wales advances to a semifinal against Portugal next Wednesday in Lyon.

That game is sure to be billed as a clash of Real Madrid stars — Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.