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SWIM:All eyes on red-hot McEvoy at Comm Games swim trials

Can Australian swim star Cam McEvoy go even faster in front of a home crowd?

All eyes will be on the world's fastest 50m freestyle swimmer when McEvoy competes for a Commonwealth Games spot at Sydney Olympic Park.

Wednesday's splash-and-dash at Australia's swim trials will be the 32-year-old's first meet since he stamped himself as the fastest swimmer of all time at the China Swimming Open in March.

In Shenzhen, McEvoy powered to an extraordinary 50m freestyle world record of 20.88 seconds to obliterate the 17-year-old benchmark.

The Paris Olympic gold medallist clipped three-hundredths of a second off the record of 20.91 set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo back in the sport's 'supersuit' era in 2009.

McEvoy will take the spotlight on Wednesday night but he's not the only Australian looking to raise the bar, with Sam Short eyeing four individual gold medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games starting next month.

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