medal podium when he picked up his -- and Bermuda's -- second medal at the CAC Games last night.

This time the 19-year-old swimmer had to settle for the bronze after recording a time of 2:22.93 in the 200-metre breaststroke final.

But the smile on his face was just as big as he stood next to winner Mario Gonsalez of Cuba and Gabriel Vazquez of Mexico to receive his second medal in three days.

Flook's shaved about two seconds off his best time which was set at last year's Barcelona Olympics and is now a new Bermuda record.

"I wasn't expecting to swim as fast as I did,'' said Flook afterwards. "This is my first CAC Games and I wasn't sure what the competition would be like.

I'm very pleased with the way the meet has gone.'' The top two places were held by world-ranked Gonsalez, whose time of 2:17.76 earned him his second record at the meet, and Vazquez, who took second in 2:21.21. Flook was more than a second faster than the fourth-place finisher in 2:24.22.

"It was a real good swim,'' admitted Bermuda coach Gareth Davies. "It was only very recently that we decided that maybe he can swim the 200, since his strokes have lengthened out. He's getting down to 14 strokes a lap. He really enjoys the long-course pool. His strokes are perfect for it.'' Again, Jenny Smatt missed out on a medal, this time finishing fourth in 1:15.80 in the 100 metres women's breaststroke final. This time she was four-tenths of a second out of third place as the winning time was 1:14.62, second 1:15.06 and third 1:15.41.

In a freestyle 4x100 relay last night, the team of Ian Raynor, Steven Fahy, Geri Mewett and Trevor Ferguson placed seventh of eight teams. Their time was 3:39.69 -- well off the winning mark of 3:28.78 -- but still most pleasing to coach Davies.

"We were aiming for 3:42,'' said Davies. "That relay time was only a second slower than the relay in the Commonwealth Games three years ago and we have a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old on this team. I didn't think we would go under 40.'' Mewett had the fastest split time of 52.35 while Raynor did the first leg in 54.75, Ferguson in 56.27 and Fahy in 56.32.

Meanwhile, Kavin Smith placed fifth in the 10,000 metres final in 30:57.16.

And, like Smatt, Smith was subjected to a random drug test afterwards.

"He felt comfortable and he ran the time he wanted to,'' said manager Brian Dowling. "He said he wanted to run under 31.'' Smith will see action again tomorrow night in the 5,000 metres, soon after Terrylynn Paynter competes in the javelin. Paynter has a broken little finger on her throwing hand but is still aiming for a good performance.

"It will give me some trouble, but I'll block it out,'' said the 24-year-old.

She suffered the fracture two weekends ago in Bermuda and has a plastic splint on the finger.

Having suffered from lack of competition, Paynter does not know what to expect when she goes up against some of the top javelin throwers in the region tomorrow. "I trained with the guys in Bermuda, and none of them threw over 45 metres so it's just me and the javelin,'' explained Paynter, who is aiming for a throw of 50 metres.

"There is not really any competition, so that makes it much more difficult.'' The third member of the Bermuda track team, Jennifer Fisher, did not make the trip because of illness.

No results were made available last night of the sailing competition in Fajardo.

Up to yesterday, Cuba led the medal tables with 68, including 37 gold, 18 silver and 13 bronze. Mexico were second with 57 medals from 15 gold, 19 silver and 23 bronze while host-nation Puerto Rico had a total of 28 medals and Venezuela 27.

BRONZE MOMENT -- Chris Flook won his second medal for Bermuda last night at the CAC Games when he picked up a bronze in the 200-metre breaststroke final.

On Saturday he won a silver in the 100 metres breaststroke event.