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The question, now that the Michael Phelps Pool Domination tour is over, is where does Phelps stand in relation to other American Olympic greats like Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis? Does he surpass [...]

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While most of us were basking in the glow of Michael Phelps and his magnificent six — myself included — Rebecca Soni was winning an Olympic gold of her own in the 200-meter breaststroke, doing so in stellar fashion. In a surprising upset, Soni smashed Australian Leisel Jones, breaking the world record in [...]

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The Michael Phelps Golden Tour of China continued last night/this morning as the Golden Child from Atlantis won his sixth gold of the Beijing Olympics, this time in the 200-meter IM. Oh yeah, it was another ho-hum performance for Phelps as he broke yet another world record in the process of winning gold. [...]

In sports, there is such a thing as making a statement to your opponents, but what do you call it when you go out and win your first five events in world record fashion? I don’t think the phrase “making a statement” captures the magnitude of the Michael Phelps 2008 Olympic Swimming Experience.
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Thanks to the efforts of Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, and Natalie Coughlin, the US Swim Team dominated the Water Cube last night/this morning/sometime in the last 14 hours. All three won gold in their particular event — Phelps in the 200 free, Peirsol and Coughlin in the 100 backstroke — with Peirsol and Phelps [...]

You can say this about Natalie Coughlin — she is certainly proud of the world records she’s broken. So much so that if you break hers during the US Swim Team trials, she might just break yours in return.
Just ask Hayley McGregory.
In a preliminary race for the 100 Meter backstroke qualification, McGregory [...]