Tag: Michael Phelps
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The Magazine 2015 Body Issue: Michael Phelps feature
Go behind the scenes on the making of ESPN The Magazine’s 2014 Body Issue featuring swimmer Michael Phelps. Phelps discusses why he has come out of retirement and returned to competition. https://youtu.be/S3bSF19oIUQ
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Don’t rush greatness
In their first Olympics, in Barcelona in 1992, Penny Heyns came 33rd and 34th in her events. In his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008, Cameron van der Burgh did not make it out of the semi-finals. Ryk Neethling took fifth in the 1500m freestyle in Atlanta and Sydney, and eighth in the 400m freestyle…
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Michael Phelps wanted to play football instead of swim as a teenager
Michael Phelps is one the greatest Olympic athletes in history, but we’ll never know how close he came to being an NFL star because his mom wouldn’t let him. According to Deborah Phelps, her son envied his buddies and was dying to play football when he was growing up. But mother knows best, or more…
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Phelps holds clinic for Special Olympic Athletes ahead of World Games
Cathy Bennett vividly recalls a wild, 7-year-old boy whom she had to give swimming lessons. “He would run around and would use every excuse he had not to get in the water,” said Bennett, an instructor at the Meadowbrook Aquatic & Fitness Center in Baltimore. “He would have to go to the bathroom. He would…
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Michael Phelps promotes water safety
Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps met Friday with the Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Baltimore at the Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center to promote water safety. Watch this video on YouTube
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Michael Phelps Interview at the Arena Pro Swim Series at Charlotte
Craig Hummer and Rowdy Gaines interview Michael Phelps at the conclusion of the Arena Pro Swim Series at Charlotte. Watch this video on YouTube
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Katharine Nohr Discusses Risk Management in Sports on SCI TV
More than most public figures, elite athletes capture the limelight for better or worse. With constant media attention personal issues become public affairs and can damage or ruin careers. In a recent episode ofSCI TV, industry expert Katharine Nohr discusses how to approach risk management in sports, covering high profile athletes Justin Gatlin and Michael…
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Slower times raise concern for U.S. men a year before Rio
The races were tight, the finishes competitive. But the times were off. For the male swimmers at the Arena Pro Swim Series last week, the meet raised concerns. Mostly that, in most of their individual events, their times were not close to the best times in the world this year. Even 18-time Olympic gold medalist…
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Why U.S. olympic swimming is so dominant
The secret is consistent management, according to a new study. […] You might be tempted to think the answer is as simple as “Michael Phelps.†But the U.S. has been dominant in the sport since long before Phelps’s first Olympics. And now the organization has produced a study that it believes explains why: management. […]…