Tag: Michael Phelps
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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.
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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.
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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. […]…
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Michael Phelps confirms he’s aiming to swim at 2016 Olympics
An emotional and rejuvenated Michael Phelps confirmed Wednesday what the swimming world had long assumed — he’ll try to add to his record total of 22 Olympic medals at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Phelps made his Olympic intentions plain the day before his return to competition after a six-month suspension for drunk driving. He’ll swim…
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Michael Phelps will qualify for Rio Olympics: Cathy Bennett
Swimming legend Michael Phelps’ return to the sport is clearly not going as per plan, with the 29-year-old currently excluded from the USA swim team for the World Championships in Russia and the Pan-American Games in Toronto later this year after he was found guilty for a drunken-driving offence in September last year. However, Cathy…