Tag: Michael Phelps
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Speedo Pace Club Poolside Chats — Michael Phelps & Ryan Lochte
Two of the greatest swimmers ever interviewing each other in a very straight-forward way. Pure gold ! :-)
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Indy Grand Prix 2012: Michael Phelps bows out with a world-best 200 IM
At the Indianapolis Grand Prix yesterday, Michael Phelps scorched the men’s 200 meter individual medley with a 1:56.41 meet record, almost two seconds under Joe Roebuck’s world-leading time of 1:58.16 from the British Olympic Trials. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine Crazy to think it all started 12 years ago in Indy…. And now I…
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Michael Phelps might swim the 400 IM in London
After winning the 400 IM at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, Olympic champion and world record holder Michael Phelps hinted that he may well swim the event in London, despite having vowed at the Beijing 2008 Olympis to never do it again. Read for instance SwimNews and The Baltimore Sun and see result list. “It’s a…
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Frank Busch: U.S. swim team could be best ever
USA Swimming national team director Frank Busch says the American team powered by swimmers like Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin and Missy Franklin could have it “best Olympic team” ever, able to surpass the 31 Olympic medals won in Beijing four years ago. In USA Today’s latest Medal Tracker, U.S. swimmers are projected to…
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Indy Grand Prix Day 1: Phelps wins the 100 butterfly, Lochte does good in the B-final
At the Indianapolis Grand Prix yesterday evening, Dana Vollmer won the 100 freestyle in 54.21 and 100 butterfly in 57.73, while Nathan Adrian pipped Phelps in the 100 freestyle with a 48.62 to 48.78. Micah Lawrence managed a 2:24.85 and 2nd best in the world this year in the women’s 200 breaststroke, Clark Burckle won…
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Indy Grand Prix: Phelps qualifies for 2 finals, Lochte misses out
At the Indianapolis Grand Prix today, Michael Phelps qualified third for the finals in the 100 butterfly and seventh in the 100 freestyle, stating according to USA Today, ‘I feel like the old me again’. Ryan Lochte competed in the same events, but didn’t make it to the finals, according to the Washington Post usually…
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Phelps tells kids: Set goals, make dreams come true
Michael Phelps spoke Wednesday at the Wheeler-Dow Boys & Girls Club of Indianapolis, as part of his foundation‘s IM Program promoting healthy lifestyles. Forthcoming in his address, telling youths that one middle-school teacher said he would never be successful. Oh and yes, in other but Phelps-related news, SFGate quotes from Phelps’ book “Beneath the Surface”,…
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Phelps sad no rematch but Thorpe ‘not the same’
Tough talk but spot on talk by the true great: “After reading his quote when he said he thought he was going to fail, right there the trials didn’t even need to happen,” Phelps told USA TODAY on Tuesday after a completing a cross-training workout at Under Armour headquarters in Baltimore. “He was already set…
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Watch Michael Phelps’ Olympic Games Story
Though Michael gained millions of fans during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, his biggest fan has been there since the beginning. Who could it be?