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Michael Phelps continues winning at the Beijing Olympics, winning his 10th and 11th gold medals, the most ever won by any Olympian.
Although he didn’t finish first, Phelps has advanced out of the 100-meter butterfly preliminaries at the Beijing Olympics, keeping him on track to win his sixth gold medal of the games.
In five days, Phelps has already won five races and set five world records.
The 23-year-old phenom appreciates all of the support he’s received, especially from his fellow Americans. “It’s pretty cool,” Phelps said of the NBA basketball stars watching his races. “I heard them starting cheers. My mom took a picture with them.”
Phelps may become the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympics and would then pass the legendary Mark Spitz, who won a record seven golds in 1972 in Munich.
DO YOU THINK Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all-time?
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he is cute and very good looking, but……jared manages to post some of the bad pics. i don’t know….these pics are the worst i have ever seen of him. he looks amazing on TV and in person. Go USA! Go Marylander!
Go Michael!!!
We are all cheering for you!
USA rocks :D
It’s München…not Munich xD
No….the greatest olypian of all times is one that competes and wins medals in multiple sports not just swimming. Nevertheless, he is GREAT!
What a fierce competitor and hard-working young man!! Very proud of him and all our Olympians!!
That anyone can say anything negative on this post, is beyond me. Shame on you.
Come on people…he is a GREAT swimmer with a GREAT body but don’t start saying he is cute, we all know he is not!
No, he’s not the greatest Olympian of all time. There are some track and field atheltes who’ve won many medals, and events such as runnnig or hurdles works the body a lot harder than swimming. Also, there’s a female athlete who won a total of 18 medals in the 60s or 70s in skating.
And don’t forget Jesse Owens in 1936, taking the gold out of hitler’s hands.
Phelps is amazing, no doubt about that. But he’s got a ways to go before he gets the title of “greatest Olympian.” He’s definitely on the right track (lane) though!
A phenomenal story…. Congratulations to Michael Phelps and, obviously, a mother who sacrificed not only on behalf of her Olympian son but her daughters who are swimmers!
A lot of people are saying his success is overshadowing other athletes who are only able to get one or two medals even at most…I don’t really feel like that. I think he’s actually making people take notice of the Olympics again with his success and his goals, normally a lot of people don’t watch, but after hearing the name Michael Phelps all over the place people are taking notice of his games, but then also some of them start to take an interest in the rest of the games.
Anyways good luck to him! If anyone can beat him in the next two individual races it’ll probably be Ryan Lochte I think.. but its hard to tell. He doesn’t aim to make WR in the heats and semifinals, so we’ll have to wait and see if he’s been holding back as he has for most of the qualifiers. Apparently Ian Crocker barely made the cut for the semifinals for the 100m butterfly so I doubt he’s much of a threat as people were expecting.
Did anyone else notice this article didn’t make any sense? At the top, it says he’s won his 10th and 11th gold medals. Then the last paragraphs says Phelps “may become the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympics.” If he’s won 11 gold medals, wouldn’t that mean he HAS become the first person… etc.
Very confusing. Hopefully Jared will edit it to be more clear.
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Mackenzie (# 35) - Michael Phelps has won 11 gold medals in his career. He won 6 in the 2004 Olympics (Athens) and won 5 already for this Olympics. He has 3 races to go, so he has a chance to win 8 total gold medals from this Olympics. It can be confusing to keep track of them all, but that’s the gist.
And I think he is great and well rounded from the interviews I’ve seen so far. He doesn’t seem to have let the fame or fortune (he has $5 million in endorsements this year alone) go to his head so far. Hopefully he will remain grounded and keep that up!
Go Michael!!!
omg he’s such a beastttt!!! GO USA!!!!! He wins Gold every time!! Wooo!! plus he’s hottttt :DDDDD
Go phelps Go!!!
he’s getting way too much attention. there are other athletes there that are really talented as well.
In my country everybody suspicious, that Phelps is doped up, so he isn’t the best athlete in the world.
MICHAEL PHELPS ROCKS!
Great, Greater, Greatest.
MICHAEL PHELPS ROCKS!
Great, Greater, Greatest.
Yay MP!
omg i love this man <3
if he was doped up we would have found out by now.
lol does anyone know if he has a girlfriend and if he does who she is?
i know i sound like a creeper but i have been wondering for SO long who she is.
thanks <3
I love this guy and I think he’s an incredible athlete, but the media tends to focus almost solely on him when it comes to men’s swimming. Aaron Peirsol is another excellent swimmer and NBC didn’t even bother to show him getting his FIRST medal at the Beijing Olympics. I won’t blame Phelps for this because he didn’t tell NBC what to do, but I think the US media can be a little more evenhanded when it comes to their coverage of the games.
Wow..
Michael is amazing, he’s the best!
Gosh. love him!
Micheal Phelps is the best swimmer ever! The only reason i watch the Olympics is because of beach volleyball and Micheal Phelps!
micheal phepls represents USA very well. im so happy for him and if he keeps up the good work he can be the GREATEST OLYPIAN.
plus he’s handson and very cute.
but is he single????
He’s the greatest Olympian.. This guy is a legend.
Do I think Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all-time? Huh the facts, I mean medals, are there and speak for themselves. Damn right he is lol.
And I don’t understand how he looks hot when he’s in the water but out of it, he’s just mad ug… so not cute. Maybe it’s the cap =/
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