OlderMichael Phelps: One More Gold To Rule Them All!
Swim-king Michael Phelps wins his 7th gold model of the 2008 Olympics games with a win in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday in Beijing, China.
Although Phelps, 23, has been used to winning by substantial margins, he proved he could win the tough race by eclipsing Milorad Cavic of Serbia by 0.01 seconds! Phelps finished the race in 50.58 seconds and for the first time, didn’t set a new world record.
American Ian Crocker, who is the current world record-holder, finished off the medal stand in fourth place.
Phelps now only needs a gold in his final 4×100 medley relay on Saturday night to win a record eight gold medals in one Olympics. He will surpass Mark Spitz, who initially set the record at 7 gold medals.
CONGRATS MICHAEL PHELPS! GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!
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god bless, michael phelps… and god bless the usa! we rock!
He is so amazing! Congrats, Michael!
i was wondering when you were going to post about the olympics :)
That last race definitely made me nervous, Phelps won by such a small margin. He is amazing!
phenomenal guy - absolutely blemin fabulous.
Seriously though. I just saw this live, and its extremely hard to say who really touched the wall first. Phelps won because of his long ass fingers. But congrats anyways. He deserves all the success he has earned.
ahah this is hilarious….i was watching the race live…the serb totally won…even the commentators said it on the instant replay (on NBC)…but it was pretty funny how afterwards they changed their tune and they started praising him!
to me it’s a kinda controversial win for phelps, but congrats to him…it’s not like he’s undeserving…
#7 what is wrong with you. Michael Phelps is over there in the Olympic representing his country just like all the other athletes representing their own country. These athletes have been training since they were kids with long hard hours every day. They should be respected as heros. They are not Hollowood and Broadway celebrities. To me they are more respected by worldwide than Hollowood and Broadway celebrities.
Congrat to Michael Phelps. USA are proud of you.
GOOOOOOO PHELPS ! =]
He is an exceptional swimmner but to say he is hot? come on! Not so much.
YES! GO MICHAEL PHELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
&& I was so happy that Nastia and Shawn took gold and silver yesterday at gymnastics!
USA is proving how great of a country we are!
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hes god
Jared, love the Olympics & Phelps coverage! Could we please have a post on Nastia Liukin & Shawn Johnson?
he is not overrated. michael phelps has been swimming since he was like 7 years old. personally i think the people that are overrated are celebs like brad and angie. and people who live in the paps cam lenses. not swimmers that are in the olympics. he is not overrated. he is a gorgeous and he won he touched the wall first they are probably sensors in the walls. football and baseball players now they are overrated.
And they say professional wrestling is crooked! The Serb won by at least a second!
your amazing…. congradulations !!!!!!!
We TIVO’d it and replayed it frame by frame at our house. Phelps definitely touched first, but if I hadn’t watched it in slo-mo, I would have never guessed. Thank goodness for the sensors in the wall so there cannot be any doubt or controversy over who won. LOVE IT! He won because he was smart enough to take another half stroke which gave him more momentum than just lunging like the Serb did. Even the Serb (who lives and trains in America) knew it was a done deal. It was his coach and team that were just going through the motions by protesting. What an exciting race.
The swimming races are determined by electronic touch. How can you think that in that second it takes the times to display that somehow it was rigged? Come on people, use your heads.
You Yanks are incredible! The Serbian is an American too! But he doesn’t have Speedo putting the tix in for him. Wake up you all!
Very gracious comments after the race by Mark Spitz. I was impressed.
Congratulations Michael. You are a human speedboat, go for 8 tomorrow.
ahaha HE DIDN’T WIN…you can CLEARLY SEE THE SERB TOUCHING THE WALL….and his hands are out of the water reaching towards the wall (there are sensors on the wall, whether or not the serb touched the wall hard enough for the sensors to go off…who knows…but on NBC, as soon as it happened they replayed it and the commentators said that “they got it wrong”…then 2 minutes later, after the americans started celebrating, they continued to replay it and changed their tune saying “OH WOW IT WAS SO CLOSE…HE’S AMAZING BLAH BLAH”….
good for phelps, he’s a phenomenal athlete….but to me the win just isn’t as special as it coulda been if he had CLEARLY won
GO MICHAEL! You are amazing and an inspiration to others! You can do it, I’ll be watching tomorrow. Try to find another article to fire you up! GOOOD LUCK !
CONGRATUALATIONS ON GETTING THIS FAR!
– alll gold + new WORLD records/OLYMPIC records!
-Lyna
he’s soooooooooo fast bug god is he fug or what
Congrats Michael! you are the best!
i thought he won 11 already????
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