Gold Medal Winner Michael Phelps

Let’s learn more about the fantastic Michael Phelps. Hi full name is: Michael Fred Phelps and his nickname is The Baltimore Bullet. He is from the United States and he specializes in swimming the: Backstroke, butterfly, freestyle and individual medley. He was born on June 30, 1985  in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall. He has set records in Men’s swimming as a Competitor for the  United States. He was in the Olympic Games in Athens. Most recently, he won the Gold medal in 2008 in Beijing for: the 100 m butterfly, the 200 m butterfly, the 200 m medley, the 400 m medley, the 200 m freestyle, the 4×100 m freestyle, the 4×200 m freestyle and the 4×100 m medley. Since then, he has won more gold medals in 2009 and in 2010. In total, he has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian. As of August 2, 2009, Phelps has broken thirty-eight world records in swimming. He also holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics, his eight at the 2008 Beijing Games surpassed American swimmer Mark Spitz’s seven-gold performance at Munich in 1972.
He was born and raised in the Lake Point area of Baltimore County, Maryland. His father Fred was a football player and his mother Deborah Sue Phelps is a middle school principal. He began swimming at age seven, partly because of the influence of his sisters and partly to provide him with an outlet for his energy. In his youth, Phelps was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
As an interesting story during the 2008 Olympics, Unlike all six of his previous events in the 2008 Games, Phelps did not set a new world record, leaving Ian Crocker’s world record time of 50.40 seconds, set in 2005, intact. He finished 0.01-second finish ahead of Čavić which prompted the Serbian delegation to file a protest. AN analysis confirmed Phelps’s victory. The one who lost, Čavić, later wrote in his blog: “People, this is the greatest moment of my life. If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been”. “It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he’s maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He’s the greatest racer who ever walked the planet.” —Mark Spitz (on Phelps winning his 7th gold medal)
Phelps’s seventh gold medal of the Games tied Mark Spitz’s record for gold medals won in a single Olympic Games, set in the 1972 Olympics. “Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible … I am sort of in a dream world. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure it is real.” – Michael Phelps.
On August 17, Phelps won his eighth gold medal in the men’s 4×100 m medley relay, breaking Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals won in a single Olympic Games, which had stood since 1972. Said Phelps, upon completing the event that awarded him his eighth gold medal and eighth Olympic record in as many events, “Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are … Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.” This young man is quite an inspiration for us all.