perhaps the greatest olympic feat of all time, michael phelps just finished his seventeenth race in just nine days - something that has never been done before. nine of those races were qualifications so that he could swim in the finals. he didn't necessarily win the qualifications - but dang, he sure did win the finals. that's not even mentioning that in those eight finals, he set eight new records! seven world records, and one olympic record.
the next closest olympic swimmer to phelps was spitz, in '72, in the munich olympic games, with seven gold medals; michael reached his seventh gold by out-touching second-place cavic by .001! notice off in the picture, michael is on the LEFT.
anyways, here are phelps' (which i have to say, i keep typing pehlps...) races and times:
400 m individual medley, 4:07.22
4 x 100 m freestyle relay. 3:08.24
200 m freestyle, 1:42.96
200 m butterfly, 1:52.03
4 x 200 m freestyle relay, 6:58.56
200 m individual medley, 1:54.23
100 m butterfly, 50.58
4 x 100 m medley relay, 3:29.34
yeah. i love the olympics.
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