Tag: Michael Phelps
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Michael Phelps in Mesa helping teach kids to swim, raise money for cancer research
Michael Phelps was in Mesa helping kids learn how to swim as part of Swim Across America. Part of the effort was to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
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Swimmer Caeleb Dressel Says Michael Phelps Texted Him After Crushing His Record
Caeleb Dressel is the one to watch in the upcoming 2020 Olympics! The 22-year-old American swimmer got a surprising text after crushing Michael Phelps’ record. Caeleb opened up to Access Hollywood about the huge accomplishment, and revealed that Michael texted him and told him congrats! Caeleb also details how he is getting ready to take…
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‘Miracle Man’ Lezak Reveals How He Made Phelps’ Record Haul a Reality
Jason Lezak made the impossible possible on 11 August 2008. When the USA swimmer hit the water in the anchor leg of the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final, he was more than half-a-body length behind France’s Alain Bernard – the man who had gone into the race as the 100m freestyle world record holder. Teammate Michael Phelps’ uber-hyped assault…
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Swimming Men – 200m Butterfly | Top Moments | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju
This is a fantastic new World Record from 19-year old Kristóf Milák of Hungary at the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju. In the Men’s 200m Fly, Milák beat Michael Phelps’ old mark of 1:51.51, set a decade ago in Rome, with a new time of 1:50.73…Outstanding! #Swimming #FINAGwangju2019
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Michael Phelps shares his experience with mental health | Mic Dispatch
Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated professional athletes in history. But for years, the Olympic swimmer secretly struggled with mental health and substance abuse issues.
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We celebrated Michael Phelps’s genetic differences. Why punish Caster Semenya for hers?
For about a decade — a time that Olympic historians may someday classify as “the Michael Phelps era†— I’ve been reading about the unique genetic blessings bestowed upon the greatest swimmer to ever live. Phelps possesses a disproportionately vast wingspan, for example. Double-jointed ankles give his kick unusual range. In a quirk that borders on supernatural,…
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“The (Swimming) Race of the Century” at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games | Throwback Thursday
Enjoy this look back at the Men’s 200m Freestyle final the Summer Olympic Games in Athens 2004, also known as “the Race of the Century” in Olympic swimming or “the greatest swimming race of all time”. Featuring some of the most iconic Olympic swimmers of all time, Ian Thorpe, Pieter van den Hoogenband, and Michael…