It's 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold
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mr__skyline
Yeah. Lucky #8. And a TEAM effort at that!
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VOR
“The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time—Michael Phelps of the USA,”
"He set seven world records and one Olympic record, doing a personal best time in every event."
"Phelps received another award from FINA, the sport’s governing body, as the best swimmer of the meet."
"Make it the best ever."
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pathat
**It's 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold **
Congratulations, Michael Phelps! You are the greatest of Olympic champions, and you make all Americans very proud!
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Smythe
Just one question, if you do not mind, but how many other medals are there within his grasp? Michael Phelps has pretty well shocked the world.
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RomeoRamenII
USA!! USA!! USA!!
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rajakumar
8 Gold medals record and 7 world records by Phelps. Mark Spitz's record, tumbles. 14 medals in total, the highest ever record for a swimmer, in olympics.
Phelps should use his talents/money to promote swimming worldwide.
He should be the number 1 ambassador of swimming sport, like Pele is, for football.
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noborito
the man can swim
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FrEcKlEfAcE
You think Phelps would trade any one of his medals or world records for a couple of hours of missed childhood memories? LOL No way...
An unbelievable sports accomplishment!!!
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rajakumar
Swimming needs pioneer stars to really make, the sport's popularity boom like football. Phelps can help to make the sport boom globally.
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RomeoRamenII
America once again leads the way.
Michael Phelps is gr-EIGHT!!!!!!!!
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SushiSake3
This is a freaking **awesome **achievement - well done!!!!!
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franknbeans
I can't wait to hear the naysayers now. Phelps has proven again and again why he is the greatest ever. No one can dispute his accomplishments. They trancend nationality, race, or origin.
Truly, he is the greatest ever.
Go USA. Go Phelps!
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SushiSake3
"Nothing is impossible," Phelps said. "With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination, and that's something I learned and something that helped me."
Bring it on!!!
Awesome stuff!
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USNinJapan2
franknbeans
Maybe she's finally realized how asinine she was accusing Phelps of doping and cheating? : )
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toolongheremaybe
Man, what can you say about him and what he has done. Incredible. His individual races, PLUS the relays. From an Aussie who would prefer to see us win, congratulations. Fantastic effort by his teammates in the relays who helped him make history. I can't think of anything in sporting history tops what he and his American teammates did in these last few days. One of the best things I read about him is how Ian Thorpe said that he couldn't get 7 and neither could anyone get 7 golds in this modern era. Phelps posted that quote to his locker door. He is one guy whose motivational book I'd like to read.
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SuperLib
Congrats, Phelps. You're an inspiration to everyone.
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franknbeans
USNinJapan2
Nah, people like that never realize. It like the saying goes, when everyone is laughing and you can't figure out what is funny, you are probably the joke.
All that aside, it is wonderful having Phelps come through against all challangers and all the sceptics. He did it clean, classy, and with style.
If the Serbians had shown that kind of class, win or lose, then I would not feel as triumphant as I do now.
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romulus3
he got lucky in the butterfly but it seems his will was more powerful than the fingertips of his opponents. Oh to have such willpower.
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Triple888
Yawn...
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helloklitty
Phelps's achievement has been ranked as the greatest ever (Lance Armstrong 2nd) by the readers of ESPN.com. I'm really glad he did it. I just read the other day about how one of his teachers put him down for being hyperactive in class and complained that he couldn't focus. How many readers here have had a student like that. Probably everyone. This great achievement just goes to show that you never know which one of your students is going to go on to greatness. I'd guess the wilder ones always do better no matter what field they choose.
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Sarge
Congratulations to Phelps. Too bad NHK didn't cover this. All they had on today's news was an interview with the Japanese relay team who got a bronze medal.
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romulus3
Triple888
Yawns, because of a lack of willpower.
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franknbeans
Triple888
Yawns because he is still waiting for HIS country to win.
4 more years of yawning. kawaii so
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jbro888
good job phelps. However, I dont believe he is the best olympian just because he got the most medals.
You cant really have # of medals = better you know
Take judo for example, how many medals could a judo player achieve in his sport? 1,2? swimming? lots!
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roomtemperature
"You are the greatest of Olympic champions, and you make all Americans very proud!"
Well, thank God there's Michael Phelps then.
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sappquest
he is not the greatest olympian of all time. there is a good article on bbc that comments on this too.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/nationalaquaticscentre_beiji.html). When you consider sports with facilities and coaching that are accessible to a wider proportion of persons worldwide, someone from track and field or football would be more likely to get that title.
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franknbeans
Of course BBC would say otherwise.
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Wolfpack
Phelps has been really incredible. There is always a bit of luck involved in sports but he has shown versatility and endurance in besting Mark Spitz's long-standing record number of golds.
It's very difficult to compare Phelp's athletic achievements to great ahtelete's in other sports. Most would agree that he is now the obvious choice of greatest swimmer of all time, but it's still hard to argue the case for Phelps as greatest athlete of all time because his career is still not yet over. He has stated that he will not try to go for eight medals again in London in 2012, but should he get four or five more medals (ie. world championships) then that would augment his stature in comparison to other greats in the sports world.
There are many other factors in this debate based on the nature of the various sports. Some include a great deal of subjectivity (ie. gymnastics and figure skating) while others simply measure how fast an athlete is or how far an athlete can throw an object. Some are not nearly as rigorous as others (ie. badmitten and shooting); these are more like skills than athletic endeavors in my opinion. Also, some athlete's are participating in team sports as opposed to individual sports. It can be said that having strong teammates can augment the abilities of an individual. Conversely, weak teammates can make the very good athlete appear to be great by comparison.
If Phelps isn't the greatest of all time at this point in his career, he is definately right there at the top.
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mindovermatter
Really, Really, Really surprised to even see this kind of story on JT, let alone at the very top of the page.
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flammenwerfer
Yeah whatever.
Anyway how about The Phelps Diet? the man would be a morbidly obese slob if he wasn't the phenomenal athlete that he is, burning away mad calories.
Check out what powered him to 8 golds. Phelps wakes up at about 5am and sits down to a breakfast of three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. He follows that with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelette, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
At lunch, he puts away about half a kilo of pasta, before tucking into two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. To help wash that down he drinks another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really goes to town, with another half kilo of pasta and an entire pizza for good measure. And don't forget another 1,000 calories in energy drinks.
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mindovermatter
Yeah whatever. Anyway how about The Phelps Diet? the man would be a morbidly obese slob if he wasn't the phenomenal athlete that he is, burning away mad calories.
This was in the news about 2 weeks ago...
Most people can't handle these kinds of calories... It depends on your lifestyle...
If all you do is go to work, smoke cigarettes, drink beer & eat... Then you are one of them that will become morbidly obese, if not already...
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fatloser
How can people get so excited about this????????????????? He won in a suit that he can't even put on by himself. Mark Spitz won 7 medals in a pair of waterproof underwear. There shouldn't be any comparison to the two champions. The Razor suit will destroy swimming!!! It's bad for sports like corked bats and horseshoes in boxing gloves.
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cleo
Fair's fair, his rivals were also wearing suits they couldn't put on by themselves, so out of the field of swimmers he swam against in this year's Olympics, he's the fastest swimmer without a doubt.
You have a point about the comparison between Phelps and Spitz, though. With advances in sports training techniques, facilities and yes rubber swimming suits, there has to be some dubiousness in a straight comparison over a distance of 36 years. But in terms of straight numbers, there's no denying that 8 is bigger than 7. And whoever breaks Phelp's record in the future is going to have their work cut out for them, whether they can put their swimsuit on by themselves or have to have it sprayed on.
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fatloser
One Chinese girl wore a regular swim suit and didn't win her race, but she won by RESPECT! It is sad to see standards dropped so that a few companies can profit.
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rtrhead1
fatloser, did you watch any of it? fly, no suit. relay, no suit. half of his races didn't even have them on.
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rtrhead1
yeah, the suit in the picture at the top is so tight you can't even see it!
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rtrhead1
by facilities, you mean pools with high tech water?
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boobug
Phelps is simply "the" story of these Olympics. Too bad the Japanese media missed the boat with extremely poor coverage of this monumental event. Congratulations to Phelps and the USA for it's unique culture that encourages top rate performances from it's people. Well done !
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roomtemperature
Let's go back to his 7th gold.
First.....why were the officials of FINA the biggest cheerleaders of Phelps? They are supposed to be the neutral governing body in this sport.
Phelps won by 100th of second. So how is it that the official timekeeper of the event is the same company that sponsors Phelps since 2004?
Shame on you FINA and IOC to allow athletes' official sponsors to also be the timekeepers of the events where those athletes appear.
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boobug
"why were the officials of FINA the biggest cheerleaders of Phelps? They are supposed to be the neutral governing body in this sport."
Because they obviously understood the "magnitutde" of the event and wanted to be apart of Olympic history, much like everyone (well almost everyone) else.
"Phelps won by 100th of second. So how is it that the official timekeeper of the event is the same company that sponsors Phelps since 2004?"
Weak attempt here. You'd be better off arguing about the suits and pool conditions that have allowed for so many world records in the swimming events. But when all is said and done you simply come off sounding like a whiner, a disgruntled non-American that can't accept the results. Sorry, but the rest of us can ! What a performance ! One for the ages, and once again it's the Americans stealing the show. U-S-A !
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Nessie
I've heard of passing gas and passing kidney stones, but never of passing spits.
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Blue_Tiger
Phelps is a swimming machine!!! Way to go Mike!!!!
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