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Michael Phelps Gets His 8th Gold!

james pong — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:50:23 +0000

Michael Phelps smiles with his 8th Gold (Photo credit: Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal in the Men’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay final on Sunday with some help from his friends and thus, broke Mark Spitz’s record of seven golds in one Olympic Games.

The US team of Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Jason Lezak and Phelps won at the National Aquatics Center in a time of 3:29.34 and in doing so broke the world record by 1.34 seconds.

Congratulations to Phelps! Now, everyone, start swimming by getting the swim suits.

Michael Phelps Wins His 7th Gold at Beijing 2008 Olympic

james pong — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:54:37 +0000

Michael Phelps won his seventh gold in the Men’s 100m Butterfly final at the National Aquatics Center on Saturday. His feat equal Mark Spitz (also from USA) as the only person ever to have won seven gold medals at a summer Olympic. Phelps already surpassed Mark Spitz in terms of number of World Records at an Olympic Games with five world records in Individual Olympic events.

After creating history by winning his 10th and 11th Olympic Golds on Wednesday, Michael Phelps just needs one more gold to take over Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals and create a record that’s almost impassable, especially when Phelps is just 23 years of age — he has at least one more Olympic to come.

Michael Phelps Wins His 10th & 11th Olympic Golds

james pong — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:55:40 +0000

Michael Phelps created history by becoming the first person to win 10th and 11th golds in Olympic Games.