Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The Greatest Olympian ever- Michael Phelps

In 2004 Athens Olympics, he won 8 medals, 6 Gold and 2 Bronze. He wasn't "happy" about the two bronze medals so he decided to work on where he lost seconds or less. It wasn't the end of the world for him but it was something he could manage and fix . Preparations for the next Olympic was already getting ready in his brain cells. Four years past and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he collected what was "his", won 8 GOLD medals. WoW.... That was everybody's reaction. Unbelievable, amazing, unthinkable.... Something like that hasn't been done in decades. Now he owned 16 medals at age of 23 years old. What can you call this young man? Superman? As in the best athlete ever to exist? Some call him The Flying Fish, others The Baltimore Bullet. BBC commentator called him after what happened in 2012 London Olympics for a pure fish, "look at him, he looks like a fish and his body reminds you of a fish". Why ? What happened in London? He won 1 GOLD medal, that's 17, and 2 Silver medals which adds up to 19 Olympics Medals. That's the most Olympic medals a person has ever won. Michael Phelps, the one and only athlete in the history with 19 Olympics medals. 15 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze. He equaled and surpassed the Russian gymnast, Larisa Latynina who hold the all-time Olympic record medals with 18 medals. Buuuuuut is this it? No far from it, Mr. Phelps is not quite done yet, he still got up to three events left. Everybody who's alive and following the Olympics is part of the history that's being made here in London. Stay tuned, we'll let you know what happens.

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