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Post by ArmandTamsarian on Aug 12, 2008 20:13:26 GMT
Fuck India and GB. Michael fucking Phelps. What a man. 3 golds with 3 World Records. I hope he gets all 8. If one man can win 8 Gold medals at one games it says to me that there are to many similar swimming events. He will win more medals than most countries. Its bollocks. It belittles the efforts of athletes in other sports....I hope he sinks.  |
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Post by kokka78 on Aug 13, 2008 10:32:42 GMT
Michael Phelps has become the most successful Olympian of all time, winning the 10th and 11th gold medals of his career on Wednesday.
The American sensation initially powered home in a world record time of one minute 52.03 seconds in the men's 200m butterfly final to collect his fourth gold at the Beijing Games, adding to the six he picked up in Athens in 2004.
Phelps then returned to the pool in the 4x200m freestyle relay, helping the USA quartet to a comprehensive victory and his fifth gold of the summer and 11th overall.
Having led off his team on the first leg, Phelps' team-mates Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay carried on where he left off by clocking a new world record time of 6:58.56, the first time the seven-minute barrier has been broken.
In a thrilling battle for the other medals, Russia claimed silver ahead of Australia, with Britain's quartet of David Carry, Andrew Hunter, Robert Renwick and Ross Davenport setting a new British record of 7:05.92 in sixth.
Individual triumph
In his history-making butterfly success, which gave him an unprecedented 10th Olympic gold, the 23-year-old led from the halfway point but was made to battle hard to finish ahead of Hungary's Laszlo Cseh and Japan's Takeshi Matsuda.
After the victory Phelps didn't look to happy but he revealed it was due to a problem with his goggles.
He said: "I couldn't see anything for the last 100m, my goggles pretty much filled up with water.
"It just kept getting worse and worse through the race and I was having trouble seeing the walls to be honest. But it's fine. I wanted to break the record and wanted to go 1:51 or better but in the circumstances I guess it's not too bad."
Both triumphs keep Phelps on target to eclipse Mark Spitz's record of seven golds at one Games.
Honoured
It now takes Phelps above and beyond the previous best haul of nine gold medals for an Olympian, and he admitted that he was thinking about his new title as the most successful athlete ever at teh Games.
"I'm almost at a loss for words," said Phelps.
"To be the most decorated Olympian of all time, it just sounds weird. I am speechless.
"It started to sink in a little after the butterfly. I was trying to focus on my next race but I kept thinking 'Wow. Greatest Olympian of all time.' It's a pretty neat title and I'm definitely honoured.
"When you have an Olympic gold medal it stays with you forever. It never gets
old listening to your national anthem with a gold medal around your neck."
AMAZING......there's not other words to describe him
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Post by stretfordendling on Aug 13, 2008 13:28:17 GMT
He is truly amazing but swimming is one of the most exploited sports out there unfortunately  |
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Post by jigglymarina on Aug 13, 2008 14:50:16 GMT
I know this is really getting old,but come one, isn't it weird that all of a sudden all those WRs are being broken? I mean, almost on a daily basis!
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Post by Supatrice> on Aug 13, 2008 15:10:18 GMT
I know this is really getting old,but come one, isn't it weird that all of a sudden all those WRs are being broken? I mean, almost on a daily basis! I think it's very odd too. I have had my suspicions, and it's more obvious than ever, Dolphins have been impersonating humans and competing in the swimming events. Complete disregard of the rules. Bastards. |
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Post by Tatty on Aug 13, 2008 17:47:47 GMT
I know this is really getting old,but come one, isn't it weird that all of a sudden all those WRs are being broken? I mean, almost on a daily basis! Not a reader then? This pool is specifically designed to break World Records. It's the deepest and widest pool ever made, it also has a drainage system, so when the water is displaced whilst doing any stoker the water fills into these drains, therefore the water being displaced isn't going back into the pool and hampering swimmers, swimming fast. |
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Post by redom on Aug 13, 2008 17:57:37 GMT
^^ Also there's been a fairly major upgrage in the suits they wear recently so there's been a number of records that were broken before the games, combine that to the pool and they have pretty much everything in their favour in Beijing so WR's are being set daily.
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Post by Gapi on Aug 13, 2008 19:04:10 GMT
It's that new Speedo swimming wear.
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Post by moxdevil on Aug 13, 2008 20:34:06 GMT
^^ Also there's been a fairly major upgrage in the suits they wear recently so there's been a number of records that were broken before the games, combine that to the pool and they have pretty much everything in their favour in Beijing so WR's are being set daily. They should try to get rid of the drag that going through water creates...lose the water, be even quicker then. |
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Post by Marwick on Aug 14, 2008 3:34:55 GMT
Haha theres been so much stuff in this thread i've laughed at, too much to quote, favourite is whoever said about the dolphins, haha i was pissing myself at that.
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Post by redsoldier on Aug 14, 2008 9:31:57 GMT
Good on the aussie 4x200m team earlier today.
Steph rice <3
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Post by Coogie on Aug 14, 2008 10:57:22 GMT
He is truly amazing but swimming is one of the most exploited sports out there unfortunately He's alright! But what I want to know... is can he do the worm |
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Post by jigglymarina on Aug 14, 2008 16:10:45 GMT
I know this is really getting old,but come one, isn't it weird that all of a sudden all those WRs are being broken? I mean, almost on a daily basis! Not a reader then? This pool is specifically designed to break World Records. It's the deepest and widest pool ever made, it also has a drainage system, so when the water is displaced whilst doing any stoker the water fills into these drains, therefore the water being displaced isn't going back into the pool and hampering swimmers, swimming fast.  I had no idea about that! Is that even by the books? i mean, how can they just change the pools? To make the competition more interesting? It's not really fair that today's swimmers have better conditions than past ones. In that case, you can never compare Phelps to Mark Spitz, since everything has changed since then! |
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Post by andoverred on Aug 14, 2008 17:32:43 GMT
Phelps might yet be denied by Serbian Milorad Cavic, who qualified fastest for the 100m Butterfly. The Serbian got close to the World Record; therefore looks like a cracking final in store. Apparently, some of the female swimmers have done some swimsuit videos, attracting huge hits on Youtube - not that I've checked them out.....yet.  |
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Post by united4lyf on Aug 14, 2008 17:36:48 GMT
Federer was knocked out of the tennis by James Blake. Not going well for him this year. andoverred, you're watching those videos right now aren't you?  |
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