Michael Phelps

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“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.”

How Michael Phelps Spoils the Rest of Us

Pretty much everyone knows Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. They are titans of the sport, and they carry relevance outside…

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Swimmers define Dominance in Rio

Counting finals swims only, Katinka Hosszu’s world-record-smashing 400 IM was by far the most dominant swim of night one.

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Day 4 Relay Lineups: Lochte Makes Rio Debut In 800 Free Relay Prelims

2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Swimming: August 6-13 Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro…

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Le Clos Shadowboxes Phelps, Reminds Him of London 2012

In this article, Charles Hartley imagines what it was like inside the mind of Chad le Clos as he prepared for the mens semi final in the 200 fly last night.

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Updating Relay Projections: Americans Now Favored In Both Medleys

Abbey Weitzeil’s huge split on the 4×100 free relay gives a spark of hope to an American medley relay originally projected to take silver.

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2016 Rio Olympic Games: Day Three Finals Live Recap

The heated grudge-match between Lilly King and Yulia Efimova will take place last night.

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Watch: Underwater Camera Feed of Men’s 4×100 Free Relay

Watch the entire men’s 4×100 free relay like you were hanging on the bottom of the pool deck, thanks to a new video NBC has posted.

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Watch: Alternate Race Video of USA Men’s 4×100 Free Relay

You can now watch alternate footage of the USA’s victory in the men’s 4×100 free relay.

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#PhelpsFace Trends Nationally on Twitter After Monster Staredown

There are game faces….and then there is Michael Phelps‘ game face. Some 10 hours after swimming in the semi-finals of…

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Day 4 Relay Speculation: Phelps Makes Strong Case For Men’s 4×200 Free

Michael Phelps has made a compelling case to swim in the final of the men’s 4×200 free relay.

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Yulia Efimova – nach Silber von Konkurrentinnen ignoriert

Gestern fand in Rio das Finale über die 100 m Brust der Damen statt – mit der Russin Yulia Efimova….

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North America Recap Day 3: Ryan Murphy Extends U.S. Streak In 100 Back

Ryan Murphy extended the Americans streak to six consecutive gold medals in the men’s 100 backstroke.

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Rio Rapid Fire: Day Three Finals

Repping the stars n’ stripes Ryan Murphy of the USA managed to continue a longstanding tradition of American excellence in the 100m backstroke with a gold medal performance. His 51.97 makes him the fastest textile swimmer of all time in the event and ranks as the second fastest performance ever only behind Aaron Peirsol’s world record.

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Phelps Becomes the First to Reach Five Consecutive Finals

By qualifying for the 200 butterfly final Michael Phelps becomes the first swimmer to make the Olympic final in the same event in five consecutive Games…

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2016 Rio Olympic Games: Day Three Prelims Live Recap

Michael Phelps will be competing in the heats of the men’s 200m butterfly shortly after where he’s not exactly the favorite. It looks to be a three man race right now between Phelps and his two rivals: Chad le Clos of South Africa and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary. Both have said their fair share of talk about Phelps making this one of the most anticipated races of the games.

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