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"I'm in it for the long haul," [Michael Phelps] said Sunday. "I am so grateful for everything I have -- for my talent, for my competitive drive, for my want... I saw my mom for just a minute out there and she was crying, I was crying, my sister was crying. Just thinking back to all the things that have happened along the way. My English teacher, I think it was in middle school, saying, 'You'll never be successful.' "
"I've written down a lot of goals, and this is the biggest one I ever wrote down," Phelps said. "And I've achieved it, everything I set out to do. These guys (on the relay team) made it possible. The whole thing, every race, from winning by one-hundredth of a second (Saturday) to finishing it off with a world record. It's an amazing experience and something I'll have forever.""Will we ever see a thing like Michael again?" said [Aaron Peirsol], laughing at his use of the word thing. "I mean, 36 years ago, there was [Mark Spitz]. And we've heard a lot of things called 'Spitzian' accomplishments. Now, they'll be calling them 'Phelpsian.' "See the full content of this document
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Put Phelps Atop the All-Time Olympic Podium
By Cam Cole
BEIJING -- The naysayers argue that Michael Phelps's eight gold medals and seven world records in one stupendous Beijing Olympic swim meet do not make him the greatest Olympian in history.It's all breathless, NBC-fuelled American hype, they say. We have swallowed it whole. So he sw...See the full content of this document
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