Phelps Creates History!! Crosses Spitz Record of 7!

Phelps became the first man to win eight gold medals at the one Olympics

Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.

Jason Lezak held on to the lead Phelps gave him, anchoring the United States to a world record in the 400-meter medley relay against an Australian team that did its best to spoil history.

But Phelps, with a big hand from three teammates, would not be denied. He eclipsed Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games, an iconic performance that was surpassed by a swimmer fitting of this generation: a 23-year-old from Baltimore who loves hip-hop music and texting with his buddies.

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Phelps now with SIXTH gold...2 to go!! Attaining Immortality

MICHAEL Phelps has won his sixth gold medal of the Olympic Games, taking out the 200m individual medley final in world-record time of 1min54.23.

Laszlo Cseh of Hungary was second, 2.29sec behind Phelps and Ryan Lochte of the United States third.

Cseh challenged Phelps over the first 100m, but Phelps smashed the field in the breaststroke leg and then swam away in the last 50m.

Tomorrow, Phelps will swim in the final of the 100m butterfly to tie Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals.

On Sunday his last event will be the men's 4x100m medley relay.
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Shark strikes again.......now with 11 golds.

Greatest Olympian: America's Michael Phelps has won his fourth and fifth gold medals in Beijing and his 10th and 11th overall.Photo: Getty

Baltimore Bullet takes his Olympic gold medal tally to 11 over all .

The victory was not smooth for him. Laslo Cseh and Takeshi Matsuda tried their best to challenged him all the way in a thrilling finale to the men's 200 metres butterfly.

Phelps, who touched the wall in a world record time of 1 minute and 52.09 seconds, was physically exhausted and later he complained about his goggles.

"My goggles were filling up with water during the race, and I had trouble seeing the wall," he said.

"I wanted the world record. I wanted a 1:51 or better, but given the circumstances it's not too bad, I guess."

He ended the first race 4-for-4 in both, setting his latest world record in 1:52.03 and becoming the first athlete ever to win 10 Olympic gold medals.

Later he added an 11th, and fifth in these Olympics, grabbing an obscene lead while swimming the first leg of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay gold-medal team that also included Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay.

And yes, it set another world record, in 6:58.56, obliterating the previous record by 4.68 seconds, finishing more than 5 seconds ahead of runner-up Russia.

Aaron Peirsol Breaks his own world record in 100M backstroke

AMERICAN Aaron Peirsol smashed his own world record in defending his 100m backstroke Olympic crown yesterday.

The 25-year-old carved 0.35 seconds off his mark with a time of 52.54 and admitted his delight in a one-two American finish as Matt Grevers took silver in 53.11.

Russian Arkady Vyatchanin and Australian Hayden Stoeckel both took the bronze medal with a dead-heat of 53.18.

Peirsol, had lowered his own world record at the US trials in Omaha last month and the reigning world champion has now broken the 100m backstroke world mark five times since his victory in Athens four years ago.

But he said the exertion of winning his fourth Olympic gold medal took its toll.

“It doesn't get any easier, to be honest,” said Peirsol.

“The knowledge and experience you have done it once and can probably do it again does help. That is what I tried to keep in mind, but I really wanted to race and the guys around me pushed me to what I did today.”

“The best thing about it was having Matt right behind me, we wanted an American 1-2 finish.” – AFP.

Breaking News....Phelps again...

Phelps on fire...

Michael Phelps won his third gold medal breaking his own world record in the 200-meter freestyle at the Beijing Olympics.

The American touched in 1 minute, 42.96 seconds, lowering his old mark of 1:43.86 set at last year's world championships in Australia.

He made up to the wall nearly 2 seconds ahead of silver medalist Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, who finished in 1:44.85. American Peter Vanderkaay secured the bronze in 1:45.14.

Phelps now has nine career golds and now in competition with Mark Spitz and track star Carl Lewis, for most career golds.

He bagged 3 out of 3 now, with three world records, in his attempt to break Spitz's 36-year-old record of seven golds in a single games. Spitz set world records in each of his races at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Phelps' other victories were in the 400 individual medley and 400 freestyle relay.

WATCH HIM IN ACTION...

The American Shark Strikes!!!!

Michael Phelps is delighted to win gold in the men’s 400m individual medley

One Down, 7 To Go

The greatest swimmer in the world on Sunday demolished his own world record and all hopes of his challengers to claim the first of a possible historic eight swimming gold medals at the Beijing Games.
He clocked 4min 3.84sec beating his last best 4min 5sec!! He was cheered on by President George Bush!!!!

Ones to Watchout at The Games: Michael Phelps

Every day i will be posting about one great athlete and their achievements. These athletes are the strong contenders for Gold in Beijing Olympics Games 2008. So here goes the first one.

US swimmer Michael Phelps.
People say that his performances in Athens was just a dress rehearsal. He also called the Baltimore Bullet, 6 time Olympic Gold medalist will be hoping to surpass Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold at Munich. He's eager to perform at Beijing, apart from that he's even added a Chinese section to his website.
So lets wait and watch how the bullet fires!!!