🪆 2008 Summer Olympics Michael Phelps

Phelpsstunned the World in the 2000 Olympics by qualifying for the Sydney Games at the age of 15. Even though he did not win any medal in his first appearance, his qualification for the Summer Games at the age of 15 was a record in itself. He then became the youngest male swimmer to get selected in America’s Olympic swim team in 68 years Hestarted Michael Phelps Foundation after the 2008 Summer Olympics to promote swimming and healthier lifestyle. After the 2008 Summer Olympics, he became Sports Illustrated magazine’s Sportsman of the The28-time Olympic medalist made the journey to Tokyo — but not to swim. For 16 years, when sports fans would tune into the Summer Olympics, they'd see none other than Michael Phelps. The all MichaelPhelps swam 1:54.84 to win the 200 fly and secure a spot on his fifth Olympic team. 384 athletes in history have made five Olympic teams, a list including only 14 swimmers. TheGames of the XXIX Olympiad, involving some 200 Olympic committees and as many as 13,000 accredited athletes competing in 28 different sports, were auspiciously scheduled to begin at 8:08 pm Phelpswon a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, four years after he won six gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He has received numerous Phelpswent to Rio for his fifth Summer Olympics in 2016, continuing to win gold after gold. Here, he competes in the men’s 200m butterfly on August 9, 2016. Michael Phelps gold medals CNNInternational's Coverage of the Olympics Send, share, see your stories on CNN We want to see your individual perspective on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Inthe final race of the evening, Ryan Murphy gave the U.S. a huge lead with a record pace backstroke. Cody Miller took over for the breaststroke before giving way to Phelps for the butterfly, who WatchMichael Phelps dominate the 200m free Olympic swimming final with a brilliant performance and new world record of 1:42.96. Aug. 2414. Michael Phelps, sometimes known as Michael Fred Phelps II, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 1985. Phelps was an American swimmer who won the most medals in Olympic history, with 28 medals, 23 gold. He made history by being the first athlete to win eight gold medals in a single Olympics event at the 2008 Beijing Mostgold medals won in a single Olympics. Michael Phelps’s record of eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics - he won gold in every event he took part in - stands as the record for most Olympic golds won in a single edition of the Summer Games. with American athletes having won a record 83 gold medals at the 1984 Summer Phelpsearned Sportsman of the Year award due to his unprecedented Olympic success in the 2008 Games. After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Phelps started the Michael MichaelPhelps won the event after coming from behind Serbia's Milorad Cavic, to beat him by one one-hundredth of a second. Australian Andrew Lauterstein won MichaelPhelps holds the record of winning the most gold medals at a single edition of a summer Olympics. At Bejing Olympics 2008, Phelps clinched gold in men’s 200m freestyle, men’s 4x100m .

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