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The machinery is fully cranked. Cameras are aimed, stories are in process (including one in Sports Illustrated), video packages have been assembled. In just over two months, the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will unfold in Vancouver and one U.S. skier will play the role of Michael Phelps, the athlete who can win multiple gold medals over the course of the Games, while delivering eyeballs to ...
Michael Phelps is ready to put an up-and-down post-Olympic year behind him and focus on the challenges that await in 2010, including adjusting to a ban on the high-performance suits that rocked his sport. The 14-time Olympic gold medalist will compete in one final meet, Duel in the Pool on Dec. 18-19 in Manchester, England, before closing out the year. "The biggest thing right now is me getting ...
Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and world champion Federica Pellegrini will compete for Europe against the United States at next month's Duel in the Pool. The American team for the Dec. 18-19 meet at Manchester Aquatics Centre includes 14-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps. Adlington is among 14 British swimmers in the 36-member European team.
World champions Ryan Lochte and Rebecca Soni have won male and female athlete of the year awards at the Golden Goggles honoring the year's top American swimming performances. Michael Phelps won for male race of the year Sunday night and shared a relay award after earning a leading six nominations.
Beijing Olympic star Michael Phelps insisted Sunday he would use his poor form at Berlin's world record-laden shortcourse World Cup meet as future motivation with an eye on the London 2012 Games.
Michael Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is not expecting to produce any eye-popping displays at this weekend's World Cup event in the German capital.
If you follow swimming much in a non-Olympic year -- which, understandably, you probably don't -- then you've likely heard something about what a miserable time Michael Phelps has had in Sweden and Germany the past two weeks.
Darian Townsend of South Africa beat Michael Phelps on Sunday to break the short-course world record in the 200-meter individual medley.
Sporting a beard and an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps finished third in the 100-meter medley at a World Cup short-course meet after missing out on two other finals Tuesday.
Michael Phelps' poor run of form continued Sunday as he came second in the 200m individual medley at the shortcourse World Cup while his arch-rival Paul Biedermann broke the 200m freestyle world record.
Olympic star Michael Phelps will be out for revenge against Germany's Paul Biedermann when the pair clash in Berlin in the fifth leg of the short-course World Cup here on Saturday and Sunday
Michael Phelps is gearing up for a weekend showdown with Paul Biedermann at the World Cup in Berlin. Biedermann beat Phelps in the 200 freestyle in August.
Out-of-shape swimming superstar Michael Phelps again struggled as an unprecedented 16 records were set at the World Cup short-course event in Berlin this weekend.
Michael Phelps admitted Saturday he is in poor form after another disappointing performance saw him finish fifth in the men's 200m butterfly final as world records tumbled here at the shortcourse World Cup meet.
Spitz's lip duped Russians Mark Spitz insists he wasn't bitter last year when he lost swimming's most sacred record to Michael Phelps, who remade Olympic history with eight gold medals -- one more than Spitz won in 1972. "It's sort of like I'm the first man on the moon. He's the second man on the moon. He collected more rocks," Spitz told The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo., last week. The ...
Racing in an old-style swimsuit and with little practice, Michael Phelps didn't join the swimmers in high-tech suits who went on a world record binge at two short-course World Cup meets this week. Phelps had to settle for second place in the 200-meter... Michael Phelps - sport - World Cup - 2008 Summer Olympics - Gold medal
