Olympic Swimming- Michael Phelps

I like the Stevenson Swim Team. I like the Olympic swimming even better, because I get to meet new people & swim in the Olympics with lots of men, including Michael Phelps. He is the best American swimmer in the USA. He had won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian, and is often known as the greatest swimmer and one of the greatest Olympians of all time. In August, 2nd, 2009, Phelps had broken 37 World Records in Swimming. He & I have so much in common about swimming, Michael Phelps does Freestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly, IM (Individual Medley). For the Freestyle, he did 200 m freestyle, 4x100 m freestyle relay, 4x200 m freestyle relay, 100 m freestyle. For the backstroke, he did 200 m backstroke. For the butterfly, he did 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 200 yd butterfly. For the IM: he did 400 m individual medley, 4x100 m medley relay, 200 m Individual Medley. Phelps's international titles and record breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Award in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and American Swimmer of the Year award in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. He had won a total of fifty-four career medals thus far in major international competition, forty-five gold, seven silver, and two bronze spanning the Olympic, the World and the Pan Pacific Championships. My events I can do is 50 Freestyle latest timing is 35 seconds, Breaststroke, 4x200 yd freestyle. At the 2009 World aquatics award, He won a total of 6 medals, 5 golds & 1 silver. , Phelps swam the leadoff leg in 47.78, well off his 47.51 performance in Beijing but the American team was able to edge out Russia and France for the gold. For his second race, the 200 m freestyle, Phelps lost his first race in four years to Germany's Paul Biedermann. Phelps touched second in 1:43.22 but Biedermann smashed Phelps' record of 1:42.96 set in Beijing a year ago with a time of 1:42.00. Phelps took the silver graciously, but coach Bob Bowman threatened to withdraw Phelps from international competition because Bowman claimed Biedermann had an unfair advantage because he was wearing a full polyurethane swim suit, specifically an Arena X-Glide. Bowman said, "It took me five years to get Michael from 1:46 to 1:42 and this guy has done it in 11 months. That's an amazing training performance. I'd like to know how to do that. Phelps rebounded from this loss and for his third race, the 200 m butterfly.

Phelps has won 16 Olympic medals: six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008. In doing so he has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. His five golds in individual events tied the single Games record set by Eric Heiden in the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games. Phelps career Olympic medal total is second only to the 18 Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won over three Olympics, including nine gold.