photo courtsey:GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty ImagesI have decided not to come up with a heading for this blog. The name of the man, speaks for itself. I didn’t feel the need to add some adjective to highlight his merit, as the name itself will be synonymous with athletic brilliance. And why not, this young man from Baltimore, USA has conquered 8Olympic gold within a span of nine days, enroute making and breaking world records.
Beijing Olympics 2008 will be remembered for two things—Bird’s Nest stadium and Michael Phelps. This US swimmer has caught the attention of the entire world within a week. Every competition that he participated into has been a world record in this edition of summer Olympics. I won’t label him as the best Olympian ever, but he is in the league of the ‘Best Olympians’.
Nine days in the Beijing Olympics and his is the name that everyone round the globe has become familiar with. On Sunday, 17th August 2008, Phelps broke Mark Spitz’ record of winning of 7olympic gold in a single edition of the Summer Olympics. His 8th medal took the US gold medal tally to 17, still to catch up with China at 29.
Lots of buzz is around regarding how he is biologically perfectly built (the shape of his torso, his lungs hence can store maximum amount of oxygen, his ankle etc) which helps him in his game. But one thing I can see clearly, even though he may be biologically built to be good swimmer, he practiced real hard to make the most of those natural gifts.
The amount of practice he has put in, to be what he is today was revealed on Wednesday’s event when his glasses were filled with water; making him blind during the swim still he was able to complete the event first with a world record. Later it was revealed that Phelps exactly knew how many stroke it takes to reach the wall, so he did not panic. And he won two medals that day, within one hour--- first a 200-meter butterfly and one as part of the United States' winning 800-meter freestyle relay team. This proves that why he can gobble 12000 calories and also stay so fit.
Beijing Olympics 2008 will be remembered for two things—Bird’s Nest stadium and Michael Phelps. This US swimmer has caught the attention of the entire world within a week. Every competition that he participated into has been a world record in this edition of summer Olympics. I won’t label him as the best Olympian ever, but he is in the league of the ‘Best Olympians’.
Nine days in the Beijing Olympics and his is the name that everyone round the globe has become familiar with. On Sunday, 17th August 2008, Phelps broke Mark Spitz’ record of winning of 7olympic gold in a single edition of the Summer Olympics. His 8th medal took the US gold medal tally to 17, still to catch up with China at 29.
Lots of buzz is around regarding how he is biologically perfectly built (the shape of his torso, his lungs hence can store maximum amount of oxygen, his ankle etc) which helps him in his game. But one thing I can see clearly, even though he may be biologically built to be good swimmer, he practiced real hard to make the most of those natural gifts.
The amount of practice he has put in, to be what he is today was revealed on Wednesday’s event when his glasses were filled with water; making him blind during the swim still he was able to complete the event first with a world record. Later it was revealed that Phelps exactly knew how many stroke it takes to reach the wall, so he did not panic. And he won two medals that day, within one hour--- first a 200-meter butterfly and one as part of the United States' winning 800-meter freestyle relay team. This proves that why he can gobble 12000 calories and also stay so fit.
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