So I watch here at home. I stay calm on the outside but pretty much want to blow up on the inside. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. For Fred Phelps, this Olympics is the sweetest. Best moments of the NYC Marathon. Why the 2, miles she'll run are only a footnote in this Guinness World Record bid. Report gives China 'gold medal for repression'. Wheelchair tennis champion Taylor, 41, will retire.
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Luckily, this feeling of something missing was filled by Bob Bowman. The high-schooler did not bring any medals home until the Athens Olympics in , when he won a whopping eight medals, six of which were gold. He tied the record for most medals won in one Olympic games, and was thrust into the public spotlight. Everything was going well until what happened soon thereafter. Just a couple of months after his amazing victory in Athens in summer , Michael made a shameful mistake and got into legal trouble because of it.
The Trooper found that the car smelled of alcohol and that Phelps, 19, was glassy-eyed. In Court, Phelps pleaded guilty and was fined and sentenced to probation, and various community service obligations. Physically, Phelps broke record after record, winning eight medals at the games — all of them gold. Notably, he won broke the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic game. However, mentally, instead of being happy, Phelps focused on the dark side of it all.
A mere six months after his historic, triumphant victories in Beijing, Phelps made headlines after being caught on camera allegedly using illegal substances. The photo shows Michael with his mouth to a water pipe. USA Swimming suspended him for three months.
Sponsors started to question if they wanted to be associated with him. Some decided to stick by his side: Visa, Omega, and Speedo figured this incident did not tarnish his excellence. Subway decided to keep him as a spokesperson but delayed his commercials until later in the year. Michael got back to focusing on swimming in preparation for the Olympics in London. With his wins in London, he became the athlete with the most Olympic medals of all time, with a whopping However, Michael was sick of it all.
Nothing, nothing, I wanted nothing to do with sport. I was done. After he announced his retirement, Michael was finally free to do what he wanted, which became problematic very quickly. Instead of sticking to a regimented practice schedule and eating on a very strict diet, he ate whatever, whenever, and quickly gained 30 pounds. He took a trip to the tropical Maldives, and went to Las Vegas to gamble and party.
Phelps was partying and gambling at the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore. Michael had been drinking and despite the legal trouble he had in the past, decided to drive home. His car sped across a double yellow line, and police pulled him over, finding his BAC was 0. After the London Olympics in , Phelps announced he was retiring from swimming. However, he gave some indication of a possible return in July and would not rule out a possible Olympic bid for the summer games.
In April , Phelps put the retirement rumors to rest and announced plans to compete at the Mesa Grand Prix in Arizona. Meanwhile, the sports world continued to speculate whether Phelps would compete in the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. His longtime coach Bowman told the Washington Post :. While Phelps did compete at the Mesa Grand Prix, he made a more impressive showing at the Pan Pacific Championships held that summer in Australia, winning three golds and two silvers.
On June 29, , Phelps celebrated a huge comeback when he became the first American male swimmer to earn a spot on five Olympic teams. His then-girlfriend Nicole Johnson, their baby, Boomer, and Phelps' mother Debbie watched the Olympic legend break history from the stands in Rio.
On August 7, , Phelps clinched his 19th Olympic gold medal in Rio swimming the second leg of the men's freestyle relay. He went on to win gold in both the meter butterfly and in the 4xmeter freestyle relay along with Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas and Ryan Lochte.
Phelps went on to compete in the meter individual medley, an event dubbed "the Duel in the Pool" because he faced off against friend, teammate and rival Ryan Lochte, the world record holder in the race. Phelps dominated the race, winning gold in over a body-length at Lochte failed to medal. Phelps' victory made him the first swimmer to win four consecutive golds in the same event.
Being able to finish how I won is just something very special to me and this is why you are seeing more and more emotion on the medal podium. Phelps then competed in the meter butterfly, tying for the silver medal with Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Chad le Clos of South Africa. Joseph Schooling of Singapore, a year-old swimmer who idolized Phelps when he was boy, won the gold.
In another emotional victory, Phelps took gold again in his final Olympic race, helping the U. Upon finishing, the most decorated Olympian in history received a standing ovation from the crowd. In a huddle with his teammates following the race, Phelps felt the emotion of the moment, according to the New York Times.
Phelps has accumulated a total of 28 medals at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio — 23 gold, three silver and two bronze — setting the record for the most medal wins by any Olympic athlete. At the Olympic Games, he won one silver and five gold medals, becoming the oldest individual gold medalist in Olympic swimming history, as well as the first swimmer to win four consecutive golds in the same event, the meter individual medley.
Phelps has set 39 world records, the most of all time. And 24 years in the sport. I'm happy with how things finished," he said.
I'm happy about it. I'm in a better state of mind this time than I was four years ago. Phelps is just under 6 feet, 4 inches tall. He has a disproportionately large wingspan, reaching a bit less than 6 feet 7 inches from fingertip to fingertip, and a torso with measurements that are more common in a man who measures 6 feet 8 inches tall.
When he broke the world record in the meter butterfly at the World Championships, Phelps swam at an astonishingly speedy or at least by human standards 5. During an interview in the midst of the Beijing Summer Olympics, Phelps told NBC that he ate 12, calories per day to fuel his five-hour, six-days-per-week training leading up to the Games. His diet reportedly consisted of hefty choices like two pounds of pasta and entire pizzas.
The stories were just ridiculous. I was probably eating anywhere between like 8 to 10 [thousand] probably at my peak where I was really growing.
Just weeks following his triumph in the Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Salisbury, Maryland, after cruising through a stop sign. Michael called it an "isolated incident," but admitted to letting himself and his family down.
In the fall of , Phelps was arrested again in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland in September for driving under the influence, speeding and crossing double lines.
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