Michael Phelps the name that most people would know by now did the impossible by winning an unprecedented 8 gold medals at the olympics and 14 overall surpassing Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals at a single olympic game.
It was certainly a moment that will go down in olympic history when Jason Lezak touched home a mere .5 seconds faster than the australian freestyler to give the US men's medley team the olympic gold and more importantly hand Mr. Phelps his 8th gold medal in the Beijing games. Acheiving a feat which retired Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe claimed was "impossible" , well Phelps seemed to have taken que from the adidas motto of "Impossible is nothing" and decided to "Just do it", in most of his races the fight was clearly only for second place as Michael was head and shoulders over the rest of the competition, he did have to depend on Lezak to deliver 2 of his golds in the team event but other than that Phelps was phenomenal. Setting world records in 6 of his 8 races. And after winning the 8 titles Phelps said "I just want to go see my mother" a true mama's boy which makes it all the sweeter
Hat's off to a true swimming great. Perhaps Usain Bolt can do the same on the track??
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