Who is Michael Phelps?

Michael Phelps is one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time. He has won 18 gold medals in his career. That’s more than any other Olympian. Michael Phelps also won more gold medals in one Olympics, eight in 2008, than any other Olympian in history. Michael Phelps started swimming at the age of five. As a kid, Michael was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. At the age seven, he started swimming partly because he could release all that extra energy in the pool. At first, Michael was scared to even put his face in the water but before long he was swimming competitively. When he was 11, Michael Phelps met his long-time swimming coach, Bob Bowman, who knew right away that Phelps had what it took to be an exceptional athlete. Phelps has created a whopping 39 world records, 29 in individuals events and 11 in the group, to become the only swimmer ever to do so. Additionally, he established a world mark by being the only Olympian with the most number of Olympic gold medals, the only Olympian with 13 gold medals in individual events and the only Olympian to win 8 gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Throughout the career, what distinguished him from his contemporaries and colleagues was not his back to back victories or undefeated feats, but his will to better his own records and transform the way swimming was looked upon as a sport by the world at large.

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