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...Beijing Olympics may boast one of the coolest natatoriums in Olympic history - the luminescent bubble-wrapped confection called the 'Water Cube' - but Chinese swimmers weren't expected to make much of a splash in its pool lanes. But Liu Zige, a 1.81m (5'11") butterfly specialist, had other ideas...
Phelps complied. At the Beijing Water Cube around 10:30AM, Michael Phelps swam two races, and won more gold medals. He broke two more world records, and got himself a new title: the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time...
...unfurl a banner on an overpass. The police stopped them, and as security guards were distracted by this, five people barricaded themselves behind bicycles at a nearby park entrance. But the time and place were symbolic - in Beijing, just a short distance from the Olympic stadium and the Water Cube, where just two hours earlier Michael Phelps became the world's most decorated Olympian...
...Well, the secret might be out. Phelps collected his third win in the Water Cube in the 200m freestyle on Aug. 12 - and his third world record. "Being in lane six, I was out of the middle of the pool. I knew that if I jumped first, the guys in the middle of the pool wouldn't be able to see me, and by the time they did, hopefully I had enough ground where I could hold them off," he said of his record-breaking...
...world-wide media covering Phelps' chase to break Mark Spitz's 1972 Munich record of seven gold medals in a single Games, that means another day at the Water Cube - in Athens, the waiting was over by the second day, when the U.S. men came in third in the 4x100m relay behind South Africa and the Netherlands...