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After touching the wall, he ripped off the goggles, and angrily looked up at the board. Once he saw he won, he didn't exactly lighten up; only Phelps could break a world record with a time of 1:52.03, and still look ticked. It wasn't fast enough. On the medal stand, between his butterfly race and relay, Phelps still refused to smile. You can't really blame him - he had another race in less than 15 minutes. Hurry up with the anthems already...
...picked up the emotional slack. "I have to keep telling myself, 'He hasn't just won more gold medals than any American,'" said Phelps' sister Hilary Phelps, 30, in the first row of the stands after the medal ceremonies. Her eyes were bulging, and she was talking fast. "He has more than anyone in the world!" But it was his mother, Debbie Phelps, who finally broke up. "I just think back to when he was 10 years old," she said. "I try to put it into words." Then came the waterworks. She stopped for a few seconds, and composed herself...
...from mold growing in ice machines (in a restaurant in Atlanta) to live cockroaches skittering across kitchen cutting boards (in Pittsburgh, Pa.). The reports cited violations in restaurants of every caliber: though the data does not detail which specific restaurants committed which offenses, the aggregated inspections represent popular national fast-food chains as well as posh $90-a-head eateries...
...think that's the differentiating factor. You have to have testosterone in your body for 20 years to develop the strength that the Kenyan male runners have. I suppose if you could genetically engineer women - if you could put men's muscles into them - they could be as fast. Who knows? Otherwise, even using steroids, women are not as fast...
...seeing exactly where your opponent is to get your stroke flying. "When you put a world record holder in the end of a relay, and go in behind them, the chance of you beating them is slim to none," said U.S. men's coach Eddie Reese. "That was amazingly fast...