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On Aug. 10, a few hours after Michael Phelps won his first gold medal and set his first world record in Beijing, he called his mom. "It seemed quite unusual," Debbie Phelps, who was traveling back to her hotel with daughters Hillary and Whitney after watching Michael's race, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Phelps Made Swimming History | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

For Debbie, the feat is especially momentous. When Michael was in grade school, a teacher told her that her son would never be successful because he couldn't focus in the classroom. It turned out that he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and while it made concentrating in class difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Phelps Made Swimming History | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

Crowd support was also crucial for the Chinese women's pair, who started their quarter-final match at 1:00AM on Aug. 16. The late match, punctuated by swirls of flying nocturnal insects, pitted Yan and Zheng against Russia's Dinara Safina and Kuznetsova in a nearly three-hour battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hometown Heroes Dominate Courts | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

The women's tennis schedule continues in an unrelenting fashion. Safina plays Li again in a women's singles semi-finals on Aug. 16 at 4:00PM, just 12 hours after she and her Russian partner lost to the Chinese pair. Zheng and Yan meet Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hometown Heroes Dominate Courts | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

His pre-game routine was also kind of nuts. "I woke up at 11, then I had lunch," Bolt says. "Some nuggets," he says. Yes, the greasy McDonald's kind. "And then I pretty much went back to my room, and slept again, for like two hours. Then I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolting to a World Record | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

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