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Michael Phelps can, of course. And just to prove that he wasn't going to let anyone see him sweat, the 23-year-old set a new world record too, while President Bush, his father, the First Lady and daughter Barbara cheered him on. In the Games' first swimming event...
As he headed into the last 100m, Phelps was already 1.40 seconds under his world record and the crowd roared into action - enough to bring Bush out of his seat, waving the American flag. Indeed, the only glitch came later on the medal stand, during the playing of the Star...
Part of the inspiration for his blistering swim in the final, which he led from start to finish, was the promise he says he's extracted from his coach Bob Bowman, that he would not have to swim the 400m individual medley, a grueling two laps each of all four...
When Dara Torres, now 41, first set the world record for the 50-m freestyle in 1983, LeBron James hadn't even been born. The arc of athletic celebrity has changed. You can be a star at 15 and again at 41. Torres' remarkable swimming comeback and James' single-minded...
And how. In eventing, each rider competes on the same horse through the four-day competition. Five selectors decide the Olympic team over an 18-month vetting period. It's a somewhat subjective process: eventing can't have win-and-in pre-Olympic trials because if the horses exerts too...