[197], In his first event at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, Phelps won bronze in the 4100-meter freestyle relay with Garrett Weber-Gale, Jason Lezak, and Nathan Adrian. [90][91] Phelps's gesture gave Crocker a chance to make amends (for a mistake at the start of a previous race) as well, getting his final shot at a gold medal. Phelps was raised in a family of swimmers and joined the prestigious North Baltimore Aquatic Club at age seven. Bowman said, "It took me five years to get Michael from 1:46 to 1:42 and this guy has done it in 11 months. Michael Phelps' wife Nicole opens up about his depression struggles. However at a final training camp in Atlanta a week before heading to Rio, Phelps put out "the fourth-fastest flat-start time of the year" in a 100 free time trial, automatically securing one of the seven spots on the Men's 4 100 metre freestyle relay for the Olympics. In his first event, the 200-meter butterfly, Phelps made it four gold medals and world records in four events by swimming the final in 1:52.03, defeating silver medalist Lszl Cseh by almost seven-tenths of a second despite his goggles' having filled up with water and being unable to "see anything for the last 100 meters. On Saturday night, the 31-year-old won his record twenty-eight Olympic medal with 23 of them gold. Phelps entered the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with the goal of breaking Spitzs record of seven gold medals at one Olympics. [39] When Bowman was hired as the men's and women's swimming coach at Arizona State University in 2015, Phelps moved to Arizona to continue training under Bowman. Phelps retired following the 2012 Olympics, but he made a comeback in April 2014. [257][258][259] Phelps retired from competitive swimming again following the Rio Olympics. This time he finished second to Ryan Lochte in the event with a time of 1:44.79, compared to Lochte's time of 1:44.44. Phelps has accumulated a total of 28 medals at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio 23 gold, three silver and two bronze setting the record for the most medal wins by any Olympic athlete. Phelps swam the fastest leg of the US relay team and the second-fastest of anyone in the race. In the spring of 2001, Phelps set the world record in the 200-meter butterfly, becoming the youngest male swimmer in history (at 15 years and 9 months) to ever set a world swimming record. 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Michael Phelps is known for being the most decorated Olympian of all time, but the 33-year-old retired swimmer wants to be recognized for something else, too: his willingness to talk about his. [216] After two very close victories in the 100 m butterfly at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics (by 0.04 and 0.01 sec, respectively), in this race Phelps beat Le Clos and Yevgeny Korotyshkin, who tied for silver, by 0.23 sec. They did not swim the 100 meters side by side but rather individually in the same open water, with CGI images of the sharks displayed alongside Phelps as he raced. He was born on June 30, 1985, in Baltimore, and was named after his father as Michael Fred Phelps the Second. 31-year-old Michael Phelps was arrested for DUI after leaving a casino in 2014. [18], In February 2009, a photograph of Phelps using a bong went viral; this resulted in the loss of the Kellogg's as a sponsor, as well as a three-month suspension by USA Swimming. [172] For his second race, the 200-meter freestyle, Phelps lost his first race in four years to Germany's Paul Biedermann. He holds the record for most Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). When Phelps and his teammates captured the gold, Thorpe gave a congratulatory kiss to Phelps's mother, then gave a handshake and a hug to congratulate Phelps. Together with Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, and Nathan Adrian, swimming as the butterfly leg of the medley, they broke the Olympic record,[256] and won the United States' 1001st all time Olympic gold medal, in accordance with the USOC. However, he gave some indication of a possible return in July 2013 and would not rule out a possible Olympic bid for the 2016 summer games. [101] Later that day, in the 4100-meter freestyle relay, Phelps won his first gold in the Championships. [234] He displayed a relaxed, sociable demeanor in the athletes' village and in press conferences; this pleasant behavior was in stark contrast to his isolation in previous Olympics. [47] In the 400-meter individual medley, Phelps bettered the world record held by Tom Dolan with a time of 4:11.09, just ahead of Erik Vendt, who finished second with a time of 4:11.27, also below the old world record. He came close to the podium only in the 200m butterfly, where he finished fifth. Phelps swam the second leg with what his coach Bob Bowman described as "maybe the best turn that's ever been done",[236] overtaking France's Fabien Gilot to give his American teammates a lead which they would not relinquish. Also his hair eye color, bio, family wiki, nationality and vital statistics info is listed. This was typical of someone who is over half a foot shorter, giving him less body to pull through the water. "[154] On August 16, Phelps won his seventh gold medal of the Games in the men's 100-meter butterfly, setting an Olympic record for the event with a time of 50.58 seconds and edging out his nearest competitor avi, by one hundredth (0.01) of a second.[155]. [291], In 2010, the Michael Phelps Foundation, the Michael Phelps Swim School and KidsHealth.org developed and nationally piloted the "im" program for Boys & Girls Club members. [283] He pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and was sentenced to serve 18 months of probation, fined $250, ordered to speak to high school students about drinking and driving, and to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) meeting. "[175] Phelps rebounded from this loss and for his third race, the 200-meter butterfly, Phelps won the gold and broke his own world record of 1:52.03 with a time of 1:51.51. [267], Bob Bowman described Phelps as "a solitary man"[268] with a "rigid focus"[18] at the pool prior to a race, but afterward "a man incredibly invested in the success of the people he cares about". [214] Rebecca Soni and Phelps (twice) are the only swimmers to successfully defend an individual title from the 2008 Games. Never in my life have I been so happy to have been proved wrong. Everything I've done, I've been able to learn from - mistakes I've made in the pool, mistakes I've made out of the pool. [74] However, Phelps dropped the 200-meter backstroke to focus on the 200-meter freestyle because he wanted to race Ian Thorpe. [279][280], In January 2018, Phelps revealed that he has struggled both with ADHD and depression, having contemplated suicide after the 2012 Olympics. After he saw swimmers Tom Malchow and Tom Dolan compete at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Phelps began to dream of becoming a champion. Beijing 2008 would see the greatest ever medal haul by a single athlete in an Olympic Games. Phelps's butterfly leg of 50.57 was by far the fastest butterfly leg in the field. [103] Two days later, on July 28, Phelps finished seventh in the 100-meter freestyle final. [52] Phelps said he broke the 200-meter individual medley world record after Don Talbot said Phelps was unproven, using his words as motivation. London 2012 was also astonishing he got four golds and two silvers while Rio 1016 saw him stage a historic comeback (he had decided to retire after London), aged 31, to bag five gold medals and one silver. All told, Phelps set world records in all but one (the 100-metre butterfly) of his eight gold medal-winning events. This time Phelps wanted to swim for himselfand enjoy the journey". At the 2012 Olympics in London, Phelps had a disappointing start, failing to medal in his first event, the 400-metre IM. 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