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American swimmer Michael Phelps had a pretty decent summer back in 2008. The 23-year-old won eight – yes, EIGHT! – Gold Medals at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Five were Golds of the individual variety and three were as part of an American relay team. All of them set a record. Seven established World Records and one (the photo you see here) an Olympic Record.
This photo, by Sports Illustrated’s Heinz Kluetmeier, was from the finish in the 100-meter Butterfly. Phelps, at left, is out-touching Serbia’s Milorad Cavic for the seventh of those eight Golds to equal Mark Spitz‘s single-games’ record from 1972.
“Epic. It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he’s maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He’s the greatest racer who ever walked the planet.”
Mark Spitz after Michael Phelps’ seventh Gold Medal
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