Michael Phelps will write about his historic eight gold medal swims.  Olympic superstar Michael Phelps is to write a book telling the story behind his success. The 23-year-old will also be opening about his life.
Due in December, ‘Built to Succeed’ will also focus on his life being raised by a single mother and coping with [...]

Michael Phelps stormed to victory in the men’s 200m freestyle swimming, claiming his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing Olympics.
Phelps, 23, finished nearly two seconds ahead of South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan in a time of one minute 42.96 seconds. The American owned the previous record of 1:43.86 and now has a [...]

Michael Phelps remains on track for a record eight Olympic titles as the American 4×100m freestyle swimming team rallied to notch a thrilling victory.
The US team broke the world record with a time of 3:08.24, beating France into silver, while Australia took bronze.
The 23-year-old Phelps maintained his own excellent form, but the team had to [...]

American swimmer Michael Phelps stormed to victory in the Olympic 400m individual medley, and broke his own world record in the process.
Phelps led from start to finish to come home in a time of four minutes 03.84 seconds to claim his first of a targeted eight gold medals in Beijing. Laszlo Cseh of Hungary took [...]

South Korean teenager Park Tae-Hwan took Olympic gold in the men’s 400m freestyle final in Beijing.
The 18-year-old tracked Australia’s double Olympic champion Grant Hackett for the first 200m before pulling away. He survived a late surge by China’s Zhang Lin to secure his country’s first Olympic swimming title. Larsen Jensen finished third in a new [...]

Michael Phelps’s bid to make Olympic history got off to the perfect start as he set a new Games record in winning his heat in the 400m individual medley.
The 23-year-old American is aiming to win eight gold medals in Beijing and beat Mark Spitz’s record of seven golds set in 1972.
He cruised into Sunday’s final [...]