Shortly after crushing the opposition in the 200m butterfly and 4x200m freestyle relay, American swimming superstar Michael Phelps said he did not regard himself as unbeatable.Phelps, who had earlier won his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Beijing Games to take his overall tally to 11 - two more than any other athlete in Olympic history - is going for an unprecedented eight gold medals in the Beijing Water Cube."There are still three races to go and I am not unbeatable. No swimmer is unbeatable," he said. The US head coach Eddie Reese might well disagree with his star attraction, who he said was riding a wave of success."He is just sailing along this week. He's unstoppable." The 23-year-old said the last message he received by text before he entered the water was from a friend in America."He said: 'Dude it is ridiculous how many times each day I have to see your ugly face. Keep up the good work. It is time to be the best-ever'."Phelps took him by his word and made history with a men's 200m butterfly world record time of 1 minute 52.03 seconds, which was six hundredths faster than his record established at the world championships in Melbourne last year. Yet he still said he was disappointed with his time.
Crocker is last hurdle
American Ian Crocker has a habit of messing things up for Michael Phelps and will have the whole of the Olympics world riding against him doing it again to the greatest Olympian at the Beijing Olympics.The 25-year-old two-time Olympic gold medallist is the world record holder in the 100-metres butterfly and it is one of the remaining three gold medals Phelps needs to create Olympic history.Phelps heads into the opening heats of the event on Thursday needing to repeat his 2007 world championship and 2004 Olympics win over event specialist Crocker to continue his world-record breaking march to glory.Phelps has dominated in the Beijing Games capturing his fourth and fifth golds in the 200m butterfly and 4x200m freestyle relay finals on Wednesday.If he can win all eight of his Beijing events, he will surpass the record of seven gold at one Games set by US swimmer Mark Spitz.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Michael Phelps..........I'm not unbeatable
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Weighed in gold, Michael Phelps is worth about $3 million. In reality the face of the Beijing Olympics is probably worth 10 times that amount each year.
Marketing experts said the 23-year-old American, who is now the most successful Olympian with 11 gold medals, will become the richest professional swimmer ever, far surpassing the money earned by the former most decorated US swimmer, Mark Spitz.
"He's the greatest Olympian in the world and he'll be able to earn money everywhere as he's an international brand," Australia-based celebrity agent Max Markson said.
"He's a billion dollar man. He won't have to get a job ever. He can live off this for 50 years."
a swimmer has got many options/events to improve the medals tally.
to compare swimming medals with that of other sports is like comparing runs and wkts in cricket.
a batsman can score, 100 or even 200 runs (in odis, say). but a bowler cannt take more than 10 wkts in an inning.
so, swimming sports is such that there r many events which can fetch u a medal unlike other sports. eg a tennis player can get only 2/3 medals maximum in an olympic, as the events r less for that sports.
so dont compare a swimmers' medal tally with that of other athletes.