All Blog Posts Tagged 'Phelps' (2)

Michael Phelps’ run at the Olympics — eight gold medals, seven broken world records — is unprecedented, and according to Phelps he couldn’t have done it without Young Jeezy. Phelps typically listened to the Jeezy/R. Kelly collaboration “Go Getta” before hitting the pool, which Jeezy himself doesn’t find surprising. “All my music is inspirational,” he told Rolling Stone’s Evan Serpick. “You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of… Continue

BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Five facts about American swimmer Michael Phelps who took his career tally to an unprecedented 11 Olympic gold medals on Wednesday.



* Phelps comes from a broken home in Baltimore. His policeman father Fred and school teacher mother Debbie separated when he was only seven. Elder sister Whitney, also a swimmer, has written that she used the swimming pool as a refuge from the yelling.



* When he was 10, Phelps attended the 1996 Olympic Trials to… Continue