Our colleague Carl Bialik over at The Numbers Guy takes a look at the two legendary swimmers: Michael Phelps with one of his octet of golds (Photo by AP) Now that Michael Phelps has his record eight gold medals at a single Olympiad, here’s a qui... ...full story at China Journal
from China Journal on Mon, Aug 18 2008
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YouTube video Michael Phelps broke the world record for total number of Gold Medals achieved by one man at an Olympic Games. Here are Michael Phelps' eight Gold Medal winn... |
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