Michael Phelps Michael Phelps is a through and through true Olympian. He has amazing capabilities and has proven it many times. I would definitely call him a great athlete. Michael Phelps stole the limelight through the best performances in Olympic history. In his early life Michael Phelps had already started his rise to the top. When Michael was born he had two sisters already in the sport of swimming which he entered very soon. “As a seven-year-old‚ he refused to put his face in the water. Not
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“I deliberately set very high goals for myself…why not? No limits” (Phelps 14). Michael Phelps is a name that will always be associated with the word swimming. He made the sport well-known by his eight medal wins at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games‚ and is the most decorated Olympian in the world. He had been swimming since he was seven years old‚ and competed at only fifteen years old in his first Olympic Games. Michael Phelps has affected the world for good by bringing honor to the United States
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The Machine That Is Michael Phelps In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers he expresses that‚ “It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine” (Gladwell 19). He believes that there are other factors besides hard work and ambition that contribute to a person’s success. There are the rare cases‚ like Oprah Winfrey‚ who rose from nothing and worked hard her whole
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Michael Fred Phelps was born on June 30‚ 1985 in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ to Fred and Debbie Phelps. The youngest of three children‚ Michael Phelps and his sisters grew up in the neighborhood of Rodgers Forge. His father‚ Fred‚ an all-around athlete‚ was a state trooper; mother Debbie was a middle-school principal. When Phelps’s parents divorced in 1994‚ he and his siblings went to live with their mother‚ with whom Michael grew very close. Phelps began swimming when his two older sisters‚ Whitney (born
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It is safe to say that almost everybody who follows the news nowadays has heard of the name Michael Phelps. Upon coming to worldwide attention at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens‚ Phelps has taken the sport of swimming to new limits‚ setting records that seemed impossible just years before. He shocked the world with his record-breaking win of eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing‚ and also holds the record for most Olympic gold medals ever won. However‚ getting to that point was
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Michael Phelps is known as a tragic hero because of his noble life as a common man. Michael Phelps was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ on June 30‚ 1985. He lived in a neighborhood called Rodgers Forge. In this ordinary place‚ Phelps’ started swimming when he was diagnosed with ADHD and didn’t know where to use all of his stamina: “...Phelps was directed towards swimming in 1992 at the age of just seven in order to provide him with an outlet for his unbounded energy” (5). Luckily‚ due to this disorder
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Michael Phelps was born in 6.30‚1985 in Baltimore of the US. Unfortunatly‚he got a very terrible and unhappy time in his childhood.His parents always quarreled and quarreled.Little Michael felt so sad‚so he put himself into the swimming pool.It seemed to be the only way for him to keep happy. When he was 15 ‚Michael competed at the Sydeny Olympics.But the reault seemed a little disappointed.He didn’t win a medal.But he never gave up.After that‚he swam every day‚no Christmas‚no New Year‚even
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Vessels Miss Hoy English 11 14 November 2012 Michael Phelps loses his Image Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated Olympic athletes. He is very well appreciated by people all around the world for his swimming abilities. Everybody always looked up to the superstar Michael Phelps for being one of the best Olympians. When Michael was caught online in the picture smoking‚ his image went downhill even though he was the same superstar swimmer. Phelps didn’t let this scandal bring him down even
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Why Michael Phelps is the Greatest Olympian of All Time Michael Phelps holds an astonishing 6 World Records to date. He is the one to beat at every event he participates in. Everything began in his childhood and he wants other children to have the same success that he had. Michael Phelps is full of success stories but he has his flaws. Many of his records have held for 10 years still yet to be beat. While Phelps is amazing‚ he is still human and has had his handful of rough times and lows. He
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Rachael Richardson March 2‚ 2009 Michael Phelps fans are right to be disappointed in him for smoking marijuana at a party. I am one of his fans‚ but I am aggravated by his decisions and I think some other people are too. “ Many people are disappointed in Michael’s decisions‚ Phelps is a role model‚ he is well aware of the responsibilities and accountability that come with setting a positive example for others‚ particularly young people‚” the USOC said in a statement. “ In this instance
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