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Michael Phelps

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“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.”

SwimSwam Pulse: 67% Wanted Phelps, Conger on 4×200 Free Relay

Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers whom they believe Team USA should have selected to swim the 4×200 free relay:

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Michael Phelps To Appear On Tonight’s ‘America’s Got Talent’

Set your DVRs for tonight at 9pm Eastern, as Michael Phelps makes an appearance on ‘America’s Got Talent.’

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7 Reasons to Love SwimSwam Magazine and the College Preview

If you subscribe to SwimSwam Magazine, you can instantly view the 2016 Olympic Preview and all back issues as digital magazines. The College Preview ships August 29th.

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Watch Michael Phelps Come To Life Using 1500 Rubik’s Cubes

Watch the video and see Michael Phelps’ face (this time smiling) come to life as Rubik’s cube artists, Cube Creators, work their magic.

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Katie Ledecky Belongs With Bob Beamon and Secretariat

Charles Hartley writes about why Katie Ledecky belongs in the same category as Bob Beamon and Secretariat.

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Phelps, Ledecky Among Finalists For Team USA Best of the Games Awards

Swimming fans can cast their votes for Phelps and Ledecky, as well as 8 Team USA favorites from other sports, until September 6th.

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Michael Phelps Most Mentioned Athlete on Twitter at the Olympics

Many fans took to Twitter this Olympics, tweeting about the excitement, emotional ups and downs, upsets, and scandals that came along with it all. Below is a summary of the 2016 Olympics through Twitter data.

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Baltimore Ice Cream Shops Creates Michael Phelps Ice Cream

American swimmer Michael Phelps may have moved his budding family to Arizona a year ago, but he is still a favored…

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How Do Regular People Try On Competitive Swimsuits?

Not very well. This BuzzFeed video is a must-see.

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Where Penny Oleksiak’s Performance Ranks Amongst Best Teens In Olympic History

Penny Oleksiak was the most dominant teenager at the 2016 Olympic Games by far, taking home one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals for Canada in the pool.

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Developing swimmers for a Life Time.

Life Time is a SwimSwam partner. “Golden Growth.” That’s what USA Swimming has said of the recent surge across the…

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Scoring the 2016 Olympic Games: Americans Dominated On Both Sides

Scoring the 2016 Olympic Games as if it were an NCAA Championship meet, the Americans blew away the competition amassing nearly 1000 total points.

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How to Have Your Own Joseph Schooling Moment

What Schooling’s victory means for the future of swimming

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Female British Breaststrokers’ World Class Progress

Rachael Solway felt that the coverage of the Rio Olympics swimming, particularly on Swim Swam, inspired her to write articles on the performances of many of her ex-teammates and other British athletes.

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As Rio Wraps, Olympic Swimmers Put Back Into Storage Until 2020

With the competitive swimming portion of the 2016 Rio Olympics wrapping up this week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has begun returning swimmers to their storage unit, where they’ll remain until fans care about swimming again in the year 2020.

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