Even though I think Michael Phelps is a little too perfect he is still one of the best swimmers ever and one of the most decorated. I started to read a book about Michael that he wrote himself with Brian Cazeneuve. In it Bob Costas wrote a forward in which he describes a time when he walked into a back room at some Olympic event in New york and Michael was finishing off a piece of pizza, nothing too strange until he asks Michael if he just ate that whole pizza by himself to which Michael smiles and says yes! I could not imagine eating a whole pizza by myself, maybe a personal pan pizza. Then in the 1st chapter Michael describes the athens olympics. He mainly talked about one training session where coach Bob turned into Herb Brooks making Mike swim a kicking drill until he was happy with the way Mike swam. Phelps also descibes how the day of the first race went, how he fussed at coach Bob while getting on to the bus and how he went to the fence by the cool down pool to show his mom and sisters his medal and to hug and kiss them. Michael's mom raised him by herself from the time Mike was 7. Phelps is a year older than me and we were both pretty much raised by our moms. He describes a moment when he got really sick on Christmas when was little, it ended up being a viral infection that almost ended his life. There were many other indicadents which according to him is ok because he is "incident prone". If you can believe this, he hated swimming, spefically getting his face wet, when he was little. Yes I'm making my get away from the "We love Michael" pack but I still sometimes like whatch him swim. With 14 olympic medals and countless others from world championships and other competetions he is by far one of the best swimmers ever. I wish him like in all he does
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