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Your cover photo of swimmer Dara Torres would also make a great cover for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition [Aug. 4]. Best of luck to her in Beijing! C. Lin Jacobson, PASCAGOULA, MISS...
...just a normal person, although he may be from a different planet," says Russian swimmer Alexander Sukhorukov. "A planet from a different galaxy...
...much media attention as Michael Phelps gets, there are certain things the world's best swimmer keeps to himself. He has never, for example, talked about his personal Olympic goals. Winning eight gold medals, he says over and over, is a quest that the media have concocted. Other than saying that he wants to win one gold medal coming out of the Games, nobody knows what kind of meet in Beijing would make him happy. His goals are between and U.S. coach Bob Bowman and himself...
...Could he and Bowman have set an astoundingly high bar of not only winning eight gold medals, but of earning eight new world records in the process? With any other swimmer, the very thought would be ridiculous. But with Phelps...
...Games' first swimming event, Phelps dropped nearly a second and a half off his own world record, set a month ago at the Olympic trials, and launched his quest for a history making- eight gold. Not to be outdone, Dara Torres, famed for being the oldest swimmer at the Games, showed that age doesn't seem to matter when you're in a swimsuit...