Phelps Earns Eighth Gold
Michael Phelps celebrates his eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games, which breaks Mark Spitz's mark of seven, set in 1972 at Munich. (By Jonathan Newton -- The Washington Post)
By Barry Svrluga
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 17, 2008; Page A01
And a wrap up of why the swimmers deserve so much attention.
Swimmers do not recieve the attention they deserve in this country. The work-out regimen has included a minimum of 3 to 5 hours a day for at least the last 30 years of the sport's history. It's tedious and expensive, and the public only gets interested when somebody like Phelps, with 14 Olympic golds, and who is is bulit for swimming ,comes along. The press over does it with other sports in my opinion. Hopefully things will change now.
I don't know why the women don't swim the 1500m in the Olympics. They swim it. Hell, I swam it 30 freaking years ago. So much has changed, but there was controversy then and there's some now.
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