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Michael Phelps hits back at USA Swimming: 'Treated me like piece of meat through my career'
August 09, 2025 4:48 pm
Phelps and Lochte's criticism had also evoked a clapback from current American swimmer Lilly King, who tagged them on social media after a medal-winning night in Singapore and wrote: "You have been real quiet tonight."
'Call it a funeral': Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte roast USA Swimming's performance at World Championships with meme
August 02, 2025 4:52 pm
Outside the pool too, there are issues for USA Swimming, with the American governing body for swimming not having a CEO for a year now.
World’s best swimmer and France's hero Leon Marchand: From quitting swimming for 2 years because the ‘water was too cold’ to winning four gold medals
August 04, 2024 8:37 pm
For someone who was physically ‘underdeveloped’ in secondary school and nicknamed ‘shrimp’, Marchand has come a long way under the tutelage of Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps’s coach, and with the help of a mental coach.
Olympics: Check out full list of athletes who have won the most number of medals
August 04, 2024 8:04 am
Paris Olympics 2024: The Indian Express takes a look at the athletes who have won the most number of medals in the Olympics.
Naomi Osaka returns to the US Open for a discussion about mental health with Michael Phelps
September 07, 2023 10:28 am
Osaka recently gave birth to a daughter and hasn't competed on tour since an event in Tokyo in September 2022, shortly after she lost in the first round of the US Open.
Michael Phelps is not going to the Olympics, but his wake is
June 16, 2021 12:14 pm
On Monday, Michael Andrew, who has gobbled up Phelps’ national age-group records like Pac-Man, won the 100-meter breaststroke to qualify for his first Olympic team.
Because she could
May 27, 2021 7:44 am
Simone Biles takes a jump into the unknown, lands in a league of her own
Caeleb Dressel earning comparisons to Michael Phelps at world championships
July 28, 2019 9:58 am
Dressel took his tally at the meet to six gold medals and has a chance to make it seven on Sunday, which would match his haul from the 2017 world Championships.
Caeleb Dressel smashes Michael Phelps' 100m butterfly world record
July 27, 2019 12:14 pm
American swimmers smashed records and grabbed gold at the world championships on Friday, with sprint king Caeleb Dressel taking down Michael Phelps' 100 metres butterfly world record
Michael Phelps on Kristof Milak breaking his record: 'My hat's off to him'
July 25, 2019 1:30 pm
In a race that Phelps watched online, Milak, 19, won in 1 minute 50.73 seconds, shattering the world record and becoming the first man not named Phelps to own it since 2001, a span of 18 years, 3 months and 24 days.
MICHAEL PHELPS VIDEOS
On This Day: Michael Phelps makes history at Beijing Olympics
June 22, 2020 6:19 pm
On August 17, 2008, US swimmer Michael Phelps became the first athlete to win 8 Olympic gold medals. He broke the 36-year record held by Mark Spitz who had won 7 medals at the 1972 Olympics. He went on to win 23 Olympic gold medals in his career.
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