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If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us. | | The Lounge Off-Topic Talk |  17th August 2008, 10:20 |  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California, USA Posts: 312 Groans: 5 Groaned at 3 Times in 1 Post Thanks: 49 Thanked 270 Times in 85 Posts | | | Michael Phelps Goes 8/8!
Quote: BEIJING -- Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.
Jason Lezak held on to the lead Phelps gave him, anchoring the United States to a world record in the 400-meter medley relay against an Australian team that did its best to spoil history.
But Phelps, with a big hand from three teammates, would not be denied. He eclipsed Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games, an iconic performance that was surpassed by a swimmer fitting of this generation: a 23-year-old from Baltimore who loves hip-hop music, texting with his buddies and wearing his cap backward.
"I don't even know what to feel right now," Phelps said. "There's so much emotion going through my head and so much excitement. I kind of just want to see my mom."
Debbie Phelps was sitting in the stands at the Water Cube, tears streaming down her cheeks, her two daughters by her side. After getting his gold, Phelps quickly found his family, climbing through a horde of photographers to give all three of them a kiss.
Mom put her arm around his neck and gave him a little extra hug.
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Her son sure earned it.
"The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time -- Michael Phelps of the USA," the announcer said as Phelps posed on the deck with his teammates.
Even though the Americans have never lost the medley relay at the Olympics, the latest win was hardly a breeze. When Phelps dived into the water for the butterfly -- the third of four legs -- the Americans were third behind Japan and Australia.
But Phelps, swimming the same distance and stroke that he used to win his seventh gold a day earlier, powered to the front on his return lap, passing off to Lezak with the Americans in front.
Australia's Eamon Sullivan tried to chase down Lezak and appeared to be gaining as they came to the wall. But Lezak touched in 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds -- Phelps' seventh world record in his personal Great Haul of China.
The Aussies took silver in 3:30.04, also under the old world record, while Japan held on for the bronze.
"Nothing is impossible," Phelps said. "With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination, and that's something I learned and something that helped me."
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Golden record-breaker Michael Phelps, far right, and 400 medley relay teammates Brendan Hansen and Aaron Piersol celebrate winning the gold in Sunday's final. The U.S. men set a world-best time of 3:29.34.
Phelps patted breaststroker Brendan Hansen on the head and threw his arms in the air after Lezak finished, though the Americans still had to wait a couple of tantalizing minutes for the official results to be posted. The fourth member of the team was Aaron Peirsol, who swam the leadoff leg.
Finally, it flashed on the board.
World record.
Gold medal No. 8.
On deck, a beaming Phelps slapped hands with his teammates and thrust his arms toward the Water Cube roof. The winning swimmers locked arms as if they were in a football huddle about to break for a play.
Phelps, who won five individual races and three relays in Beijing, couldn't stop smiling. He also gave a shout-out to those who helped him take down Spitz.
"Without the help of my teammates this isn't possible," he said. "I was able to be a part of three relays and we were able to put up a solid team effort and we came together as one unit.
"For the three Olympics I've been a part of, this is by far the closest men's team that we've ever had. I didn't know everybody coming into this Olympics, but I feel going out I know every single person very well. The team that we had is the difference."
Phelps won some races by ridiculously large margins, others with the closest of finishes -- most memorably, his seventh gold by one-hundredth of a second over Serbia's Milorad Cavic in the 100 fly.
He set seven world records and one Olympic record, doing a personal best time in every event.
"It's been nothing but an upwards roller-coaster and it's been nothing but fun," Phelps said.
Meanwhile, Grant Hackett fell short in his bid to become the first man to win the same event at three straight Olympics.
Australia's distance king was upset in the 1,500 freestyle by Ous Mellouli, who won Tunisia's first Olympic swimming gold in 14 minutes, 40.84 seconds.
"It's like 90 yards of a touchdown. It was so close, but I didn't have much of a response," Hackett said. "It's disappointing I didn't win. I have no regrets, it certainly was a close race."
Mellouli held off Hackett in the closing meters of the grueling race, swimming's version of the mile. Hackett earned the silver in 14:41.53, well off his 7-year-old world record of 14:34.56.
"He's never hung on like that in the past," Hackett said of the winner. "He was the better competitor."
Mellouli, who trains in Southern California, was coming off a suspension after testing positive for amphetamines.
Ryan Cochrane of Canada took the bronze in 14:42.69.
After receiving his eighth gold, Phelps received another award from FINA, the sport's governing body, as the best swimmer of the meet.
Make it the best ever.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press | Source: ESPN - Mission accomplished: Phelps earns eighth gold in medley relay - Olympics Posted On: August 18, 2008 This man is a beast. 8 gold medals in 1 Olympics. 7 of his 8 gold medals were world records. A total of 16 medals which 14 are gold. Congrats Phelps, I wanna know who is making the speed hack for him. | 17th August 2008, 17:21 | | | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 270 Groans: 1 Groaned at 4 Times in 4 Posts Thanks: 138 Thanked 92 Times in 48 Posts | | | Agree, that's an enormous feat, but when Usain Bolt bolted on 100 meters in 9.69 and in the way he did it, to me that will probably be the highlight of these olympics... __________________ Master of PB Disaster - Your Attorney - Rainer Stoff! | | The following user says Thank You to |Punk| for this useful post: | | 17th August 2008, 19:36 |  | Psychedelic! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: TLV Posts: 67 Groans: 1 Groaned at 4 Times in 1 Post Thanks: 7 Thanked 42 Times in 13 Posts | | | great athlete and a great swimmer! | 18th August 2008, 03:02 |  | at your service since 2003 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,253 Groans: 10 Groaned at 42 Times in 19 Posts Thanks: 211 Thanked 5,847 Times in 568 Posts | | | Pengu, IMHO he is cheating. There is no way a human beeing can do this. Same applies to the Chinese... its all doped. | 18th August 2008, 05:35 |  | | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 98 Groans: 1 Groaned at 1 Time in 1 Post Thanks: 58 Thanked 54 Times in 21 Posts | | | he has those damn size 14 feet that he bends in positions that others can't due to him being dbl jointed and it gives him propulsion just like a fish lol, has anyone seen those shots from underwater of the way his feet and lower legs bend? | 18th August 2008, 07:05 |  | | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 189 Groans: 16 Groaned at 15 Times in 10 Posts Thanks: 167 Thanked 58 Times in 25 Posts | | | yeah man, contorts just like a fuckin Swordfish (fastest fish in the ocean...for those who didn't know..) __________________ :evil:If at first you don't succeed, call in an Airstrike, hehehe:evil: - Call Of Duty 4 quote
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http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/tdestroyer/WickedLasersFan.png | 18th August 2008, 15:22 |  | Courage is Solid | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NL Age: 21 Posts: 535 Groans: 1 Groaned at 16 Times in 12 Posts Thanks: 43 Thanked 140 Times in 99 Posts | | Quote: Originally Posted by ridl3r  What I meant is that, As for the cost of living compared to the UK, wages are probably a bit lower. Taxes are higher, but you do get tax rebates. If you have a mortgage, the rates are much lower, and again you can claim tax rebates.
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Prices in the stores are the same or cheaper, petrol more expensive (yes !!!)
They do speak good english but for living there you'll probably have to learn a little dutch. | I think you posted in the wrong thread here..(?) | 18th August 2008, 17:48 |  | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 390 Groans: 108 Groaned at 16 Times in 10 Posts Thanks: 208 Thanked 115 Times in 69 Posts | | Quote: Originally Posted by Pansemuckl Pengu, IMHO he is cheating. There is no way a human beeing can do this. Same applies to the Chinese... its all doped. | Cheaters always win (?) __________________ External image, IP might be exposed!
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/purix/SHANKJAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.png | 18th August 2008, 18:50 |  | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Yorkshire, Leeds Age: 17 Posts: 581 Groans: 12 Groaned at 5 Times in 3 Posts Thanks: 94 Thanked 93 Times in 62 Posts | | | Yes wrong thread..Lol, I'm not crazy. | 18th August 2008, 23:45 |  | :´) | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Germany, Berlin. Age: 19 Posts: 678 Groans: 3 Groaned at 17 Times in 11 Posts Thanks: 166 Thanked 186 Times in 104 Posts | | Agreed. There're only 2 reasons why he won it 8 times. The first one is doping the hell out of it without getting busted or the second reason is he got any physical problems. There's nothing else that could explain me his occur. | 20th August 2008, 01:21 | | | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 98 Groans: 1 Groaned at 1 Time in 1 Post Thanks: 58 Thanked 54 Times in 21 Posts | | My opinion on this is that it is pure ability and not doped at all, Mark Spitz won seven golds in the 1972 Olympics and also broke records and he was never accused of using drugs to this day, I can understand why some of you might be a bit skeptical as it was proven that the Chinese swim team in 1992,1996 and 2000 and also the east German woman's swim team in 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988 used performance enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone (HGH), Erythropoietin (EPO), Androgenic Anabolic Steroids (AAS), and Testosterone. I think that Phelps just has some tremendous athletic ability aside from the fact that he is double jointed and bends his feet at weird angles, when a swimmer has always had mediocre times and then suddenly gets a great event time then drugs would be suspect but if you guys take a look at phelps records as far back as 1999 you can see that he has always been pretty fast, records are made to be broken and it had to happen sometime.. 
Last edited by NoBotz : 20th August 2008 at 01:57 | | The following 2 users say Thank You to NoBotz for this useful post: | | 20th August 2008, 01:37 |  | Pro Cheat-Я | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: mp_beach Age: 22 Posts: 852 Groans: 5 Groaned at 2 Times in 2 Posts Thanks: 25 Thanked 126 Times in 57 Posts | | Quote: Originally Posted by Pansemuckl Pengu, IMHO he is cheating. There is no way a human beeing can do this. Same applies to the Chinese... its all doped. | About China, think about the consequences... | 20th August 2008, 04:07 | | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California, USA Posts: 312 Groans: 5 Groaned at 3 Times in 1 Post Thanks: 49 Thanked 270 Times in 85 Posts | | Quote: Originally Posted by iddqd About China, think about the consequences... | probably a simple bullet to the head, and then they would send a fee to his family for the cost of the bullet. | | The following user says Thank You to pengu for this useful post: | |  Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
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