Swimming great Michael Phelps appeared on the “Today” show on Thursday morning to champion a cause that many Americans can relate to: the struggle with anxiety and depression. The 33-year-old Baltimore native, who now resides in Arizona with his wife, Nicole, and their two sons, Boomer, 2, and...
Michael Phelps has kept himself in good shape since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The 32-year-old who was raised in Rodgers Forge and now lives in Arizona, rides a bike nearly every day and still works out at the pool at least twice a week. When he stepped on the scales this week, he weighed...
A new documentary about anxiety argues that everyone to some extent suffers from stress, nerves and social fear. And, to make their point, the filmmakers have enlisted as Exhibit A the most decorated Olympian in history. Michael Phelps appears in "Angst" to share his story of being bullied and...
But will he yell “O” during the national anthem? Arizona transplant and Baltimore native Michael Phelps will throw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the National League Division Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers in Phoenix on Monday night. Phelps retweeted the Diamondbacks’...
Michael Phelps is partnering with Crystal Lagoons, an international firm that makes large water amenities — essentially giant pools — for swimming, water sports and other uses. The Olympic swimming icon’s title with the company is “official world ambassador,” according to the firm’s website. Crystal...
Michael Phelps retired from competitive swimming last year with a record 23 Olympic gold medals. His latest swim — if you can call it that — was also record-breaking. Discovery Channel’s “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White,” in which the swimmer lost a race to a computer-generated shark,...
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A few months after embarrassing Adolf Hitler by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens traveled to Cuba for an exhibition race against Julio McCaw. Owens was the fastest runner in the world, but when he lined up against his opponent during halftime of a soccer...
On Wednesday, Discovery Channel released its first promo for the most anticipated man-against-beast competition since Takeru Kobayashi lost a hot-dog-eating contest to a Kodiak bear. And, man, is there a lot going on. The big takeaways: Michael Phelps’ much-hyped race against a great white shark...
Michael Phelps, the swimmer raised in Rodgers Forge and winner of more gold medals than any Olympian, always wanted to make a difference outside of the pool. His efforts have included increasing awareness about swimming in general, pool safety and doping in the sport, but more recently he has...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is probably going to run for president, so it would make sense that he start vetting all new associates. But this seems a little much.
As of next week, Michael Phelps and his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, will no longer hold a lease on Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center, the Mount Washington facility where Phelps developed into the greatest swimmer in the world. Phelps and Bowman moved to Arizona almost two years ago, after...
Rodgers Forge teenager breaks own world record
Michael Phelps got psyched up for his first gold medal by watching the movie Miracle. He is going to need one to meet the expectations that followed him from his home in Rodgers Forge to the Athens Olympics.Yesterday, he won a bronze medal as part of the U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay -- with his...
Swimming: Despite a third-place finish in the "Race of the Century," he could still be the first in his sport to win eight medals in one Olympics.
Md. swimmer rebounds in 200 butterfly, 800 relay
Marylander swims 100-meter butterfly today, remains on track to win 8 medals at Games
7th medal won, he hands teammate his relay slot
After 8 medals, Phelps has time off, chance to coach
First gold: 400 IM -- Aug. 10 Michael Phelps didn't feel like himself Sunday morning in China. In the ready room, just a few meters from the pool inside the 11,000-seat Water Cube, he sat in silence by himself, listening to music with his head down. Something was amiss. He looked, in every sense...
Second gold: 400 free relay -- Aug. 11
Third gold: 200 free -- Aug. 12
Fourth gold: 200 fly -- Aug. 13 Fifth gold: 800 free relay -- Aug. 13 He was breathing hard. His muscles were screaming. His goggles were full of water, and he couldn't see the walls. Michael Phelps was exhausted, and one of his competitors was closing fast. In the stands, his coach looked worried....
Sixth gold: 200 IM -- Aug. 15 "Gran, I am out to win," Michael Phelps once told his grandmother over a game of rummy. "Whether it's you or anybody else." The opponent doesn't actually matter. Sometimes it's Grandma. Sometimes it's a best friend one lane over in the practice pool. This time, it...
Seventh gold: 100 fly -- Aug. 16 So much history can be decided by fractions of a second in swimming. But never in the history of the sport has so much been at stake with so little time as there was today in the 100-meter butterfly. Michael Phelps should not have won. It looked, from every angle,...
Eighth gold: 400 medley relay -- Aug. 17 A frenzy of golden energy, Michael Phelps exited the pool, shaking water off his lithe and lean body. Onto the pool deck splashed the droplets -- those Baltimore roots, the memories from Greece and the immaculate show he had just put on in China. It all...
Redemption for French relay unit after loss to U.S. in Beijing
On the night in which Michael Phelps ascended to a truly Olympian peak, he never seemed closer to the ground. The machine-like swimmer, who seemed to run on motor rather than muscle and scooped up medals by the handful, had become an actual human being, one whose less than golden perfection made...
Baltimore native, who now has 20 medals, is first male swimmer to win gold in same event in three consecutive Olympics
Record-setting swimmer adds 21st career medal, 17th gold, by beating South Africa's Chad le Clos, Russia's Evgeny Korotyshkin
In medley relay, Baltimore swimmer wins 22nd medal, 18th gold
Michael Phelps added a 19th gold medal Sunday night to his ever-growing record haul.
Phelps captured his 20th career gold medal and 24th total Olympic medal
Michael Phelps came out on top, winning his fourth gold medal in Rio by winning the 200-meter individual medley, blowing away the field by completing the race in 1:54.66, more than two seconds faster than silver medalist Kosuke Hagino of Japan. Lochte had a rough race, finishing fifth and failing...
It was closing night Friday for the Maryland double feature that’s done bang-up business at the Olympic Aquatics Center.First up, Baltimore’s Michael Phelps sought his fourth consecutive gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly final, the last individual race of his 16-year Olympic career.A few minutes...
Michael Phelps, who has won more medals than any other Olympian, wasn’t looking to lose. And Phelps did not as part of the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday.