BEIJING, Aug. 16 -- What can happen in a hundredth of a second? The beat of a hummingbird's wing, perhaps, or maybe sound moving across an imperceptible distance. Saturday morning here, at the Beijing Olympics, it was the difference between one man's hand touching an underwater wall, another man's... -
At the Wall, Phelps Has the Touch
BEIJING, Aug. 16 -- What can happen in a hundredth of a second? The beat of a hummingbird's wing, perhaps, or maybe sound moving across an imperceptible distance. Saturday morning here, at the Beijing Olympics, it was the difference between one man's hand touching an underwater wall, another man's...-
By Barry Svrluga