BEIJING Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Michael Phelps, a fingernail from history, lost. The dream of eight gold medals in one Olympics had dissolved into mere fantasy here on Saturday morning. In race No. 7, that crap-out number just before the lucky Chinese No. 8, Phelps failed by a... -
By the Smallest of Margins, a Magnificent Seventh for Phelps
BEIJING Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Michael Phelps, a fingernail from history, lost. The dream of eight gold medals in one Olympics had dissolved into mere fantasy here on Saturday morning. In race No. 7, that crap-out number just before the lucky Chinese No. 8, Phelps failed by a...-
By Thomas Boswell