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Phelps Makes It Eight

Over nine days in Beijing, Baltimore's Michael Phelps dominated the swimming competition, setting a new record by winning eight gold medals in a single Olympics.

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After Eight Gold Medals, What's Next For Phelps?
Article | BEIJING, Aug. 17 -- Michael Phelps will take the quaint moments with him, the games of spades and Risk against his dormmates in the Athletes' Village, the chance meeting with tennis star Rafael Nadal in which the swimming Olympian was the dumbstruck one. There was, too, the hug with his mother --...
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