The Vox Box

Sun., Aug. 17, 2008

He Did It!!

Michael Phelps achieved his goal of eight medals at one Olympics last night after the Americans won the 4x100m medley. Phelps also set an Olympic record for fastest butterfly split in the history of the 4x100m medley.

AP Photo
In the story by Alan Abrahamson on the NBCOlympics site, here, Phelps says about his goals for the 2008 Olympics "It all happened here this week".

My questions for this aren't great, I really just put it up because it's a historical moment.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you look up to Phelps?

Posted Aug. 17, 2008, 10:42 a.m.

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