Phelps Powers His Way Toward Olympic Record
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American Michael Phelps captured a  fourth gold at the Athens Games Thursday, keeping him on course  to be the first swimmer to win eight medals at a single  Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - Mark Spitz, you've got company after all. Michael Phelps matched Spitz's record of four individual gold medals in the Olympic pool with a stirring comeback in the 100-meter butterfly, nipping rival and teammate Ian Crocker at the wall Friday night...
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Michael Phelps posted the second-fastest time in heats of the 200-meter freestyle as the World Swimming Championships opened this morning at Conseco Fieldhouse.
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its  soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael  Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the  Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke. The  Olympics started its eighth day with 32 gold medals up for  grabs in what has been dubbed ~Super Saturday.~
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The United States won the men's 400-meter medley relay in world-record time Saturday night, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool.
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps took care of qualifying for the Olympic 200-meter freestyle semifinals Sunday, and then found out he had been added to the American team for the evening's 400 freestyle relay final. Phelps' rivals Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband and teammate Klete Keller were faster than the teenager in the 200 free preliminaries...
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Phelps tied the record for most medals by an athlete at a single Olympics, matching the achievement of Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin in the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps is done for the Olympics. Shortly after winning his fifth gold medal and seventh overall, Phelps told U.S...
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- American gold medalist Michael Phelps easily made it through his preliminary heat Thursday as the World Swimming Championships began Thursday in Indianapolis&#39; Conseco Fieldhouse.
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Six-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps started his ambitious quest for five world titles by winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Swim Championships in Indianapolis, the United States on Thursday.
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Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening night Thursday, giving the world's best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics.
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Michael Phelps got his eighth medal at  the Athens Olympics Saturday without even getting wet when the  United States broke the world record in the men's 4x100 meters  medley relay.
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Michael Phelps won the men's 200 meters  butterfly final at Athens on Tuesday to claim his second  Olympic gold medal.
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Michael Phelps clinched his fifth gold medal and became the first man since Mark Spitz to hold four individual Olympic swimming titles when he won the 100 meter butterfly final Friday.
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Michael Phelps won his second and third  Olympic golds for the United States on Tuesday, setting a new  Games record in the 200-meters butterfly before leading a 4 x  200 freestyle cliffhanger just over an hour later.
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Michael Phelps (U.S.) won the men's 200  meters butterfly swimming gold medal at the Olympics on  Tuesday.