This sport article called,"Michael Phelps: How swimming legend regained his 'immortality'" was written by Matt Majendie. Cnn news published this article on August 14.
Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, came out of retirement for the 2016 Rio Olympics and it is known that he changed the sport of swimming. After his final race in the 2016 Olympics,he earned 23 Olympic medals, yet most people say that is not his biggest accomplishment. Others say his biggest achievement is the people that he inspired. For example, he inspired 9 year old, Katie Ledecky, to achieve her dream of being a swimmer. 10 years later, she is a dominant swimmer and is in the 2016 Olympics. Another example is Joseph Schooling, who also had a dream to be a swimmer while he was younger, was inspired by Michael and was in the 2016 Olympics as first in the 100- meter dash. …show more content…
That's what I wanted to do. With the people in the sport now, I think you're seeing it." Even statistics show that he has been changing the sport of swimming, since he went to his first Olympics in 2004. Over the three past Olympics Phelps has competed in, the number of swimmers increased by 31%. One new swimmer, James Guy, is known as the world champion in the 200m dash and silver, lost to Phelps, in the 4x200m. Guy said," [Michael is] my hero -- one day I hope to be remembered like him. I'll remember that for the rest of my life. I just said to him, 'It's an honor to race you, you've inspired me for so many years,'" Phelps has retired and declared, "I'm not going four more years, and I'm standing by that. I didn't want to have a 'what if?' 20 years later but being able to close the door on this sport how I want to, that's why I'm happy now.” He also recently had a son born name Boomer Robert Phelps. Robert comes from his old coach, Bob Bowman, and his grandmother,
Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, came out of retirement for the 2016 Rio Olympics and it is known that he changed the sport of swimming. After his final race in the 2016 Olympics,he earned 23 Olympic medals, yet most people say that is not his biggest accomplishment. Others say his biggest achievement is the people that he inspired. For example, he inspired 9 year old, Katie Ledecky, to achieve her dream of being a swimmer. 10 years later, she is a dominant swimmer and is in the 2016 Olympics. Another example is Joseph Schooling, who also had a dream to be a swimmer while he was younger, was inspired by Michael and was in the 2016 Olympics as first in the 100- meter dash. …show more content…
That's what I wanted to do. With the people in the sport now, I think you're seeing it." Even statistics show that he has been changing the sport of swimming, since he went to his first Olympics in 2004. Over the three past Olympics Phelps has competed in, the number of swimmers increased by 31%. One new swimmer, James Guy, is known as the world champion in the 200m dash and silver, lost to Phelps, in the 4x200m. Guy said," [Michael is] my hero -- one day I hope to be remembered like him. I'll remember that for the rest of my life. I just said to him, 'It's an honor to race you, you've inspired me for so many years,'" Phelps has retired and declared, "I'm not going four more years, and I'm standing by that. I didn't want to have a 'what if?' 20 years later but being able to close the door on this sport how I want to, that's why I'm happy now.” He also recently had a son born name Boomer Robert Phelps. Robert comes from his old coach, Bob Bowman, and his grandmother,